Worth viewing for the great, lengthy clips from classic MGM musicals, but there's a bit of a sting as well -- when (for example) Fred Astaire walks through a crumbling set that was used for The Band Wagon, the subtext is clear: this shit is over, yo. It aint coming back. Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted, and here's the document-cum-obituary that confirms its existence. (Oh sure, we can pretend that it continues on with the next generation -- Liza Minnelli! -- but Cabaret was two years ago.) Bonus points for excerpts from the work of Busby Berkeley, who apparently was a Surrealist on the level of Dali. More bonus points for the Esther Williams retrospective, when the title of the movie temporarily becomes That's Puzzling!.
Where we saw it: tv | We deign to rate it: 70 outta 100