AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

jacobs-greenwood Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, and written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green whose story and screenplay earned them their second (and last) unrewarded Academy Award nomination, this average Musical picks up where On the Town (1949) left off, though it's not a sequel. André Previn's Score was also Oscar nominated.Gene Kelly stars as one of three World War II veterans who've returned to New York and their old bar hangout where its proprietor Tim (David Burns) casts doubt on the three keeping in touch and/or remaining friends as time goes by. Ted Riley (Kelly) challenges Tim's assertion as do the other two, Doug Hallerton (Dan Dailey) and Angie Valentine (Michael Kidd). So, they make a bet with Tim to return exactly 10 years later (October 11, 1955 at 12 noon), tearing a dollar bill into three pieces to remind each of their pledge, before going their separate ways.Cyd Charisse (who surprisingly doesn't dance with Kelly in this one), Dolores Gray, and Jay Flippen round out the cast.Ten years later, each of the war buddies actually does return, though Tim doesn't really recognize them as each of the old friends have undergone more than a physical change: educated Ted, who'd been the "most likely to succeed" with plans to become a lawyer or more, heartbroken that his sweetheart got married while he was serving his country, lived the high life partying & bar hopping with different women every night, gambled and lived day-to-day such that he's got no savings and his current gig, managing an up-and-coming boxer (Steve Mitchell, uncredited), needs to pan out for him; artist Doug, who'd hoped to become a famous painter one day, finds himself in a failing, childless marriage after selling out, settling for drawing caricatures for an advertising agency's campaigns; and blue collar Angie, the happiest of the three, who's running a roadside diner called the Cordon Bleu with his wife, with whom he has several young children.Needless to say, the reunion isn't a very happy one as the three discover they not only have nothing in common anymore but really don't like each other, or what they've become, either. Each begins to go their separate ways again before Jackie Leighton (Charisse), who works for the same ad agency as Doug, has an idea to exploit the soldiers' reunion as a replacement idea for Madeline Bradville's (Gray) radio show that night. Jackie's a successful working woman whose exceptional brain bores most men, and Madeline's an egotistical star who exploits common people for her human interest- type program.To keep the former friends occupied until the 11 PM radio show, sponsored by Klenzrite, Jackie's and Doug's boss, Mr. Fielding (Paul Maxey, uncredited), is assigned to keep the artist occupied while Madeline dines with Angie and Jackie takes Ted, who's surprised at her sudden interest given her earlier standoffish attitude towards him. She goes with him to the gym where (the film's best song & dance routine, "Baby, You Knock Me Out", featuring Charisse and the gym rats is performed) Ted learns from Rocky (Hal March, uncredited), his boxer's planned opponent that night, that mobster Charlie Culloran (Flippen) has fixed the fight.Meanwhile, Doug is getting drunk and making a mess of things at Mr. Fielding's house while Angie looks wistfully at the more upscale environs he's experiencing. Ted and Jackie have a heart-to-heart during which he learns that she'd been scorned once before also; she begins to see him in a new, more positive light too, which burns even brighter when Ted starts to live up to his old ideals and, with her help, stops his kid Mariacchi from participating in the fix.Everything leads to a madcap evening on Madeline's radio show beginning with each of the three former war buddies admitting to their disillusionment but ending much more positively as Ted, Doug and Angie brawl Culloran and his gang, who are eventually rounded up by the police. The amazingly collected and flexible radio hostess gets the program she wants, and the "boys" return arm in arm to Tim's bar where, he finally remembers them and, they win their $4 bet (kept overhead in a light fixture) to pay the tab. Angie stops putting on airs, Doug phones his wife who saw the show such that they're on the mend, and Jackie arrives to join Ted.

