Hands down, this is the best Astaire-Rogers musical ever.
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03/10/03
Top Hat (1935)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:36
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.7/10
Consensus: A glamorous and enthralling Depression-era diversion, Top Hat is nearly flawless, with acrobatics by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers that make the hardest physical stunts seem light as air.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: A musical comedy full of high style, romance, mistaken identity... and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing and singing 11 of Irving Berlin's best songs. When Jerry Travers meets lovely Dale... [More]
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick
Director: Mark Sandrich
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Reviews for Top Hat
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.
08/01/05
Top Hat (1935) is one of the great 30s dance musicals, and possibly the best and most profitable Astaire and Rogers musical ever, with wonderful, magical dance
01/01/00
This 1935 musical finds Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the top of their form.
01/11/08
Top CriticBecause 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.
01/20/06
Top CriticEven if you can't quite appreciate the music, sit back and get clued in to why Fred Astaire is one of the movies' all-time great physical performers.
01/01/00
The quintessential Fred-and-Ginger vehicle… typically escapist Depression-era fare… [but] whenever Fred and Ginger are in motion, the magic is timeless.
12/26/03
The fourth pairing of Astaire-Rogers is one of their best and RKO top grosser of the year.
03/21/08
The third Astaire-Rogers movie and one of the best.
02/09/06
the definitive Fred & Ginger movie
01/01/00
I don't want to get political here. I just want to talk about singing and dancing.
09/15/02
The plot is involving, especially as it builds to its seemingly impossible-to-solve finale.
09/07/05
Top Critic...even after seventy years, the same elements delight us all over again. Good songs, good dancing, and good stars never go out of style.
08/03/05
Delightful.
01/01/00
All the minor players are such skilled comedians that they are able to extract merriment from this none too original comedy of errors.
05/20/03
Top CriticTop Hat does not glorify wealth or upper class status - if anything it continually pokes fun at it.
06/24/06
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.
01/11/08
Top CriticArguably the classiest and funniest of the RKO Astaire-Rogers musicals.
04/24/09
Top CriticTip top.
01/01/00
Top CriticFinally, thanks more to Fred Astaire than any other single influence, the character of musicomedy in the cinema has now completely changed.
04/24/09
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