Barf. Swing Time is one of the least interesting Fred Astaire movies I've seen. (It was apparently Ginger Rogers' favorite of their films together. I gotta disagree, Ginger.) The fact that the songs come from out of the blue (i.e. are non-diegetic) is interesting, but the book is so long; there's so much unnecessary plot. There are four excellent Jerome Kern songs – all four are superb – but this thing is almost 100 minutes long and there are literally four songs plus two dance numbers. This is a musical?
Also there is a blackface number in Swing Time that I found completely tedious – it also, big surprise, did not need to be in blackface.
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