Hey, wanna see a funny classic Christmas comedy with Bing Crosby cracking jokes and singing great Irving Berlin songs? Well, too bad, instead you're gonna get 2 hours of a past-their-prime legends doing show tunes and gay musical numbers and singing some of Irving Berlin's worst tunes ever. The movie has the aesthetics of a gay Broadway musical or a VMA performance, including loooong numbers with lots of acrobatic dancing and costumes. Fucking Bob Fosse shit. The only really good thing about it is the Vistavision cinematography makes the picture quality fucking incredible- not since IMAX has a film format looked better.

If you'd rather be entertained, watch the original Holiday Inn from 1942, where Bing is actually in his prime, cracking jokes, doing short songs in a funny comedy, and with Fred Astaire. It's the way a movie musical should be- light and casual on the musical aspects, which are worked into the silly funny plot. And the version of White Christmas from Holiday Inn is waaaay better than the seven times it's sung in White Christmas. All of Berlin's songs are better in Holiday Inn.