"Uv cawss we tawk, doan ivverybuddy?"

Rating: 10/10 (10 July 1999)

The songs: Beautifully simple and almost artless. You can't make this stuff up! And they didn't, cleverly going back to "Broadway Melody of 1929" and other MGM tuners of that era. I can't think of anything that would work better.
The dances: Big, bold and brash. There's a reason Hollywood made seemingly a thousand backstagers: I can't imagine a natural story being served well by the numbers for "Fit as a Fiddle", "Singin in the Rain", and the Broadway number.
The comedy: What confidence and self-assuredness to bait us through the first ~20 minutes until Lina Lamont squawks "Uv cawss we tawk, doan ivverybuddy?" Sometimes the more sumptuous and MGM-ized a musical, the weaker the comedy content. Not here.