largely uneven, the plot is pretty uninteresting and unnaturally paced. i largely think this is because kelly directed all the musical numbers while berkeley held the rest of the directoral duties--the end result is all the musical numbers are fantastic and greatly entertaining, but the rest of the movie is tepid and boring. no complaints on the part of sinatra or kelly or their two female counterparts, but the only thing to take not of here are the great, GREAT songs.

Esther Williams is charming as the female owner of a baseball team, and Kelly and Sinatra are very good as the two errant baseball players and vaudeville performers.

Looks like a double, but the naysayers keep flubbing the ball, so now it's an inside-the-park home run. Sinatra and Gene Kelly at their best, plus Esther Williams (!) as manager, love interest, and coach. Dirtier than you remember, with great songs and horrendous baseball. "You bad boy, I've got a good notion to take you on my knee." "You mean over your knee, don't you?" " I know what I mean."