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View All (485)audience reviews Alec B Cagney is so damn great here, which is honestly all that matters.Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars02/20/24 Full Review Sara B Incredible dancing, feel good, and patriotic. You can't help but get a little choked up at the end. And I can't even imagine dancing down stairs.Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars07/04/23 Full Review Shay C A nice glimpse into a bygone era. Wholesome, funny.Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars03/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Cagney is so damn great here, which is honestly all that matters.Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Has me hooked every time I hear the opening score. It's a grand movie, has a unique blend of stars, music, prescence. Creative. Only musical I like.Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars01/28/23 Full Review William L "I know I have talent, even if I am from Buffalo." Though Yankee Doodle Dandy is certainly a somewhat dated film, that line is incredibly funny even today. And how dare Joan Leslie say that, when today, December 20, 2020, the Bills are celebrating their first AFC East title after a quarter century. The film is inoffensive and packed with musical numbers, light on conflict, big on nostalgia, and nearly worshiping the American Dream in a way that is only slightly more subdued than Frank Capra. In other words, it was the perfect wartime distraction for the United States, filled with energy and diversion. It is also clearly a product of its time, with its reverent treatment of theatre in the manner that early film so often used, as if paying tribute to a more estimable medium (before box office receipts started to favor the screen, at least), not to mention the Vaudevillian blackface. What has aged well in this film is Cagney, who gives off charisma as easily as if he were walking down the street; his energy is infectious and has hardly gathered a speck of dust. His performance, while somewhat straightforward here compared to some of his more complex roles, is note-perfect and stands out against some of the rather rough performances of some of the less prominent supporting cast. Technically, it's a mixed bag, incorporating some of James Wong Howe's distinctive and creative cinematography, but arranged somewhat sloppily from a narrative standpoint, with rough pacing and long musical numbers that aren't integrated as neatly as they should have been. A popular film in its time whose star has dulled somewhat. (3/5)Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars12/20/20 Full Review Read all reviews
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