That was an excellent one.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Another wonderful golden age Garland/Rooney musical with Judy Garland's fabulous talent and beauty. I also loved the first song without Judy with Micky at the club with June Allyson and the stage girls singing "Treat me rough". This was June Allyson's debut and she was wonderful here. It was a different kind of role from some of her films later on such as "Good news" and as Glen's wife in "The Glen Miller story". Mickey was a clubbing swinging bachelor, much againced his father's will, who sends him to a small but rough all male college out in the wild west. Judy is the only female out there as the college mail carrier. There's more of Judy's sweet wonderful singing in the picture, especially "Embraceable you". Also great was "I got Rhythm", and the tear jerker " But not for me". I also loved Judy's sweet laughter during the broken down car scene and the scenes when she is watching Mickey trying to ride a horse and then hitch rides in other ways because he doesn't know how to ride one. Judy's talking roles are quirky and humorous, such as the scene when the cowboy is asking her to marry him (Judy after he very casually pops the question: "look, you don't go ask a girl to marry you in the same way you walk into a store and ask for a coffee grinder. You don't say it like 'nice weather we're having, will you marry me?'"). The coffee grinder made its way to be a topic in this film. When Mickey was with Judy by the broken down car on the road and he asked her what she was doing, she sarcastically said " grinding coffee". I remember from the 2002 biopic film "Judy Garland, me and my shadows" how Judy had a breakdown during filming of "I got rhythm" due to Busby Berkeley pushing her way too hard. I read how Busby was a little easier to get along with during the early-mid 1930s films "Gold diggers", "Dames", etc. I read that he went through sone traumatic events during the late 1930s that made him more bitter, especially his killing two people during a road accident, which had him initailly tried for murder until finally getting aquitted after three trials. This all happened a few months after finishing the great film "Gold diggers 35", which was his last wonderful 1930s film before directing a few not so good films "Gold diggers Paris", "Hollywood hotel", and "Varsity show". However, Busby's early 1940s films with Judy were wonderful. He still had that magic after all. Those three not so good films as his I listed above were made before he was aquitted and was able to relax a bit more again, and made his Judy/Mickey backyard musicals. "Girl crazy" was another film with that simple innocence, sweetness, simplicity and charm we just don't have anymore.

Danny (Mickey Rooney)is a student from Yale who spends his time and his father's dollars in New York City, surrounded by the most beautiful women Hollywood can find. He's the toast of the town, it seems. Everyone from the doormen to Tommy Dorsey is a friend of playboy Danny.But then his shenanigans make the papers and his father is miffed. So Daddy decides that Junior would be better off at another college. Out west. Among the cactus. With no coeds.So, our big fish in a big pond finds himself out of water in the dusty environs of Cody, Wild West. We're not in Manhattan (Kansas) anymore, and the transition is handled well. The story becomes preposterous, but the film lets us know that--by a series of three billboards in the middle of the dustbowl that give cartoon directions to Cody. As smoothly as Dorothy enters Munchkinland, we are transported to the land of Cody, where there are no cornfields, but plenty of corn.In 1943, Americans could use a bit of fluff and "Girl Crazy" delivers. Now that Danny has left the land of the beautiful Amazons, he falls for the dean's daughter, Ginger (Judy Garland). After a few tenderfoot jokes, Danny and Ginger decide to put on a show--a ro-day-o.Danny woos Ginger beneath painted skies and among painted rocks. And everywhere we look, someone is warbling a Gershwin song. Thank goodness. The music of George and Ira makes this one of the best films of its genre.I love the (mostly) leisurely staging of "Bidin' My Time". And the arrangement of "Fascinating Rhythm" by the Dorsey band is compelling. Note the amazing job by Mickey Rooney on the piano, fingering the keys so well you might think he is actually playing."Girl Crazy" benefits from the vocal talents of Judy Garland and many others. And the energy of Mickey Rooney. And the zoom-tastic staging of a jive hoedown by Busby Berkeley for "I've Got Rhythm". The plot is mostly just an excuse for the musical presentations, but that's okay because the musical performances are splendid.

Lively musical, but what else can you expect from those two sparkplugs, Garland and Rooney. Actually, Rooney is more restrained than usual which helps. Garland is in fine form, especially with the Embraceable You number, which is also very well staged and choreographed. I like the western setting, unusual for an A-musical, but it works. However, the curtain-closing I Got Rhythm appears over-done, especially the six-gun fusillade. Then too, those marching phalanxes of cowboys and girls are unmistakably Busby Berkeley at work. The plot's a typical Let's Put on a Show, only this time it's to rescue a college's floundering enrollment. The show's also a good excuse to parade around a lot of statuesque beauties, but who's complaining. Too bad, this was the dynamic duo's last pairing— together they certainly light up the screen.

Boy meets girl, boy looses girl, boy gets girl. Classic right? Well that trite story line looks fantastic in this 40s musical for three reasons.First is Rooney. I've never seen a bad performance from this man, from Andy Hardy, through Requiem for a Heavyweight to The Black Stallion and beyond! Even in repeating serials he NEVER 'phones it in'. One of my all time favorites! 322 appearances! Legend. Next: Garland. I'm not usually a fan, but here she is at the height of her powers and sexiest in my opinion.Finally: Gershwin. Come on . . . you could film a documentary about canning beets, put it to Gershwin and have a wonderful movie.So: A triple becomes an inside the park homer!