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Title: Send in the second-stringers! MGM's bench warmers.
Review: Clearly Metro went to the well once too often to fetch this second-rate complilation of supposed "magical musical moments" from the studio's storied past. No matter how you slice it Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Howard Keel, Donald O'Connor or Cyd Charisse just can't hold a candle to Garland, Kelly or Astaire. And how many times must we hear how much Mickey Rooney still misses Judy Garland? He covered his undying devotion much more eloquently twenty years earlier in Part 1. Get grief therapy, Mick. On that note, the film only comes to life when discarded footage of Garland in "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Easter Parade" is highlighted. It only serves to remind viewers that out-takes of Judy is infinitely better than intact numbers from the rest of the sub-par cast. The next time MGM has a garage sale of its film vaults, they should at least have more to offer than the "dollar table" items.
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