ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Burkettonhe This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

onlykatol Disturbed by the song Yes, Indeedy. I was watching the movie today 07/04/2017. In listening to the lyrics I realized for an "upbeat" tune it is pretty perverse. One stanza sings of pedophilia and another of suicide .... Liars or not this is a pretty disgusting attitude to be in such a popular film.

writers_reign The second of three musicals pairing Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, technically it's a musical comedy but one without laughs and a third- rate score by the vastly over-rated Comden and Green with insipid music by Roger Edens who clearly had some kind of clout at MGM given the amount of musicals he got a credit on - the same three ho hum writers were also credited with 'additional' songs for On The Town, made more or less back-to-back with this leaving Anchors Aweigh as the only one of the three with a decent score, not really surprising inasmuch as it was the work of real songwriters, Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. This entry is also dragged down by a hokey plot and though I've yet to see the much maligned and allegedly risible Kissing Bandit it'll have to go some to beat this piece of cheese.

richard-1787 You might imagine, looking at the title of this movie, that it has something to do with baseball. You would be wrong. It's yet another Hollywood musical about vaudeville performers. Once in a blue moon two of them step on a baseball diamond, but nothing ever comes of it.You might also, looking at the list of those involved in the creation of this movie - director Busby Berkeley, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, with musical numbers staged by Stanley Donen - imagine that this would be a great musical. You would, again, be wrong, unfortunately. All those individuals were, at one time or another, involved in the creation of some of the greatest American movie musicals, but this certainly isn't one of them.In fact, alas, it's pretty much of a dud. There isn't a memorable musical number in it, the choreography is nothing special, and the plot is both obvious and uninteresting.I sat through the whole thing, hoping something would get better, but it never did.I suggest you don't bother.

jotix100 This 1949 MGM musical came out in April of 1949, a mere eight months before than "On the Town", which was a much better film. Not having seen it, we took the opportunity when it showed on a classic cable channel recently. Although we were not disappointed, this musical was not in the same league of other great productions of the studio, something hard to imagine by the talented people involved in the making of the movie.This was the second of the three films that Frank Sinatra made with Gene Kelly. Mr. Sinatra played the naive Dennis Ryan, a ball player of the Wolves, recently bequeathed to K.C. Higgins, who turned out to be a lady. Gene Kelly appeared as Eddie O'Brian, a more mature player that acts as the guide of the less experienced Dennis. Jules Mushkin is also reunited with his two partners as the affable Nat Goldberg. The other female lead is Betty Garrett, who shows what she was capable of doing in a film. There is also Edward Arnold, one of the best character actors of that era, playing a gambler.There are songs and dance routines, as befitting a movie of this genre, but aside from the title song, none of the others heard on the picture stays with the viewer after it is over. It is surprising that the musical was directed by a master choreographer, Busby Berkeley, who only provides with one big production number that takes place in the clambake."Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a pleasant movie to sit through, but it is not an inspired piece of filmmaking.