Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Prismark10 Anchors Aweigh is a Technicolour MGM musical focusing on Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as two sailors on shore leave in Hollywood.Kelly did the choreography on two dream sequences show dances which are the highlight of the film. The cameo from Tom and Jerry and the dance with with Jerry The Mouse is what makes this film well known. The other is the Paso Doble/Tango as Kelly playing a bandit which was impressive.The storyline of Sinatra being the young, naive sailor who falls for Aunt Susie and later the waitress from Brooklyn and Kelly as the more experienced one who has a girl waiting for him before being diverted to look after a young Dean Stockwell, a kid who plans to run off to the navy is a more humdrum affair.Sinatra never convinces as an innocent and looks too old (He was almost 30 years old.) Stockwell, who almost seventy years after this movie was made is still acting is a charm as the kid. There is good chemistry between Kelly and Sinatra and Kelly and Kelly and Grayson.The film is overlong and some of the songs just come across as a filler. A good try but not a classic MGM musical.

drwam There are some great bits in the film but this is not a good film. They have taken some of the best talent on the MGM lot at its zenith and produced a long, meandering, hugely inconsistent film with no pacing and no plot. The worst offense is....no charm. It is all a huge waste of fabulous production values and many talented contributors. I think a significant part of the lack of charm is the way MGM handled Mr. Sinatra. Frank was not the kind of white bread handsome hunk who gets the girl in an MGM picture. So they have him end up with a more comic or ethnic type better suited to "his kind." They did it in this picture and in several others. Considering Mr. Sinatra's well documented appeal to women, the joke, in the long run, was on Mr. Mayer and his minions.

drednm At a bloated 143 minutes, there's no way this ambitious musical from MGM can hold together. Gorgeous color photography only shows up the cheap sets and rear projection used for this sound stage-bound film.Frank Sinatra (playing the dope again) and Gene Kelly (he can't act) play two sailors on leave who get saddled with a runaway kid (Dean Stockwell) and his Aunt Susie (Kathryn Grayson in a cloying performance). They get suckered into trying to get her an audition with Jose Iturbi at MGM. Along the way Kelly falls for Grayson and Sinatra gets stuck with a stiff from Brooklyn (Pamela Britton is a lousy performance).Maybe an OK story for the time, but the film is way too long and wanders all over the place, including several dance solos for Kelly and the famous cartoon sequence. Sinatra sings a few songs, Grayson squeals a few more, and Iturbi play piano. Co-stars in small roles include Billy Gilbert, Henry O'Neill, Henry Armetta, Edgar Kennedy, Rags Ragland, Renie Riano, Sharon McManus, and the always annoying Grady Sutton.The boys are such jerks, it's hard to warm up to them, and Grayson is all sugar and light to the point of nausea, and then she sings and sings and sings. Iturbi probably comes off best, and his Hollywood Bowl sequence is indeed excellent. Most annoying of all is Pamela Britton with her hideous attempt at a Brooklyn accent. MGM couldn't find an actress who could do the accent? Moider! At one point, Grayson is sitting in a theater next to 2 old ladies. In the next cut the second old lady (who looks like Mae Marsh) is a completely different woman.This one ridiculously won Oscar nominations for best film and for Gene Kelly as best actors. Moider!

MartinHafer Sinatra knows nothing about girls--much like in "On the Town" best when NOT doing the fantasy sequences"Anchors Away" is the movie made famous by Gene Kelly's very famous dance number with Jerry Mouse (from Tom & Jerry fame). However, to me this and other fantasy sequences in the film are among the least entertaining aspects of the film. Why? Because although well done, they really have nothing to do with the plot and seem out of place. Perhaps these numbers should have been released as shorts on their own--of course, what do I know? The film begins with a ship coming into port and a couple sailors, Clarence (Frank Sinatra) and Joe (Gene Kelly), are out on the prowl for some 'dames'. Just like in "On the Town" (another musical from MGM where the two are sailors on the prowl), Kelly plays the ladies' man and Sinatra plays the very shy guy--and you almost wonder if "On the Town" was meant to be a sequel. Joe is so sure of himself that he promises to get Clarence a girl. Unfortunately, on the way to find women, they meet a cute runaway kid (Dean Stockwell) and they take him home. Soon, his guardian, Susan (Kathryn Grayson) arrives and Joe wants to leave. But Clarence is infatuated with her--and Joe decides, reluctantly, to stick around and help Clarence with Susan. However, to impress her, Kelly makes up a HUGE lie involving her getting an audition with the famous pianist, José Iturbi. Much of the rest of the film is spent trying to get her the interview as well as seeing both men (naturally) fall in love--just not the way they planned.I really like this film. The characters were good but I particularly liked the screwy plot. Plus, the film had a bit more plot than many musicals. As I mentioned above, there were two fantasy sequences, however, that were great but had nothing to do with the film. Without them, the film would have been tighter and more to the point. It also helped that the ending with Iturbi was quite funny--and worth the wait. All in all, a very nice musical--full of lovely songs (particularly Sinatra's wonder numbers and Iturbi's amazing piano pieces). It has all the glitz, sparkle and color you can expect from MGM--and then some.