YMMV / All That Jazz

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• Awesome Music:
  • The only two numbers of NY/LA is just amazing. The choreography (especially "Airotica") and the catchiness also helped. The licensed music also counts.
  • "Bye Bye Life".
  • "You Better Change Your Ways" (Originally "There'll Be Some Changes Made").
• Ending Fatigue: The endless, repetitive musical numbers in the scenes set at the hospital in the final third (just before "Bye Bye Life").
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The entire "Bye Bye Life" sequence.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The scene of young Joe pleasuring a group of showgirls in the strip club becomes harder to watch after watching Fosse/Verdon where it was revealed that Bob Fosse was raped by a pair of showgirls on a club he worked on as a 13-year-old.
  • In the film, Bob Fosse Expy has a fatal heart attack. Real Bob Fosse would die of a heart attack eight years after the movie's release.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Ann Reinking stars as the partner of a man who has a fatal open-heart surgery. In 2005, her then-teenaged son Christopher had a successful open-heart surgery.
• Nightmare Fuel: The surreal musical numbers at the end.
• Retroactive Recognition: Wallace Shawn is one of the insurance men.
  • Horror fans will also recognize the actor playing young Joe as Keith Gordon, star of John Carpenter’s Christine.
• Squick: Yes, that's real open-heart surgery on your screen.

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