cricket30 Review of Three Cheers for the Girls

Three Cheers for the Girls (1943)

As a real life U.S. Army drill instructor . . .

[6/10 · 18 November 2018]

. . . dance master "Busby Berkeley" should know that bass drums, white flags, flower bouquets, schools of baby grand pianos, floral arches, tropical leis, and a bongo drum phalanx are no substitute for the Real Thing: honest-to-goodness cold hard blue steel All-American guns! Throughout a nearly 17-minute routine (including clips from four feature films), the closest thing we see to heat in THREE CHEERS FOR THE GIRLS are some fake cannons at the beginning of the initial movie clip. Though this first company of marching broads suffers the most from the female formations' lack of firepower, it's impossible to argue that a few dozen military-style assault rifles would not jazz up all of the other segments of THREE CHEERS FOR THE GIRLS as well. Furthermore, the framing sequences performed by the self-proclaimed "Flora Dora Chorus" would pack a lot more punch IF viewers could see that these half-clad green room gals were packing. There would be NO need for them to worry that "We're the girls They undress to dress a scene" IF audiences could give THREE CHEERS for the gats shoved into garter belts and derringers dangling next to derrieres!