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Title: Boring
Review: I love old movies, but am not a big fan of musicals. However, this wasn't even a very good musical in my opinion. Danny Kaye is brilliant in anything he does, and Rosemary Clooney was charming as always, but it seemed like the entire second half of the movie was dedicated to Vera Ellen's unremarkable dancing skills. The songs were kind of boring, and the dancing sequences in the second half are only mildly less interesting than a drum solo. The story itself could have been interesting, but they chose to spend more time on the dancing and singing than the actual story, so it felt like a lot was missing in the overall feel of the movie. I have not yet seen "Holiday Inn," this movie's precursor (and from what I understand, pretty much the same movie), but I think I would still recommend that one over this, which seems more like a A-list sketch comedy than an actual movie.
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