It was predictable that a second selection of highlights from MGM musicals would look somewhat dimmer than the first. But the impression of scraping-the-bottom is needlessly underlined by padding Part II with irrelevancies: an homage to the unmusical team of Tracy and Hepburn, Garbo's clumsy dance in Two-Faced Woman, a Marx Brothers clip (not, thank God, a musical number by Harpo or Chico, but rather the stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera), and the inane patter written for the fatigued "hosts," Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly ("Fred, do you remember those wonderful parties when Judy would get up and sing this song?"). In order to protect MGM's standing as the mecca of musicals, this movie bans all mention of other studios, which is perhaps understandable; but it also, whenever it can, takes credit for stars who properly belong to those unmentionable other studios (as in the first That's Entertainment, there are two songs from Paramount's Bing Crosby, who appeared in a grand total of two MGM musicals, twenty-five years apart). Overall, the movie is bad on organization and skimpy on information; but in spite of everything, it contains a number of memorable moments: Gene Kelly on rollerskates in It's Always Fair Weather, Rooney and Garland at a dude ranch in Girl Crazy, Eleanor Powell in the battleship finale of Born to Dance, and, the two giddiest of the lot, Esther Williams waterskiing in Easy to Love and Betty Hutton sharpshooting on horseback in Annie Get Your Gun. (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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