Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

mark.waltz Good news! That good old showbiz standard, the college musical, is back with a future T.V. series character, and this time, it isn't the big football game that is in jeopardy, it is the whole school. Poor Charles Lane, the chemistry professor, who has to find new educational quarters to continue his Freshman science class, that is if Bobby Van's Dobie doesn't drive him into an early retirement. And really, is English professor Hans Conreid so naive that he doesn't notice that Dobie's essay is plagiarized? So don't expect a campus reality film, just a future sitcom with songs and dances, and that includes a hillbilly number featuring Jerry Lewis's long-time foil, Kathleen Freeman.It all starts at their orientation date where happy-go-lucky future roommates Bobby Van and Bob Fosse meet and instantly attract two females, the studious but closeted fun-loving Debbie Reynolds and the boy crazy Barbara Ruick who is wild about Dobie who only has eyes for Debbie. She gets to sing a slower version of "All I Do is Dream of You" than the one she danced to as part of the chorus in "Singin' in the Rain", but does get to perform a juke box dance # with her three co-stars. In fact, it's obvious after "Singin' in the Rain" that MGM was promoting her more than the three co-stars, the two males who soon went off to Broadway. Fosse even gets to show off his signature hat turn here, obviously having invented that himself. Young Ms. Ruick, best known for playing Carrie in the movie version of "Carousel" and one of the stepsisters in the 1965 "Cinderella", reminds me a lot of a young Gloria DeHaven here and gets to be both perky and impish without being annoying.A great cast of character actors support the four youngsters, with Almira Sessions very funny as Reynolds' imperious aunt and Hanley Stafford over the top as Reynolds' possessive father. MGM was making very few black and white films at this point, let alone a musical, which makes this one appear almost like an after thought and one that doesn't stand out when compared to everything which came before and those which would come after. The stars are perky and fun, but the story (what little there is of it) seems forced and artificial.

classicsoncall As much as I wanted to capture the nostalgic feel of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" TV show, it was just not to be while watching this earlier preview featuring Bobby Van and Debbie Reynolds. The thought that came to mind was a beach picture without the beach or the one piece bathing suits on the picture's females. The film wore out it's welcome about the tenth time I heard 'Learn, learn learn, Work, work work', and that was just in the first half hour. By his own indisputable admission, Dobie (Van) is a fun seeker, who's prime directive employs the ideal 'Workers ought to work, and enjoyers ought to enjoy'. There's never any doubt in which category Master Gillis belongs.Before she joined the slackers club, Debbie Reynolds looked like she might have been the proverbial too good to be true catch for Dobie, but their romance is cinched almost from the get go. On the other hand, Lorna Ellingboe (Barbara Ruick) is more than hormonally challenged by the sight of Dobie on campus. How all these lovebirds reconcile their feelings for each other is part of the meandering script, with caper after caper usually ending in disaster.The one surprise I wasn't expecting here was the presence of legendary dance choreographer and director Bob Fosse. For most of the picture, he was Lorna's noble meatball, but when he breaks into a solo dance number, he's simply amazing. Later he tries not to show up buddy Dobie in a choreographed number that also includes the girls. Those two spots would have been the highlight of the film for me.If you tune in expecting to see characters from the TV show, be warned. There's no Maynard G. Krebs or Zelda Gilroy, no Chatsworth T. Osborne Jr. or Frank Faylen knock off portraying Dobie's grocer dad. Depending on your mood, this one could be mildly entertaining or just a complete bore. Unfortunately, it looks like I caught it on a bad day.

moonspinner55 College freshman Dobie Gillis (Bobby Van, exercising more befuddled expressions and quirky dance movements than even Ray Bolger) falls for a perky, studious innocent (Debbie Reynolds) on his first day of enrollment; he also makes a buddy in Bob Fosse, who apparently trolls for curvier dames. MGM musical with the usual stuffed-shirt parents and teachers who never have any fun (as if they'd outgrown it completely). The kids are crazy-cool, treating life with abandon and dancing jitterbug-style in coffeehouses which probably looked very flashy in 1953. They are required to do some classwork, but this college campus is the fictional type wherein something is always comically exploding in the chemistry lab. If the leads weren't so talented this might make your teeth ache, but--for the first two-thirds of an hour--it isn't bad and the infrequent songs are quite good. Fosse, who seems stuck in an ugly white pullover with a stripe around the waist, talks amusingly (and probably unintentionally) like one of the Bowery Boys, yet his small muscular frame and early-receding hairline are boyishly charming; Reynolds can't get a proper grip on her character due to the writing, but she's a very good sport. ** from ****

David (Handlinghandel) t's strange that this was spun off into a television series. (I have ever seen the TV show.) It's a peculiar movie: It's an MGM musical in black and white. It's mildly amusing but no more. The only performer who went on to stardom is Debbie Reynolds.Almira Sessions was a very odd choice for the New York City aunt of a Grainbelt U. student. She looks like a crony of Ma Kettle.I can't comment on the many -- well, undertones. Possibly the most intriguing aspect of the whole thing is Bob Fosse's dancing, which must have seemed astonishing in 1953. We have seen it now in his own work and in those that have been influenced by him. But the rest of the movie seems -- if not unappealing, and it's not -- quaint and dated.