This is a picture that doesn't know what it wants to be. It's released in 1944 so is it a comedy? Is it a war film? Is it patriotic drivel? IT IS Danny Kaye being so irritating that I would welcome fingernails on a chalk board. Kaye plays an idiot/klutz who is a hypochondriac in love with a girl that his roommate eventually falls in love with. Now why a stud like Dana Andrews would hang with Kaye is beyond me. Some of the very improbably situations is singing in the middle of a theatre lobby. 160 "Goldwyn Girls" who play nurses and they share the same ship Kaye and all the other soldiers. When they board the ship, all the other soldiers are in line for one gangplank singing while the "Goldwyn Girls and Kaye get exclusive access to a separate gangplank. Then the nurses have their own club med on the upper deck. Not to mention that they smuggle 1 nurse on board that doesn't belong there. How come no one is concerned with her going AWOL? Danny Kaye was good in films like WHITE CHRISTMAS, MERRY ANDREW and HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON. This is NOT memorable Kaye - while I rated this 2 stars, this is a 5 aspirin movie. When this is available, make sure your DVR is set to "erase".
Review of Up in Arms
