Product: The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection (Babes in Arms / Babes on Broadway / Girl Crazy / Strike Up the Band) (2007)
Rating: 4.0
Relics of the classic age
MGM had great stars like Judy Garland. They had great music writers like the Gershwin brothers and others. They had great silky black and white photography, sharp as any DVD without the color. What they didn't have was great plots. These movies were little throwaways, a Saturday afternoon's entertainment meant to be changed every week. Babes on Broadway starts pretty well, and ends with a hideous blackface routine that is supposed to "make" the team of kids on Broadway. Times have changed.