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Film · RKO · 1933

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Flying Down to Rio

31Leave it.

Dancers on airplane wings, a second couple, and a plot that is an excuse.

Take controlThis scores 31. Flying Down to Rio cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Dancers are strapped to the wings of planes, and that stunt is the movie. A band leader and a woman have a Brazilian engagement. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are the second couple, not yet the stars, and they are who people kept. A house can watch it. The plot is an excuse.

I can enjoy a number that admits it is a number. I can't enjoy being told the wings amount to a story about a place, or about a pair worth copying. Once the planes were done, nobody here could say what the band leader's trouble had been. The engagement is scenery. The straps are the fact.

Journal

Keep Flying Down to Rio in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 31. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Greatest Showman

40 instead of 31

The Greatest Showman is still a musical film, and it scores 40 instead of 31. What you gain is household: A wife and daughters he keeps leaving for the bigger room.

The eight

5
Industry
A band leader works, and the wing dancers do the risky job.
2
Household
A lead couple and a second couple, and no house kept.
2
Piety
The engagement never asks anybody to stop or refuse.
5
Courage
Dancers strapped to wings could lose more than a step.
2
Republic
Brazil is a booking, not a country the film answers to.
3
Temperance
The wing stunt is built so a bigger spectacle feels due.
3
Truth
The plot is an excuse, and the stunt is the plain part.
3
Stewardship
People kept the second couple; the wings were the stunt.

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Film · Prime Video · 2026

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Buddy

31Leave it.

A mascot is not a companion. Wait for a story before you clear a Saturday.

Take controlThis scores 31. If you do not want Buddy in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

The poster is a face designed to be kept. Films like this sometimes hide a real loneliness under the plush, and sometimes they are only the plush. The desk cannot see which from the tile, and will not invent a lesson the marketing department did not bother to print.

If you play it, watch the adult in the frame. A story where a creature teaches a man to stay is worth a conversation. A story where the toy is the point is an advertisement. You do not owe an advertisement your evening.

Journal

Keep Buddy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Goosebumps

54 instead of 41

Goosebumps is still a horror film, and it scores 54 instead of 41. What you gain is temperance: Meddling is how it starts.