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Summary: Why isn't Invitation to the Dance on DVD?
Comment: Gene Kelly was one of the world's most innovative dancers and this movie is proof thereof. It should be in DVD format. This is a part of my and all baby-boomers youth; it showed us how imagination can be found in so many unsuspected forms. This is a beautiful movie and I want to see it on DVD. PLEASE!
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Summary: Why not on DVD yet?
Comment: This is one of the greatest musicals. Why is not on DVD yet?? I hope MGM put it on DVD soon. It is a must!!!
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Summary: WHERE IS THE DVD ??? !!!!!
Comment: Once again we are forgotten !!! By us I mean all of the people that love musicals from this era. How many of these great MGM films are not getting the treatment they deserve? Why do we have to beg over and over again for Warner to get with the times and re-master this and so many other musicals on DVD? For Gods sake its 2007 guys!!!! Nobody has VHS anymore!!!
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Summary: Not what I expected, but good just the same
Comment: I'm torn between giving this five stars or four stars. I'm settling on five because it's Gene Kelly and because I just love him. I also think five stars is fair because this film is fifty years old. Some of the stuff that he does as director might seem fairly pedestrian to us but we have to remember that when he was doing it it was pretty much brand new. What an innovator! The film itself consists of three thirty minute minifilms; the stories are all told through dance, music, and mime with no spoken words. The first one was the least enjoyable of the three, IMO. It's mostly ballet and while Gene does do some dancing, you don't get to enjoy him the way you do in other films. For one thing, he's almost unrecognizable under all that white face paint; I typically don't care for costumes and masks and such. I'm also not a big fan of mime and this segment relies on it more than any of the others. The second segment was both funny and sad as it follows the path of an anniversary bracelet from one owner to the next. The best parts to this segment involve the crooner whose "singing" just slays the ladies. Gene was really having fun when he directed this scene. I also enjoyed the part with the pianist and the hat check girl who turns out to be quite a dancer with quite a pair of gams. You have to be very patient to get to Gene in this one; he doesn't appear until nearly the end but it is worth the wait. He does a very ... dance with a woman who literally lights his fire. His dancing is ..., but he really lets the female shine; she clearly has the lead here. (Throughout this entire film it is clear that Gene was content to let others have lots of screen time.)
The last segment is easily the most enjoyable. Is it any wonder that Gene has the most screen time in this one and does the most dancing? He plays a sailor who finds a magic lamp with a little boy genie inside of it. The two of them literally step into the pages of a fairy tale and encounter animated dancing dragons, harem girls, and swashbuckling villains. Gene dances with all of them at one point or another, and it's really rather neat to see the way he and the cartoons are perfect mirrors of each other - how he carries out their steps and they carry out his and vice versa. It's filled with whimsy and though it's fifty years old it manages to seem rather fresh. I especially enjoy the candy-coated flight of fancy when he and one of the harem girls frolic through flowery meadows. The entire film is lovely to look at and it's got Gene Kelly. Who could ask for anything more?
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Summary: A great film!
Comment: I highly recommend this musical. The costumes are beautiful and the dancing is wonderful! I'd give it ten stars if I could. Gene Kelly is wonderful in it.
