Filmed on three-strip Technicolor, "The Gang's All Here", directed by Busby Berkeley (on loan from MGM to Twentieth Century Fox), is a nonstop barrage of colorful activity. It's a movie that looks good enough to eat (and with all that fruit being passed around, that's not as far out as one might think!). James Ellison plays a lovestruck soldier who ventures into the "sinful" Club New Yorker and falls for the newest showgirl, played by Alice Faye. Also there, Ellison's jolly father (Eugene Pallette) and his assistant (Edward Everett Horton, as a whipped married man who needs wife Charlotte Greenwood's permission to have fun). Down the street at the Broadway Canteen, where Faye moonlights and Ellison catches up with her, "King of Swing" Benny Goodman and His Band play for teenagers and randy servicemen. Meanwhile, Carmen Miranda sings "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat" and Faye sings "No Love, No Nothin'" and "The Polka Dot Polka" by composers Harry Warren and Leo Tobin. It's a lot of frenetic fun, despite dull lovebirds Ellison (a hole in the screen) and Faye (as always, an acquired taste). **1/2 from ****