A Real Yawner

I can see why the executive bigwigs shelved this movie for a few years before letting it out of the box. Its a real yawner, the music is okay and it worked good for background music when I was doing other things.
It was playing on TMC this morning(3/6/07) and I sat throught the first sequence, the circus one.. I am not fond of circus's but this really was more of a mime circus which made it more creepy. The old unrequited love theme. The Bracelot I skipped and tried to enjoy the cartoon sequence but it was overly long and I think if they cut out about 10 minutes it might have been enjoyable but as it was . :::yawns:::
The whole movie has no words but its still like watching a combination of old Gene Kelley movies, since the dance sequences have the same type of movements.. ie.. the one handed kick the feet.. the ballet type spin.. the bounce across the floor on your hands movement. All these appeared in numeous other Kelly movies and I guess it was supposed to be a sequel to American in Paris done a few years earlier.
I used to like Kelley's dances and not Astaire.. but watching them both as they aged, I found Astaire had a lot more class than Kelley. Astaire's movements were more abbreviated as he got older (like in Funny Face) yet there was a smoothness to his dance that made it look fresh.
Kelly never seemed to get out of his rut even the cartoon sequence looks like a re-hash of the Jerry cartoon he had done years earlier.
I suppose if you have nothing else to watch and you like dancing you will enjoy the movie. If you have other things to do just put up the volume and listen to the music it has a nice score.