Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

jjnxn-1 Sweet comedy, a time capsule of teen-hood in the movies in the 40's with wonderful music courtesy of Xavier Cugat and his band. Jane Powell is charmingly pert, full of youthful exuberance something she excelled at. According to her autobiography though that very spryness became a type of prison limiting her casting and when musicals declined in popularity made it impossible for her to transition to other types of pictures. Someone who certainly didn't suffer the same issue is Elizabeth Taylor, very young and very beautiful, this was one of her first roles that flirted with adulthood. The doomed Scotty Beckett, a major child star throughout his youth, plays Jane's gangly boyfriend, the unfortunately named Oogie, struggling with puberty in one of the roles attempting to ease him into adult roles. He couldn't make the leap and within the year started the long slide into trouble with the law and drug addiction that ended in his suicide two decades later at 38. In one of his last roles Wallace Beery is full of warm understanding as Jane's father in a departure from his usual bluster, he and Selena Royale at well matched as a long married couple. Lastly Carmen Miranda is a delight as always, her clothes and hats are outlandish, take special note of her shoes and wonder how she could possibly walk in them! One quibble, the Technicolor is unusually garish and at times the cast practically glows orange.

mark.waltz Jane Powell is Judy, a teenager in Santa Barbara, California who can sing like a lark, but for some reason, hasn't been discovered by MGM yet. Elizabeth Taylor is her best friend, a beauty jealous of the fact that Judy croons like a garland of flowers while she sounds like a cat on a hot tin roof. Taylor, the daughter of the wealthiest man in town, is spoiled yet neglected emotionally by her widowed father (Leon Ames, the dad in "Meet Me in St. Louis" starring another Judy), while Powell's pop, Wallace Beery, is a hands-on dad whom Taylor adores.Powell wants to make sure that it remains "hands off" for rumba teacher Carmen Miranda and Beery who wants to surprise his wife Selena Royle by learning how to rumba for their anniversary. The two gal pals vie for the affections of the college aged Robert Stack (who was college aged nine years before when he gave Deanna Durbin her first screen kiss). Powell is also courted by Powell's more appropriately aged brother (Scotty Beckett) although their comical duet "Strictly on the Corny Side" is far from romantic. Powell takes on Kathryn Grayson's "The Kissing Bandit" aria "Love is Where You Find It", while Miranda's "Quanto Me Gusta" is a camp classic. Several renditions of "A Most Unusual Day" are heard throughout the film, which is probably the least heavy handed of Joseph Pasternak's MGM musicals. Everybody gets a chance to stand out, and the visual of hefty Beery doing a rumba with sultry Miranda is comical in itself. Miranda's hat made out of cocktail umbrellas may be small when compared to her "Lady With the Tootie Fruity Hat" chapot, but sometimes the best camp only has a few tents!

kenjha This musical comedy focuses on the trials and tribulations of a teenager rebelling against her parents and coping with puppy love. This is pure fluff, harmless and forgettable. It feels like an extended sitcom. In fact, it is much too extended for such fluff, far outstaying its welcome with a running time of nearly two hours. Powell is the teen of the title and Stack is the hunk she pines for. In his penultimate film, Beery is the teddy bear of a father. Miranda shakes the groove thing. It is interesting that Powell is the star here in only her fourth film while Taylor, who had already appeared in eight films, is given a secondary role.

Nazi_Fighter_David In "A Date with Judy," Liz is fully the poor little rich girl, snobbish and out for trouble because her father's real attention is elsewhere, on making money… Unhappy at home, she stirs up trouble abroad, giving naive Jane Powell bad advice on how to handle boys, and stealing one of Jane's boyfriends right out from under her twitching nose… Very pre-Lolita, a Forties style teenaged sex kitten, this is the first version of the Taylor minx and she seems highly sophisticated for a small-town high school girl, even if she is rich..."A Date with Judy" is a pleasant musical, antiseptic and cheery, suggesting Hollywood's conception of high school Life in the Forties… Like "Cynthia," the film is very class conscious, contrasting Taylor's cold, upper class household with Jane Powell's comfortable middle-class home…Typically, Liz is rich, spoiled, and reserved, but typically, too, when all is said and done, she's not bad-mannered or troublesome one; she's a good kid who just needs a little love and attention… Taylor's character finally allowed her to use the sexiness that everyone had sensed since she rode that horse in "National Velvet."