The Gang's All Here [HD]

The 2008 remastered version is a big improvement
For fans of this movie: yes, the newly remastered edition is much better than the 2007 release. Colors are back to their original super-saturated intensity. If you love this movie, and have the lackluster 2007 version, buy it again, and use the old copy as your "lend it to a friend" copy (which you'll most likely never see again, since everyone I've ever shown this movie to loves it immediately). It's worth the extra $15 or so to have it right this time. Get it.

Took over 20 years to get this onto video!
AT LAST.

Fox never released this surreal film on VHS (why!?), and so it became one of those Holy Grail films that movie buffs have been waiting for (it was released on laserdisc ages ago, though I know of no one who actually owns it). It's great that we are finally getting the DVD.

Was lucky to see this in a theater in NYC 2 years ago, where the crowd loved every minute of it--especially the antics of Carmen Miranda. It does have the dumbest script of any musical I can think of, which is really saying something--especially when you consider other Fox wartime musicals.

On the big screen it LOOKS amazing: the color, the art direction, the costumes, the choreography, the neon hoops, the bananas. (UPDATE: Just watched the DVD--and sadly the color is not replicated very well...the print I saw was much, much richer than this. Oh well.)

How can you not love a movie where the whole cast is washed away by a fountain of purple water at the fade...

Way over the top
20th Century Fox please release this film on DVD!!!

The first time I saw this movie I laughed so hard I nearly made

myself sick. This film starts off with an over the top production number "Brazil/You Discover Your In New York" which

makes you think that nothing in the film can ever get more campy. Alice Faye comes in with a couple of great numbers-

"A Journey to a Star" and "No Love, No Nothin'." But fasten your

seat belts because Carmen Miranda and Busby Berkley are about to

bring you "The Lady In the Tutti-Fuity Hat." This is easily one

of the most over the top musical numbers ever put on film. The

number is supposed to be on nightclub stage that must the size

of a small town. Bananas are everywhere including chorus girls

dancing with giant bananas!! At the end of the number a close-up

of Carmen keeps pulling back to reveal Carmen's hat with an endless stream of...

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