![]() Shifting configurations of dancers, contorted body poses, dance steps that are by turns awkward and graceful, a studied contrast between clustering dancers and separating dancers - it is hard to describe the magic of the Pompeii Club sequence. ![]() ![]() Fosse was quite simply a genius, and the great showcase numbers such as "Hey Big Spender" and "Rich Man's Frug" are as brilliant as any dance numbers ever put on film. The dull non-musical scenes are a chore to sit through, but when one of Fosse's amazing production numbers begins, Sweet Charity soars into the sublime. The film also suffers from the bloated, over-produced quality that infected most 60's major studio musicals. Some of the jokes by Neil Simon are corny, and Shirley MacLaine can be a little hard to take sometimes. Sure, Bob Fosse sometimes indulges in trendy late-60's stylistic touches like freeze-frames and crash-zooms.
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