Review of Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) by Tim P — 12 Jul 2015

Yankee Doodle Dandy is very well made, it has superb beginning and terrific ending, it is well directed and James Cagney is magnificent in the lead role, but the rest of the movie is so-so and badly edited with too much music in it, it is also too comedic in tone, it is never as engaging as it should have been and it at times just goes through the motions.

It is an okay movie but I expected much more. It's definitely overrated.