Let's Make Love

Rating:
Summary: 5 stars for MARILYN!
Review: Bad plot, bad script,some bad music choices..but Marilyn shines in her scenes! "My heart belongs to Daddy" is right up there with her classic performances (diamonds are a girl's best friend..) and any other musical numbers she is in are decent. This movie is interesting to watch just for the stuff that went on behind the scenes. Marilyn's marriage to playright Arthur Miller was already strained, her fling with co-star Yves Montand becoming public knowledge. Marilyn looks worn out in this movie, a tad heavier than she ever was before. Yet she carries this mediocre movie all by herself. That's why she is the best!

Rating:
Summary: 5 stars for MARILYN!
Review: Bad plot, bad script,some bad music choices..but Marilyn shines in her scenes! "My heart belongs to Daddy" is right up there with her classic performances (diamonds are a girl's best friend..) and any other musical numbers she is in are decent. This movie is interesting to watch just for the stuff that went on behind the scenes. Marilyn's marriage to playright Arthur Miller was already strained, her fling with co-star Yves Montand becoming public knowledge. Marilyn looks worn out in this movie, a tad heavier than she ever was before. Yet she carries this mediocre movie all by herself. That's why she is the best!

Rating:
Summary: I love this movie
Review: I am a big Marilyn fan, and LOVE this movie!! It is romantic, funny, and entertaining. I really enjoy the music & dance scenes, and the chemistry between Montand and Marilyn is incredible! Tony Randall and Frankie Vaughan are great, too! The guest appearances by Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly and Milton Berle are delightful! I recommend this movie for anyone who enjoys a romantic, musical film.

Rating:
Summary: MARILYN!
Review: I am a great admirer of Marilyn, and while I did buy this movie, and I watch it a few times a year, it still isn't one of my favorites. I gave the film the 3 stars for MM! Marilyn is fine her performance, but it's no Cheree' from Bus Stop. This film reverts back to her older films, cutesy musical movies with cheesy plots. I thought that Gentlemen prefer Blondes was a much better musical and a better movie. Let's make Love is lacking..I found Yves Montand to be so boring and a bad actor!!! He just didn't go well with Marilyn at all. It amazes me that she had an affair with him; I think maybe the fact that he bares a slight resemblence to Joe Dimaggio may have something to do with that. And the fact that she was very depressed and estranged from her husband at the time, Arthur Miller probably didn't help either. The movie does offer some entertaining musical numbers, but the first half hour of it is SO BORING!!!!! I fast forward through it now. The scenes with Marilyn are the best. Also the cameos of Gene Kelley, Milton Berle, and Bing Crosby help to make this film a little more watchable. The script is awful! Aside from Yves' wooden performance, the rest of the acting is fine. I always find Tony Randall so amusing in his earlier films. I'd have to say the first scene with Marilyn, when she performs "My heart belongs to Daddy" makes the film worth purchasing for one's Marilyn collection. I think you can only truly appreciate this film if you are a big admirer of her's. The movie itself is a big flop, and from what I've read Marilyn thought so, too. She seems very distant and has very low self esteem through out the movie.(well, except in her first scene). If you want a great movie musical, this is going to sorely disappoint.

Rating:
Summary: STRICTLY FOR MM FANS.....
Review: I am a great admirer of Marilyn, and while I did buy this movie, and I watch it a few times a year, it still isn't one of my favorites. I gave the film the 3 stars for MM! Marilyn is fine her performance, but it's no Cheree' from Bus Stop. This film reverts back to her older films, cutesy musical movies with cheesy plots. I thought that Gentlemen prefer Blondes was a much better musical and a better movie. Let's make Love is lacking..I found Yves Montand to be so boring and a bad actor!!! He just didn't go well with Marilyn at all. It amazes me that she had an affair with him; I think maybe the fact that he bares a slight resemblence to Joe Dimaggio may have something to do with that. And the fact that she was very depressed and estranged from her husband at the time, Arthur Miller probably didn't help either. The movie does offer some entertaining musical numbers, but the first half hour of it is SO BORING!!!!! I fast forward through it now. The scenes with Marilyn are the best. Also the cameos of Gene Kelley, Milton Berle, and Bing Crosby help to make this film a little more watchable. The script is awful! Aside from Yves' wooden performance, the rest of the acting is fine. I always find Tony Randall so amusing in his earlier films. I'd have to say the first scene with Marilyn, when she performs "My heart belongs to Daddy" makes the film worth purchasing for one's Marilyn collection. I think you can only truly appreciate this film if you are a big admirer of her's. The movie itself is a big flop, and from what I've read Marilyn thought so, too. She seems very distant and has very low self esteem through out the movie.(well, except in her first scene). If you want a great movie musical, this is going to sorely disappoint.

