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- 1976
- G
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 6 m
- 1976
- G
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 6 m
Summary The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
Directed By: Gene Kelly
Written By: Leonard Gershe
- 1976
- G
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 6 m
- 1976
- G
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 2 h 6 m
That's Entertainment, Part II
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Summary The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
Directed By: Gene Kelly
Written By: Leonard Gershe
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Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
67
67% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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That's Entertainment, Part II is a knockout. The very handsome and polished sequel to That's Entertainment! transforms excerpts from perhaps $100 million worth of classic Metro library footage into a billion dollars worth of fun, excitement, amusement, escapism, fantasy, nostalgia and happiness.
The original song-and-dance formula is diluted, however, by a dozen or more comedy scenes (with the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Hepburn and Tracy, Abbott and Costello, and others). But they are so wisely chosen, sharply edited, and outright funny that the overall entertainment level remains high.
Narrator-hosts Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly offer more than routine continuity with their timeless class and superb timing in their first film appearance together since the 1946 Ziegfeld Follies. [26 Jun 1992, p.F22]
There's some really fine stuff here, and Part Two isn't afraid to poke fun when it's appropriate.
Part 2 has been compiled with the kind of intelligence and affection that allow us to get some purchase on the Hollywood history made by M-G-M without spending our whole lives at the job.
Assembled by Gene Kelly, it jerks and sputters along through an overedited collection of songs, dances, comedy routines, and dramatic excerpts, with a strong tendency toward camp. Gene should know better.
The juxtaposition of clips is mindless; and between the indigestible chunks come newly-filmed scenes with Kelly and Astaire, which manage to be even worse than some of the clips. And their asinine commentary damagingly intrudes into the numbers.
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Production Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM),
Polyphony Digital
Release Date May 17, 1976
Duration 2 h 6 m
Rating G
Genres
Tagline The greatest entertainment since "That's Entertainment!"
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
American Cinema Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
