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This movie is so unlike the rest of the Astaire and Rogers films. Instead of the usual pacing and sophistication, this film is more screwball comedy than musical. In fact, the songs and dance numbers are all pretty forgettable and could have actually improved the movie had they been removed.As a bit of background information, I was a psychotherapist and now teach psychology and history. So, I understood some of the now archaic treatments psychiatrist Astaire prescribed for Rogers and I was also horrified at the incredibly unethical behavior of this therapist. However, if you ignore all the reasons he SHOULD have had his license to practice revoked (there are just too many to mention in depth), then the film is a pretty funny jab at Analytic therapy. Although not exactly deep or sophisticated, I loved watching Ginger accidentally being taken from Astaire's office while she was under the influence of gas that Fred used to lower her resistance and inhibitions--and boy did it remove her inhibitions! Also, later when Fred tried hypnotizing her and she became a gun-toting maniac, it was a riot.Oddly, this movie differs from other Astaire-Rogers films because it is Ginger who initially falls for Fred and she pursues him (it's usually the other way around). Regardless, the picture is highly entertaining and just plain fun.PS--For you Ralph Bellamy fans out there, once again, Ralph loses the girl at the end of the picture. This is a pattern that would repeat itself again and again and again in his films of the 30s and 40s. It was such a cliché, that I find myself looking for his movies just so I can find ones where he actually DOES get the girl in the end of the picture (such as in BROTHER ORCHID).

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Reviewed by AlsExGal 6 / 10

The weakest of the Astaire/Rogers films

Tony Flagg (Fred Astaire) agrees to psychoanalyze the girlfriend of his pal Steve (Ralph Bellamy) because she can't make up her mind as to whether or not she wants to marry him. The girlfriend, Amanda (Ginger Rogers), decides in short order that she actually loves Tony, but he has decided she's perfectly normal and doesn't need his help. So she contrives a ridiculous dream so that he thinks she is abnormal and will continue to treat her.This film should have been renamed "Conscience Free" as none of the three central players seems to have one. Astaire comically abuses his license to heal to hypnotize Rogers to try to control her emotions. When he realizes he's fallen for her, he tries to re-direct her affections for Bellamy to him. Rogers, when told under hypnosis to follow every impulse, escapes Astaire's office before she can be taken out of her trance, decides it would be fun to knock the canes away from old people and watch them fall down and to throw rocks through windows. And Bellamy, upon hearing that Rogers really loves Astaire, and that she is only marrying him as a result of hypnosis, is perfectly OK with that.The Irving Berlin music, what there is of it, is fine. But there is little of the usual chemistry between Astaire and Rogers. Bright spots include an early career appearance by Jack Carson showing his flair for comedy and Clarence Kolb as a family friend and judge acting like The Monopoly Man personified. This was the only Astaire & Rogers film to lose money at the box office.

Reviewed by MartinHafer 7 / 10

Carefree

1938

Action / Comedy / Musical / Romance

Carefree

1938

Action / Comedy / Musical / Romance

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The weakest of the Astaire/Rogers films

Pretty dopey but still highly entertaining

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