Rating:
Summary: Let's Not.
Review: I am only reviewing this film as a sort of amendment to my review of "The Prince And The Showgirl". Having said I consider that film M.M's least interesting role, I now stand self- corrected. This film, "Let's Make Love", is truly Marilyns least interesting role, so much so, that I conveniently erased it from my memory. It is not only her lousiest movie, but an all-around turkey, with an awful script, that even an Arthur Miller re-write couldn't help....an un-intelligible Yves Montand doing impressions of a walrus, and is filmed through some sort of lens that makes Marilyn look like Doris Day on quaaludes. This film was a necessity under her old Fox contract, and she hated the non-role from the get-go. In viewing her annotated scripts for this film, they have the fewest "notes" to herself, than any of her other scripts, which can all be viewed in Christies auction catalog. She simply had no part to work with. Every star has at least several films they've made that they wished they hadn't done, and I'm sure this was one of M.M.'s. Yes, there was all the behind-the-scenes drama on this film, the troubled M.M.-Miller marriage, the M.M.- Montand affair...if they apparently had chemistry off screen, they didn't save any for this film. All the big name cameos, Gene Kelly, Milton Berle, ...look embarressed. And even George Cukor's directing skills couldn't make this spruce goose fly. Some people can overlook a bad film just because of a stars presence, with M.M.'s fans being among the most loyal. But, though I consider myself one of her biggest admirers, I feel her unique talent and image should be seen, if not at her best, than at least in a role of SOME interest. This film does not even have the basic redeeming quality which almost all of her films possess, a magical M.M. screen image. She looks wan, woeful, and bored. Having viewed this just once, it went in the never-to-be-watched-again- file, with "Billy Jack", and "Can't Stop The Music". A S.T.I.N.K.E.R.... to be avoided.

Rating:
Summary: Underrated!
Review: I don't understand why the critics hated this film so much, this is my favorite Marilyn film! They said that she looked tired and heavier than usual in the films, but I think it's the best she ever looked. Wonderful musical score. Loved the storyline!

Rating:
Summary: Only for courageous fans
Review: I found it quite difficult to sit through this movie. Marilyn looks great & sings wonderful, the musical numbers are good, but the script is so thin that the film as a whole is just boring, boring, boring...
The supporting cast has nearly nothing to do, and Yves Montand has to be one of the worst actors ever! His accent is simply unbearable (he even has a few lines in German & Italian, which are nearly incomprehensible to native speakers), and he never manages to give his character any credible feelings whatsoever. Why should Marilyn's character abandon Frankie Vaughan (who is rather handsome & a good singer, too) for this horrible old guy? Perhaps she really only wants his money after all...

Rating:
Summary: Only for courageous fans
Review: I found it quite difficult to sit through this movie. Marilyn looks great & sings wonderful, the musical numbers are good, but the script is so thin that the film as a whole is just boring, boring, boring...
The supporting cast has nearly nothing to do, and Yves Montand has to be one of the worst actors ever! His accent is simply unbearable (he even has a few lines in German & Italian, which are nearly incomprehensible to native speakers), and he never manages to give his character any credible feelings whatsoever. Why should Marilyn's character abandon Frankie Vaughan (who is rather handsome & a good singer, too) for this horrible old guy? Perhaps she really only wants his money after all...

Rating:
Summary: Really Cute
Review: I had heard that this wasn't supposed to be one of MM's but I watched it anyway and loved it! I suggest any fan give it a try!