Awesome musical.

Rating: 10/10 (11 February 2010)

15/10.
My observations about this movie: Great dancing!!! My favorite the triple tap dance with Donald, Debbie and Gene: "Good Morning, Good Morning!", all dressed up in grays and light blues. I loved Debbie's blue high heeled tap shoes. They were just divine. This show-stopper was very powerful, lightning-fast-paced and highly energetic, and even done in the wee hours of that morning. When the three danced down the steps, and over the sofa, was totally awesome. The characters were deciding to turn "The Dueling Cavalier" into a musical.
I love musicals, and I always stand up for them. This was one of the greatest. Singing and dancing are my favorites, as you know.
I liked seeing Kathleen Freeman as the voice coach. The coach didn't quite succeed with the stubborn and air-headed Lina Lamont, however. We believe that Lina is really dumb, too, and Lina convinces us that education was never her cup of tea.
Gene was great acting the cad movie heartthrob, even though a negative character. I don't like it when he played this side of the character, being all selfish, boastful and thinking he was God's gift to women. Even in "The Pirate", he plays a smarmy so-and-so who is too fresh for Judy Garland's sensibilities, and such a jerk there again.
I better like Gene playing the wonderful human being, of course with a great set of tap dancing feet. Gene's "Singin' In the Rain" number in this movie is highly lauded, dancing around the lamppost and getting pneumonia during the filming, but it is my second favorite dance in the film after "Good Morning!" Other movies where I like Gene's characters are "On the Town" and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game".
My third favorite "dance" is with Donald and the cloth dummy. Too bad Donald didn't get a romantic part in this movie, like he did in "Call Me Madam", when he is interested in the Princess Royal and dances with her (Vera-Ellen / I thought, "Miss Turnstiles"!!, from "On the Town"!!). In "Singin' In the Rain", in the scene where Donald dodges all the two-by-fours and workmen traveling, I feel that this is a marvel in choreography and adaptation to props in the way. The fake hallway on the wall is excellent, as is the wall where Donald jumps through.
Debbie Reynolds was excellent. She was quite an energetic tap dancer, and a good singer.
Finally, retrogressing to the beginning, I like the early part where Donald and Gene are children and then dance partners, musicians and singers in Vaudeville.
15/10, actually, I repeat.