Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The movie gives evidence of having been heavily edited, probably in a Cuisinart. A lot of individual shots do not match. Once in a while, someone breaks into song, suggesting that The Blue Bird may once have been a musical. Director George Cukor is one of the most urbane American...
Like its predecessor, That's Entertainment, Part 2 is heavy with show biz nostalgia that could be dispensed, like programs or refreshment, out in the lobby. The movie takes it for granted that everyone in the audience will grow misty-eyed over these snatches of glory past. What is...
Until the Hollywood musical finds another champion, it will be good-willed into a stupor by tributes like this one. There were wonderful moments, many on view here: Kelly spinning on roller skates in It's Always Fair Weather;
This musical whodunit provides an evening of innocently dotty merriment.
Any thoroughly unpretentious musical that refuses to take itself seriously drives some critics into attitudes of lofty, and sometimes bogus, condescension. They prefer to ponder the flatulent grandiosities of shows like Pacific Overtures, Rex, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.