It has often been stated that because of Carmen Miranda's highly suggestive production number "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat," phallic bananas and all, The Gang's All Here was banned in her native country of Brazil. Not so; in fact, the 20th Century Fox Technicolor extravaganza was approved for export to all of South America which, after all, was the main reason behind producing it as part of Hollywood's wartime "Good Neighbor" policy in the first place. The giant swaying bananas remain the film's most famous, or perhaps infamous, set piece, however, and it is hard to believe that the censors actually passed it. But when all is said and done, the towering fruits completely overshadow what in reality is a pleasant enough little musical comedy, which no one at the time took at all seriously. Fox's color schemes always look brighter than those of any other company and never more so than here. The studio was of course well aware of that fact and Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, and the chorus girls all seem created especially for garish Technicolor. Faye, in her final musical starring role, sings "A Journey to a Star" and "No Love, No Nothing" prettily and the company takes care of "The Polka Dot Polka," "You Discover You're in New York," and the inevitable "Brazil," but it is the vivacious Miranda who runs away with the picture, at least the musical portions of it. James Ellison, late of the Hopalong Cassidy oaters, and Sheila Ryan, who had replaced an incapacitated Linda Darnell, take care of the straight plot and do so nicely. June Haver, who was about to replace Alice Faye in the Fox hierarchy, Jeanne Crain, and Miss America of 1942, Jo Carroll Dennison, all made their screen debuts in this musical but, like everyone else involved, were completely dwarfed by those rhythmically swaying bananas.