Maybe it's just so dated, but I was expecting to really enjoy this film...but I didn't. I found it "passable". Maybe it was that it takes place at an all-boy's college out in the desert. Maybe its that for most of the film there are only two females -- Judy Garland and Nancy Walker (with an early brief appearance by June Allyson...worth watching because her musical number seemed so "not-June"). It was well into the film before I found a musical number I really enjoyed -- Judy Garland singing "Embraceable You". The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra's arrangement of "Fascinating Rhythm" is extended and "socko"! And there is a rousing finale that really demonstrates the talent of Rooney and Garland. But beyond these few highlights, the plot's pretty thin, same old same old for Garland and Rooney...talented though they are.
Review of Girl Crazy