higherall7 Everything people say about the world is true. Granted it can be a dark place filled with viciousness and brutality, endless pain and unimaginable suffering. IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER, the little musical that could, makes its point resoundingly with comical numbers of song and dance. Somehow, the one anchor that you can always hold onto amidst all the cynicism and chicanery and corruption, is FRIENDSHIP. Friendship on any level, high or heavy-handed, soft pedaled or sold with Klenzrite, has the power to dispel the darkness and recharge the human condition with the zest it needs to keep on truckin'.That's it. Yes, it should be more involved that this and more complex, but it really isn't. Doug, Angie, and Ted sing their praises to friendship with no intention of keeping in touch in the intervening years, but vow to the doubtful bartender Tim that even ten years from now they will be as good a friends as they are now.This is a great film; not so much for its technical virtues, though the dance numbers are exhilarating; especially the garbage can number and the number Gene Kelly performs on roller skates, but because of its unabashed optimism about life. An optimism that is as quixotic as it is true to life. Right now I can see almost every scene in my mind's eye with the same sense of hilarity I felt when I first saw IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER. I love Cyd Charisse in this movie, taking the initiative away from Gene Kelly in the taxi cab by laying one on him and while he recoils in confusion getting a little work done. Doing her JEOPARDY contestant thing with the pugilists in Stillman's Gym and dancing her way into their hearts. Misquoting Shakespeare and being corrected by Kelly as he strolls coolly away. Manipulating Ted and his buddies onto the television show IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER with Ted's gangster pals in tow.This film has everything going for it and at the same time nothing at all. It is a walk through memory lane in triplicate for three devoted war chums who have nothing in common except when it comes to ducking for cover and standing up for each other in scrapes. It's about dreams that go up in smoke and reappear suddenly in a fist fist and a brawling free for all. It about wearing garbage can lids on your feet and a lampshade on your head while you're toweringly drunk and finding out you can't stand the guy you used to jump into foxholes with and you may need another ten years just to get over his revolting presence.Besides, we all got homes to go to so help Tim put the chairs up so that he can mop the place out one last time while he sings your favorite theme song about friendship to show he's finally got religion. Look around, boys, because it's Deja vu all over again, only this time Ted gets the girl to walk out into the darkness with him where the gangsters are waiting to settle old debts. It's still MIDNIGHT WITH MADELINE, but this city of little gray men really has a heart because IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER somewhere somehow in this crazy old world spinning and dancing to the throb of Manhattan and beyond.

K Bunck When I first watched "It's always fair weather" I expected it to be another 1950's typical Hollywood musical, and in some sense I was correct. Not being musically gifted myself, I find it hard to sit through an hour watching someone else sing, if I wanted that I would go to the opera. I don't mind musicals such as The Wizard of Oz, Mary Poppins, or Charlie and the Chocolate factory, since I've never had the chance or the inclination to watch "Singing in the Rain" I really can't compare performances. In the movie, three soldiers returning from World War II, promise to meet up in their favorite bar, ten years down the road. Ignoring the bartenders scoffs, that they will never remember, they make a pact… each vowing to return with their dreams played out. Ten years pass, and the waited day arrives, only one of the three seems to have remembered, the other two through a series of luck, happen to be in the city that exact day, and head to the bar. It seems to me that the one who purposely came back, may have remembered because he wanted to show his two friends, that he, in his simple married life, has everything he ever dreamed of. His two friends, who had forgotten about the meeting, may have subliminally been making the decision not to show up, since their life was not the way they had hoped it would be ten years ago. The show also seems to project the fear that Hollywood had of television in the early half of the twentieth century, portraying the television show (on which the friends are going to be reunited) as a frivolous show, headed by a bunch of money/publicity hungry people. Quite like Hollywood at the same time, if truth be told. This portrayal shows how Hollywood felt threatened by the emergence of television and television show.

wadih_ws Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's It's Always Fair Weather is a musical unlike any other. This film contains not just comedy, but drama as well in this musical. This film was a hilarious, but at certain points in the film they have serious moments to make it that this movie isn't all comedy and no plot. This film is about three GI's who go to a bar to celebrate that they are done with serving in the military and it will be their last day together. At the bar they make a bet with the bar tender that in ten years they will meet at this same bar and still be best of friends. Ten years come and the GIs meet once again, but to find out how there lives have completely changed and that time apart had them to talking about their life after the war, but they all seemed to irritate one another, and problems grow and grow and throughout the movie they end up on a show that showed the people about their bet and all three of them end up fighting against the mob who fixes boxing matches, goes on and they then realized why they were best friends and go on to be best friends again and go celebrate at the bar from the beginning. This movie was directed as well as choreographed very nice, all the dances and songs were perfect for each other. This movie was very enjoyable to me and if you like musicals that include bar fights this may be a good choice for you to watch. Because this films both has a lot of fun for the whole family to watch. Overall this movie was enjoyable to watch, and it honestly couldn't have been much better than it already is.