one can only assume that robert osborne be contractually obligate to express delight at even the least appealing film in the tcm library a this would explain him extol the virtue of this charming film during his introduction when i saw this on cable tv . see a any old film on imdb receives classic status from a number of fawn amateur reviewer and i thought there be a dire need for a more honest review of this film . this be not your father shop around the corner . for all my quibble with you have get mail and it still outshine this a a remake in just about every way imaginable . for those who have see the original and the flaw will only be all the more obvious . from one of the lame meet cute sequence i can recall see ( a sad slapstick attempt at humor ) and this film get off on the wrong foot and it never really get back in step . this amusical only qualify a one in the sparse sense of the term . there be a sprinkling of instantly forgettable musical number and then there judy singing i don not care while flail her arm around a if in a seizure . the christmas song she sing in the store be probably one of her good number here . miss garland be wonderful in a number of musical film and but here she seem horribly miscast . the role be originally to have be fill by june allyson and judy be definitely unable to fill the shoe of margaret sullavan old part . van johnson also turn in a rather bland performance a a second rate jimmy stewart type . the lead never achieve the chemistry of stewart or sullavan or even that of hank or ryan . this be a film that know ( some of ) the note and but not the music . it doesn not really seem to understand why the original worked and even feel the need to add another possible love interest for van johnson character to complicate thing unnecessarily . the remake substitution for the original infidelity subplot be a hackneyed plot device involve a priceless violin . it be almost embarrassing to watch and feel a if it have perhaps be lift from an episode of three company by someone with a delorean and a flux capacitor . it really just an excuse for a keaton pratfall . even the big resolution scene between the romantic lead be mishandle . after see both film and you will understand why they call it the lubitsch touch and not the robert z. leonard touch . avoid this and rewatch either the original film or one of judy garland earlier film unless youre an iconoclast who enjoy see a once great star fall down to earth .