Maybe the film will work better if you don’t care about the dialogue that goes on between songs in Night and Day, but it’s not one of the high points in the Warner Bros. library.

To demur that it let a few false notes get into Porter's life story is merely querulousness that will never enter the heads or the reactions of the multitudes who will enjoy it.

More a series of musical numbers strung together with bits of drama than a truly thoughtful look at the life of one of America's greatest talents.

Laughably sanitized biopic.