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Finally, thanks more to Fred Astaire than any other single influence, the character of musicomedy in the cinema has now completely changed.
This one can't miss and the reasons are three -- Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin's 11 songs and sufficient comedy between numbers to hold the film together.
This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.
Because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.
The plot is involving, especially as it builds to its seemingly impossible-to-solve finale.
All the minor players are such skilled comedians that they are able to extract merriment from this none too original comedy of errors.
Most of what I liked about Top Hat centers around its two stars: full of energy and grace, they breathe life into the film whenever it threatens to lose its luster.
Arguably the classiest and funniest of the RKO Astaire-Rogers musicals.
If you want only one Astaire-Rogers musical, Top Hat is obligatory.
The fourth pairing of Astaire-Rogers is one of their best and RKO top grosser of the year.
Top Hat does not glorify wealth or upper class status - if anything it continually pokes fun at it.
The third Astaire-Rogers movie and one of the best.
The music is ceaselessly delightful, and thanks to Astaire it sometimes springs out of nowhere. (TCM Greatest Classic Films Four-Movie Set)
...even after seventy years, the same elements delight us all over again. Good songs, good dancing, and good stars never go out of style.
Every musical number works, and the mistaken identity plot is pleasant enough, even if there's too much emphatic dithering from the supporting players towards the end.
One of the best of the Astaire-Rogers best.
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