Some Like It Hot

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Summary: Classic Romp
Review: This movie is a wonderful fun and delightful romp into the 1920's. The gags are a little dated and corny but I caught myself chuckling out loud several times during the film.

By the end, the outcome is so utterly predictable but so delightful you thoroughly enjoy the journey there. Except for "Spats" who got what was comin' to him.

Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and of course, Marilyn Monroe's talents are on full display. What's not to love?



Rating:
Summary: A comedy master class
Review: Easily one of the great film comedies of all time - 'Some Like It Hot' has a kind of perfection, precision and wholeness about it that sets it apart.

The Billy Wilder/I.A.L. Diamond writing partnership created dialogue and situations full of wit, irony, pace, timing, comic tension and fun.

Wilder was a versatile writer and director whose career achievements are considerable and he is on unassailable form here.

His work is complemented by Lemmon, Curtis & Monroe turning in superb performances, as well many others from the sort of outstanding character actors that seemed so in abundance in those days.

Any DVD issue deserves this good print transfer to do justice to Charles Lang Jr's bright and rich cinematography.

This film has to be in any serious DVD library and this edition certainly adds worthwhile extras.

Enjoy.

Rating:
Summary: Some Like It Lukewarm
Review: Let me preface my review by saying that Jack Lemmon was one of our greatest actors("The Apartment", "Glengarry Glen Ross",etc.), Tony Curtis was not the bad actor some people made him out to be("The Sweet Smell of Success","The Defiant Ones"), Billy Wilder was one of our great directors("Sunset Boulevard","Stalag 17",etc.)and Marilyn Monroe was one voluptuous babe. That does not explain my mild amusement or indifference to this prohibition-era gender-bender or why the American Film Institute ranked this as the funniest comedy of all-time(?!). Let's see bumbling musicians witness Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and go on the lam as girl musicians. Hijinks ensue. One of the musician's has to fend off the advances of a lech while the other pretends he's Cary Grant so he can make beautiful music with Marilyn Monroe. I'm in hysterics. If you want to see a better example of trans-gender comedy seek out or hope for the release on DVD of the classic early-eighties sitcom "Bosom Buddies" starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. Donna Dixon(wolf noises).

Rating:
Summary: Timeless Comedy
Review: In this witty comedy, two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and need to get out of town fast. They dress up as women and join an all-women band headed for Florida. Along the way, Joe courts Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), and a millionaire courts Jerry.

This film has a little bit of everything in it, murder, romance, and humor, lots of lots of humor. The dialogue is sharp and the acting is excellent. Marilyn Monroe is perfect as Sugar Kane, Tony Curtis' Cary Grant impression is one of the funniest bits in the movie and Jack Lemmon is also perfect. Joe E. Brown, as Lemmon's would be suitor almost steals the movie and gets to deliver the last line, one of the funniest lines in the movie.

I recommend this movie to those who like a good laugh.