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  Review by Bre ★★★★½

  Fred Astaire singing the words Franchot Tone? Consider me shook.

  Watching Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire dance and sing together- especially at the end in front of images of so many classic actors and actresses- is the most magical thing. Both clearly much older than the clips of themselves they showed, they still had that magic. They are timeless, and they will always live on in the joy they brought. It is difficult to put that feeling into words, but to watch two masters of their craft from different eras come together is just... it left me grinning, with tears streaming down my face. That's a feeling we classic film fans are so privileged to have and understand. Trying to describe it is near impossible, but the title gets it right- that's entertainment.

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★

  52/100

  As unnecessary as most sequels. Clip order is even more schizophrenic than in the original—at one point that horrific Band Wagon routine with Astaire and Co. as squabbling babies is followed by Judy Garland singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," ow my neck!—and while it's touching to see Astaire and Kelly dancing together (for the second and last time ever, at least on film) at age 77 and 64 respectively, their interstitial banter is mostly just painful to watch. Tossing in a few classic comedy routines and a tribute to Tracy and Hepburn just makes the whole thing feel that much more random and pointless. It's a bad film in almost every way, but there's still too much footage from good films for the experience to be unpleasant.

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  Review by Erin 🍺 ★★★

  This is edited so strangely

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  Review by theironcupcake ★★★★ 1

  🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳

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  Review by Jim Dooley ★★★★

  Being in the throes of a rather melancholy day, I remembered how much my spirits had been lifted by THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT.  So, onward to THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT, PART II.
    
  While I didn’t thoroughly enjoy the second film as much as the first, it did improve my day considerably.  So many of MGM’s famous highlights were in the first film that this second one is something of a “second string-er.”  There are still many excellent numbers in it … who can complain that with “The Trolley Song” featured in the first film, we’re left with “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” in this one? … and there are non-musical scenes incorporated, too.
    
  One immense improvement in this one is having…

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  Review by nora ★★½

  i already wrote about how pissed i am at gene kelly for not only slandering john gilbert in his movie and but then also neglecting to mention him at all in the THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT that he directed. on top of that though he also made me watch multiple maurice chevalier sequences! what the fuck gene stop it!

  however i believe wholeheartedly that he just made this so that he’d have an excuse to dance with his old buddy fred astaire again. i don’t fault him for that. they’re very cute. also i need to see IT’S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER because of that tap dancing on roller skates nonsense.

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  Review by margot

  good background noise for when you’re completely redoing your entire animal crossing island

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  Review by Devan Scott ★★★★★

  • Somehow both droningly one-note (literally all of the Kelly/Astaire framing material is sung as a parody of the title song, and it's *exactly* as monotonous as that sounds) and bafflingly unfocused: there are significant stretches here that scarcely involve musicals! What gives!

  • The first film was almost certainly never conceived with sequels in mind, so of course they completely shot their wad in terms of archival footage meaning that this is basically a bunch of b-sides. There's some impressive stuff here, but the battering average just tanks in terms of spectacle.

  • The 77-year-old Astaire clearly out-dances the 64-year-old Kelly. Just saying.

  • It's cute that they let Kelly do a whole completely tangential travelogue on his beloved Paris just because.

  • FINALLY SOME MERRY WIDOW CONTENT!!! ALL IS FORGIVEN! FIVE STARS BY PROXY!!! YOU HEARD IT HERE FOLKS!!!!!!! THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!!!!!

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  Review by Anna ★★★★★

  LOOK AT 70+ YEAR OLD FRED ASTAIRE DANCE GO GRANDPA GO

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  Review by 𝔸ℕℕ𝔸 ★★★½

  Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly: THAAAAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!
  me after 2 hours of this: [singing] THAAAAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!

  It is really easy to poke holes in this pre-Youtube era compilation of MGM movie clips (mostly musicals) ... too much focus on Astaire, Kelly, Garland; weird almost omission of Ginger Rogers; lack of flow/cohesion in presenting clips; not enough commentary(?), etc etc.

  But you know what?

  Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly are that good that this show could just be clips from just their movies. Gene Kelly on skates? Beautiful. Gene Kelly outdancing every other dancer and making them look like stiffs? Yeah, that happened in like every. single. clip. Perhaps his only match is Fred Astaire who was still very sprightly in…

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  Review by Scott Huston ★★★½

  Release date May 17th 1976

  So many “I remember that” and some “I forgot about that” moments.
  One thing that slipped my memory was how great a dancer Eleanor Powell was!!!
  Also I need to get around to seeing a Jeanette MacDonald & Eddie Nelson movie some year.
  Fred Astaire with this , his last on film Dance routine .

  I don’t know what Judy Garland has or how she does it? But she packs an emotional punch into everything she does.

  When Kelly and Sinatra dance it is easy to spot the singer.
  The 1974 part one version got all the best A-roll material, but this is still an enjoyable film of film reviews.

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  Review by Jim Morrow ★★½

  "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" would have been a good subtitle. It's no match for the original, and not nearly as entertaining as Part 3, but it had a very tough act to follow. Maybe they should have concentrated on more of the non-musical moments instead of ones that remind us that they already covered the best. The staged intervals with Astaire and Kelly are nice, but far from memorable. I liked the more casual links from the first film much more.
  All of the classic Astaire/Rogers film were done at RKO, so the sole MGM film was the reunion film "The Barclays of Broadway" which is nice, but it won't make you forget that all those classic…