Yet another Paramount Studios all star get together to boost profits. Top billing for Lake in a sappy movie with less song n dance than you'd expect from that title. That opening is initially amazing as they printed the credits on glass and interleaved them swinging into frame between parades of singers. At first it's seamless to the point that it looks like a post production effect but as it goes on the camera position and lighting reveal the edges of the glass as it swings and spoils the illusion.
After the plot settles in you get shades of Sullivan's Travels in the very thinnest sense including a rich guy pretending he isn't plot and people falling into swimming pools.Lake doesn't have a lot to do but what she does is just fine, mostly popping up for dialogue that shifts things forward but little else. Song n dance in films like these often feel like padding to me. It fills the run time but ultimately if you remove it the plot remains unchanged.. so why bother.
Author: Mark R Nash (Wales, UK)