Criticised at the time it came out for not being quite as good as That's Entertainment! (how could it be? - that was la crème de la crème), this sequel is still a glorious wallow in mainly musical nostalgia, featuring literally scores of clips from MGM films spanning the years 1929 to 1958. My personal favourites from a good crop of musical numbers include Leslie Caron singing Hi Lili Hi Lo; Now You Has Jazz by Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong from High Society; and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland (dressed as tramps) singing A Couple of Swells from Easter Parade. Comedy gets its fair share of the limelight, too, with Laurel and Hardy sinking into roadworks in their car from Leave 'Em Laughing, the cabin sequence from the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera; and W C Fields' Micawber letting Freddie Bartholomew's David Copperfield in on the perils of high finance.

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