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- 100Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumIn all, the most pleasure-filled Hollywood movie of 1994.
- The biggest innovation is in making TE! III much more than a compilation of familiar scenes. This time producers Bud Friedgen and Michael J. Sheridan have ferreted out previously unseen sequences and outtakes featuring the likes of Astaire, Horne, Frank Sinatra, Charisse, Reynolds, and Judy Garland.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe result is a genuinely fascinating film, one that may tell more about MGM musicals, and aspects of American society, than a film devoted to still more highlights from musical numbers that did make their way into films.
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonPeople always complain that movies aren't as entertaining, entrancing or outrageous as the best of the old Golden Age. Yet, memorably and magically, here's one that is. Don't let it dance away unseen. [22 Jul 1994, p.C]
- 80VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyResourceful filmmakers Bud Friedgen and Michael J. Sheridan have come up with a bang-up third anthology of Golden Era musical highlights that capably holds its own with its predecessors.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThat’s Entertainment! III is the sunniest of memento mori, a showy tribute to the flabbergasting musicals of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that emphasizes both how delightful the genre was and how inescapably extinct it’s become.
- 78Austin ChronicleAustin ChroniclePerhaps sensing that audiences will believe they have already savored the finest MGM musical moments in That's Entertainment! and That's Entertainment! II, the studio has sweetened the pot by including outtakes from its features, songs and scenes deleted prior to the films' original runs.
- 75Baltimore SunStephen HunterBaltimore SunStephen HunterWhat's most pleasing about That's Entertainment! III is the numbers themselves. I almost wish they'd done away with the concept of "documentary" and simply offered the snippets as pure cavalcade. [29 Jul 1994]
- The documentary is undeniably entertaining, but it suffers from an uneven selection of clips, sloppy historical research, and, ultimately, an overabundance of riches.
- 40EmpireWilliam ThomasEmpireWilliam ThomasIt soon becomes apparent, though, that the best songs were used by the first two films, leaving the third with a set of slightly underwhelming tunes.