Most people have their favorite eras for musicals. Some like all or none, regardless of the type of music and dancing. For me, I really enjoyed the 1930s and 1940s which featured tap dancers and great duos, beginning with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
I preface my review with those marks because it the '50s that made me first start losing interest in musicals. The tap dancing disappeared and some of the female singing stars, such as Jane Powell in this movie, wee almost operatic with their soprano voices. I just don't like it, nor most of the songs in this musical.
I might have endured it better, too, if all the male characters in here weren't so stupid. That was just plain insulting and not humorous, just dumb. I could put up with some of Astaire's stupid characters just to see his or Ginger's dancing but there was no one in here to compensate for this insipid dialog.
I preface my review with those marks because it the '50s that made me first start losing interest in musicals. The tap dancing disappeared and some of the female singing stars, such as Jane Powell in this movie, wee almost operatic with their soprano voices. I just don't like it, nor most of the songs in this musical.
I might have endured it better, too, if all the male characters in here weren't so stupid. That was just plain insulting and not humorous, just dumb. I could put up with some of Astaire's stupid characters just to see his or Ginger's dancing but there was no one in here to compensate for this insipid dialog.