On the Town
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Movie Reviews of On the Town
Movie Review: Happiest Movie Ever Made
Summary: 5 Stars
Four years after World War II, all the men are back and ready to get it on. What we call the baby boom! I love pre-feminist movies about human sexuality. On the Town is a movie about three sailors who are in New York, trying to meet girls. And they are singing and dancing. It is a happy, fun, amazing movie. I am so living in the wrong era. This is healthy sexuality. This movie can't exist in our era, because in our era aggression is bad. Young men are bad.
On the Town is a movie about sex, getting it on with your sexual opposite, like a caveman. Woo-hoo! Being open to love and feeling it. It's a passionate movie, an aggressive movie, a romantic movie. It's a movie for young men feeling their oats. This film is pre-feminist and unapologetically shows sexual pursuit as a good thing. Man's aggressive chase after woman is seen as happy and fun and normal. If you're not chasing after a woman, she's gonna chase after you.
Once feminism hit, with its war on masculinity and its policing of sexuality, art followed orders or rebelled. Our musicals became gay or girly. Screwball comedies became talky chick flicks. And there was a massive, unspoken revolt by men from music and dance in film. What do we watch? Violent movies. Taxi Driver or Kill Bill. Unhealthy, aggressive, homicidally violent movies. The attempt to neuter men has made our art more violent. On the Town is from a happier time.
On the Town is a musical, but it's not a chick flick. It's aggressive and fun. And why not? Dancers are amazing athletes. Capturing Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire on film is a miracle, like seeing Jackie Chan in his prime, or Buster Keaton. You have to train for years and years to get your body to be so good at something. So don't put lame ass John Travolta or Burt Reynolds or Dolly Parton or Olivia Newton-John out there and pretend like you've made some amazing musical. Just cause you're dancing doesn't mean you rock.
What's awesome about this movie is the innocence of it, how nice its assumptions are. Now, 1949 was a pretty cynical year. You know it had to be, four years after the atom bomb and the Holocaust. Sometimes you throw art out there to show what life can be. What it should be. And On the Town is like that. Fun and happy and cool. My vote for the happiest movie ever made.
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Movie Review: Breakthrough
Summary: 5 Stars
"On the Town" was truly a breakthrough movie which revolutionised the movie musical. From that wonderful opening with the harbour man walking to work on the real New York docks, singing in his bass voice his chant against early rising, you know you are in for something special. And it really does not date, partly because of the top level performances from both the leads and the supporting players. Who for example could ever forget Alice Pearce's cameo of Lucy Schmeiler. And of course it was perhaps the first time that we became aware of Gene Kelly's fabulous dancing and choreography, so wonderfully partnered by Vera Ellen. It is perhaps the first time that a movie musical really was "a movie" creation and not an adaption of a theatrical form, even though the inspiration was Jerome Robin's ballet "Fancy Free". "On the Town" was followed by two more Gene Kelly works which have become classics of their genre "An American in Paris" and "Singing in the Rain".Movie Review: says 'Nick'
Summary: 5 Stars
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Sit back and enjoy the entertainment. Kelly, Ellen. & Miller
at their dancing best. Storyline is fun. Sinatra fun to watch.
Suporting cast top notch. What not to like. The music, dancing
singing & comedy plus Technicolor ties it all together in a film
classic. Did you ever wonder what made these entertainers so great.
Watch and find out for yourself. Ther'e one of a kind.
Movie Review: Glad I Found "On The Town"
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, they don't make um like they use to. Fun film to watch. The singing and dancing outstanding. All the ladies were fun to look at but of special note is Ann Miller. I thought she was extremely beautiful and her dance numbers delightful and sexy. This film has more energy than most films made today and it never lets up. The music and lyrics A+ so much so that I'm buying the soundtrack. This movie is made with such quality and boy does it show.Movie Review: On the Town DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
This energizing movie is in the grand tradition of MGM musicals and features singing and dancing that is timeless. There is a corniness to the plot and dialogue that is actually quite appealing compared to today's gritty fare, especially if you grew up in that era.