Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

NJeagle I am a great fan of Irene Dunne, and Astaire & Rogers, but even so I can't help but think that the three star rating this movie gets on AllRovi is nothing short of inept.The cast are all terrific, and wonderful songs by Jerome Kern, beautiful dancing from Astaire & Rogers, and stylish sets and clothes combine to make this gem great fun from beginning to end. The three big dance numbers from Astaire & Rogers deserve all the usual superlatives, but just as delightful were two singing numbers from Ms. Dunne, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Lovely to Look At". (The latter winning the Oscar for Best Original Song, by the way.)For me, the 106 minutes flew by. Highly recommended.

mark.waltz This is a dream come true for lovers of those opulent 1930's musicals filled with romance, light comedy, beautiful songs, costumes, sets, and very attractive people. Slightly overlooked in the cannon of 1930's musicals, because of the greater popularity of the same year's "Top Hat" and the 1936 version of "Show Boat", this film adaption of the 1933 Broadway musical (by many of "Show Boat's" creators, including composer Jerome Kern) is a shear delight. While Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are billed over the title (along with Irene Dunne), they are secondary to the plot which focuses on Randolph Scott's romance with Dunne after he inherits the most prestigious house of fashion in Paris from his late Aunt. Dunne, who would star in the 1936 version of "Show Boat", is gorgeous as the right-hand woman to the aunt (Helen Westley) and must face changes when Scott takes over. She sings the show's ballads most beautifully, most notably "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes".Fred and Ginger ably handle the dance numbers (which includes "I Won't Dance" and Rogers' solo, "I'll Be Hard to Handle") and provide strong comic support. That wonderful grand dame Helen Westley is both funny and touching as Scott's aunt, and her final scene (with Dunne singing the beautiful "Yesterdays") is tear-jerking. Water, not smoke, gets in your eyes. Top it off with an opulent fashion show (featuring a certain future TV redhead named Lucy) for an art deco lover's dream come true, and you end up with one of the most outstanding movie musicals of the 1930's. It lacks the influence of the ground-breaking "Show Boat" in the history of musical theater, but provides so much more in other areas.

Claudio Carvalho Huckleberry Haines (Fred Astaire) and his band, the Wabash Indianians, arrive at Le Havre, in France, for a season in a Russian nightclub. However, the owner Alexander Petrovitch Moskovich Voyda (Luis Alberni) expects the arrival of an Indian band and he calls off their contract.Haines and the band head to Paris, and his friend John Kent (Randolph Scott) decides to visit his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashion house Roberta, to use her influence to find a work for the band. John meets the manager Stephanie (Irene Dunne) and they immediately feel attracted for each other. Huck Haines meets in the Roberta's salon his old friend Liz with the artistic identity of Comtesse Scharwenka (Ginger Rogers) and she helps him to get a job with Voyda. When Aunt Minnie passes away, John Kent is the heir of her fortune and also Roberta. However he decides to give the fashion house for Stephanie, but she proposes a partnership between them two. But when John's old passion, the gold digger Sophie Teale (Claire Dodd) seeks out John, the infatuated Stephanie decides to leave the business and travel abroad with the Russian Prince Ladislaw (Victor Varconi)."Roberta" is an adorable musical with one of the most beautiful songs of the cinema ever. With music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Otto A. Harbach, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is performed by Irene Dunne. The plot is naive, but the musical numbers, the dances and the fashion parade are delightful. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Roberta"

eyesour Fashions change. If you only thought so once, you'd know it after seeing this. Let's be frank, honest and earnest: it's a totally unco-ordinated weird and utterly ghastly mess. I amazed myself by sitting through the whole thing from beginning to end. I'm certainly not going to do so again. But I may, nevertheless, pick out all the bits with delightful, adorable, heart-warming Ginger, who is just the most wonderful gal that ever was. She always makes me feel good within seconds of her appearance. Astaire would be much, much less without her. Not that anyone would admit it. I had to look up Irene Dunne on Wikipedia, and was stunned at the career she'd had. Almost as stunned as to discover that she'd had any career at all. The clothes in the fashion parades were slightly astonishing, I'll give them that. I expect to see some of them next season, worn by Gaga, however, or Bonkers, or someone similar. Just a word on the story: perfectly and completely idiotic. Dialogue script and acting: wooden and dreadful. Direction: which way did it go? Rogers and Astaire? Heroic. Great, against all odds. Roberta? Flag Hippo?