Fantastic...

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2000)

This is perhaps the greatest movie musical ever made -- probably because Gene Kelly was such a perfectionist (Debbie Reynolds tells a great story about how they shot the scene where they tip over the sofa in the dance number for "Good Morning" for hours and wound up using the first take).
Anyway, the movie has everything, great songs, bold use of Technicolor, great acting/comedy and, above all, great dancing. And it even pokes fun at the movie business and the studio system.
Even though Gene and Debbie are the "shimmering, glowing star[s] in the cinema firmament," Jean Hagen and Donald O'Connor steal the show with some of the best comedy lines ever written.