I pray that I am never subject to a film as bad as this one. It had a little potential, but all of it was wasted. It is described by some as a screwball comedy, unfortunately every time they had an opportunity to do the screwball bit, the movie stopped and went in a different direction. I did not laugh during the entire 90 minutes (Thank God it only wasted that much of my life). One is constantly watching the film thinking: "Is the writer, or possibly the director, the dumbest person who ever lived? or Did they ever have to watch it?". After watching 75 minutes of a film that never went anywhere, we were now subject to the worst musical and dance sequences that celluloid has ever been wasted on.
We suffer through 15 minutes of choreography that would annoy an 8th grade dance instructor. It has been described as brilliant and unique, it is neither. I imagine many of the practice sessions were better done. I saw that it was the last of the pre-code big budget films, other than being the worst film ever made that is the only thing for which this film will ever be known
While watching through the interminably long end sequence, we are supposed to believe that this is a Broadway production, but there are so many inane camera gimmicks, that you know you are not watching something resembling a Broadway production, but something that comes across as a High School production which received a grade of D.
The acting in the movie is absolutely horrible. After watching the film, I was tempted to look up all the movies I had given 1's and 2's on before and elevate those votes to 3. This movie is really that HORRIBLE. I had noticed that for a big budget production it received ZERO Oscar nominations when they pretty much nominated every film that was released. I should have saw that as a sign. I caution anyone who has the fortune to read this before they are subjected to this film to watch or rent
anything else, even something like Police Academy 8 or Friday the 13th Part X.