This is a highly enjoyable film if taken for what it is...a late fifties madcap comedy.
It's a good comedy, maybe even a great comedy, but if you watch it expecting to be bowled over by the finest comedy film ever made then you will be very, very disappointed.
It's Lemmon's film by a country mile, with a wonderful performance. Curtis hams it up wonderfully as well, though you'll find his 'legendary' Cary Grant impersonation either hilarious or irritatingly awful (I hated it!).
Monroe is completely forgettable throughout, and I'm sure for that comment alone people will entirely disregard this review.
This film IS funny, but it would really pain me to think that two men in dresses is still the funniest thing that a century of cinema has to offer the world.
It's a good comedy, maybe even a great comedy, but if you watch it expecting to be bowled over by the finest comedy film ever made then you will be very, very disappointed.
It's Lemmon's film by a country mile, with a wonderful performance. Curtis hams it up wonderfully as well, though you'll find his 'legendary' Cary Grant impersonation either hilarious or irritatingly awful (I hated it!).
Monroe is completely forgettable throughout, and I'm sure for that comment alone people will entirely disregard this review.
This film IS funny, but it would really pain me to think that two men in dresses is still the funniest thing that a century of cinema has to offer the world.