How do you review a movie that's quite literally off the charts?

Rating: 10/10 (23 August 2015)

To be successful, a musical needs to have good musical numbers well performed. This movie has that, often in spades.
In addition, it has one of the cleverest, most brilliant scripts ever written for a Hollywood movie, musical or otherwise, and directors who know how to realize it to its fullest potential.
And two male stars that are, themselves, so far off the charts that we're lucky if we can appreciate at least part of their astounding talent. Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor dance as well as any dancers have ever danced on film, and play off each other like the best of vaudeville teams. Debby Reynolds certainly holds up her end, but it's Kelly and O'Connor, and the directing of Kelly and Donan, that transform what would have been a first-rate musical into what is, indeed, probably the best musical ever made.
Watch it once. Watch it multiple times. Each time you will marvel more at its brilliance.
What a picture!