calvinnme This one has a totally predictable plot with a very Irritating Dean Stockwell and a shrill Kathryn Grayson. The musical numbers save the movie: "The Worry Song" with Jerry and Gene Kelly; "I Fall In Love Too Easily" by Frank Sinatra; the dance number with the little Spanish girl (Sharon McManus), too many others to list. More good than bad; but musical numbers are spare in the first hour, plentiful afterwards. But that first hour is trying when the cast isn't singing. You can begin to see the beginning of the cracks in the foundation of MGM's formula here. This came out the year that WWII ended, and yet they are sticking to this pre-warrish happy sappy musical formula with clean cut kids. They would get away with this for a couple of more years before the problems began to be projected at the box office.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues When we thinking in musical movies we expect to see gorgeous legs girls dancing in large stages,but this time too family movie even Sinatra was strangely dumb and behaved,just Kelly has some malicious thoughts along the movie trying make a appointment with a hot girl who so long spoke about and all audience expect to meet her,for a family movie once more Dean Stockwell made history...by the way a few boy who made successfully career after grow up like him...backing on movie is easy to watch but a lack of the other beauty legs and faces made a puritanical movie...just for adjusted families only!! Resume: First watch: 1995 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7

Prismark10 Anchors Aweigh is a Technicolour MGM musical focusing on Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as two sailors on shore leave in Hollywood.Kelly did the choreography on two dream sequences show dances which are the highlight of the film. The cameo from Tom and Jerry and the dance with with Jerry The Mouse is what makes this film well known. The other is the Paso Doble/Tango as Kelly playing a bandit which was impressive.The storyline of Sinatra being the young, naive sailor who falls for Aunt Susie and later the waitress from Brooklyn and Kelly as the more experienced one who has a girl waiting for him before being diverted to look after a young Dean Stockwell, a kid who plans to run off to the navy is a more humdrum affair.Sinatra never convinces as an innocent and looks too old (He was almost 30 years old.) Stockwell, who almost seventy years after this movie was made is still acting is a charm as the kid. There is good chemistry between Kelly and Sinatra and Kelly and Kelly and Grayson.The film is overlong and some of the songs just come across as a filler. A good try but not a classic MGM musical.

loveballet12 Date: August.25, 2012 -First Time Watch- On Gene Kelly's hundredth birthday, TCM ran a marathon of his movies and no surprise the three movies Gene starred in alongside Frank Sinatra were featured. I recorded all three and this is the first one I watched and boy what a way to start! This movie is just so sweet. The storyline is average but the way it was executed was fantastic! I couldn't but fall in love with both Gene and Frank. Gene's voice is amazing, especially when he first calls his girlfriend. The phone scene just makes you feel like your own boyfriend would talk to you that sweetly. Then there's Frank. Frank was just adorable! I love how he plays a guy who can't talk to girls when in fact he was with just with about everyone in Hollywood during that time. His sweetness throughout the movie makes you just wish you had a boyfriend like him. I definitely think if I was around during this time I would be a huge Sinatra fan. While this movie is just average, I have to give it extra point simply because of Gene and Frank. I can't wait to watch their other two films! 8/10