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Title: A must see, but not everyone's favorite
Review: I've never been a huge Vincente Minnelli fan and "The Band Wagon" is a good example of why. His pacing is sometimes sluggish and this one takes a while to get off the ground. When it does (more than 20 minutes in - when Cyd Charisse's character enters the film) it's occasionally breathtakingly brilliant. Astaire and Charisse's pairings are cinematic gold. It's too bad they aren't teamed enough. And if they'd kept Cyd's "Two-faced Woman" (seen in "That's Entertainment III") in the final cut and dropped "Triplets" or "I Love Louisa" the film would have been even better. Watch it by all means but remember it's a matter of taste to some.
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