A pleasant enough musical with some endearing scenarios to set the stage, though it is a little difficult to imagine Sinatra as a girl-shy rube. I tend to like musicals that have an interesting story, and here are a number of unlikely but amusing...
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A pleasant enough musical with some endearing scenarios to set the stage, though it is a little difficult to imagine Sinatra as a girl-shy rube. I tend to like musicals that have an interesting story, and here are a number of unlikely but amusing situations, especially early. Gene Kelly is effective at portraying the amorous woman-chaser, and the idea of him chasing off a potential suitor for the female love interest by implying that she is "well-known" by the Navy is fairly risque for the time.

I sort of like the shifting attractions going on here, but overall, despite Kelly's dancing, the music of this movie is only mid-grade to my taste. The "Tom and Jerry" dance routine is just too contrived and strange to me and seems tacked on to the film rather than integrated into the storyline.