John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
没看过《魔幻时刻》
靠改编别人剧本在国内娱乐圈混得风生水起的开心麻花，看来是打算在“零原创”的道路上一路走到黑了，这次能在显著位置标明改编自三谷幸喜的《魔幻时刻》也算业内“良心”。只不过这种越来越架空化、程式化、玩闹化的流水线喜剧，已经离我们的生活越来越远，除了一笑而过（其实也没什么好笑），鲜有能够打动人心的那份“真”（p.s.隔离No.94）
还好片尾有“魏成功”的鸡汤:
前面一般，有点“你不笑我就给你挠挠”，中后段很招笑。强烈的话剧感，这是开心麻花的本质。
还行，挺好笑的，笑点大概有十几处。看个乐呵。
我代表电影这门艺术求求你们别拍了，行不行！
真的很久没有看到这样纯粹的喜剧电影了，对我来说真的难得。另，导演对于镜头和灯光把控的很好。真的算是国产电影（尤其在喜剧里）难得值四颗星的作品，太高级了，如果说最大的缺点就是电影名字，其他真的都还可以。
开心麻花的很多作品都是，搞笑就行，其他不重要，所以本身就是一个三流的电影，剧本还不是原创的。全程在摄影棚里完成，把一个舞台剧用摄影机记录下来，这是一个非电影化的电影。虽然我也笑了，但是我也苦恼于电影剧情不够紧密，时时靠段子来凑的尴尬。对于魏翔的表演，也并没有觉得很惊艳，尤其是《雨中曲》那段模仿很一般。春节档黑马竟然都是这样普普通通的一部电影，这个行业的困境实在是不容乐观。
戏中戏，各种借桥、致敬，都让我起鸡皮疙瘩，low遍全身。笑点设计，也大多让人呵呵。开心麻花的喜剧，大多是没品的闹剧而已，扛不起当代喜剧电影的大旗。看来得去看一下三谷幸喜的原作压压惊才行。
无惊无喜，一笑而过。倒是魏翔戏里戏外同步实现了担当男主角的目标这一点颇感神奇。
人生如戏，戏如人生
蛮有意思的电影，喜剧无厘头挺自然的，所有演员都奉献了很高的演技。看了末尾的花絮，原来魏翔跟角色一样也是第一个男主角，很感动。其实这部电影完全值得去电影院看的，后悔我那时候没去了。 另外，吉米放魏成功那场戏应该很难演吧，其他三个人在吉米笑得那么认真的情况下能演绎完全相反的情绪也是不容易哈哈哈。
有一点点get到星仔的气氛
这种角色非常适合魏翔可以说。
今年春节档，这个质量的电影都能取得票房的大成功，是我们院线电影的悲哀。
“成功，只比未成功，多坚持了一次。”致敬了相当多的电影，魏翔也在开心麻花的众捧下，充当了男一号，以精湛的实力，引领全局；奈何影片在男一明白事情真相后，陷入了僵局
这是属于魏翔的喜剧之王
包袱密集但生硬，每一处我都看见了但几乎没有笑出来过。假如可以冒昧地称之为电影的话，那这部电影给我留下的唯一印象便是超级冗长的舞台小品，并且一如既往地不考虑是否突兀，强行加入情节、升华人物形象，例如假儿子一幕。几处反转更是像章子怡曾经的点评：“无法让观众相信这个角色”，包括米兰从欺骗魏成功到舍身相救的转变、卡尔从刺杀哈维失败到协助除去吉米的转变。尽管致敬了诸多经典电影的镜头，我仍对这种廉价的伪电影嗤之以鼻。
表演，打光，镜头都是明显的舞台剧风格。在春节档上映的喜剧这个定语下，不能不说它是一部改编的很成功的电影。最精彩的是台词的本土化。故事细节上的改编也合理，加上几位老熟人的演绎，的确很好笑。对于商业喜剧电影，这已经够了。魏翔的表演很扎实，没有人永远是配角，生命中总有一些自己的主角时刻。原作更有意义，改编更有意思。好本子真的少哇。
刻意，拖沓，幼稚，俗套，尴尬。
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