Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Jon Corelis Nobody seems to understand this movie.Howard Hawks's screwball comedy starring Rock Hudson as a supposed professional expert on sports fishing who actually knows nothing about it, and Paula Prentiss as the woman who helps him get through a fishing contest despite his ignorance, is perhaps the most amazing cinematic study in symbolic sex I can think of, though the symbolism is so naturally integrated into the action that the censors can't touch it.Almost every scene involves a woman or women getting a man (Rock Hudson) into something he can't get out of.It begins with Hudson inserting himself into Prentiss's car and almost not getting out of it, incidentally dropping his ID into the car next to her ID (!), and it turns out she's also gotten him into getting a ticket, which he can't get out of.Then he finds she's gotten him into entering the fishing tournament, which he can't get out of.Later she makes him fall into the lake, which he can't get out of, and then she tells him to inflate the gaiters, which he does but they inflate up too much (!) and he can't get out of them.And she puts his arm into a cast which he can't get out of, so he has to walk around with his arm sticking stiffly up (!) until she finally cuts off the cast (yes, there's a lot of castration imagery too.) And she causes him to sleep on the couch in a sleeping bag, which he subsequently can't get out of, causing him to get in trouble with his fiancée Tex, which he can't get out of.These are only a few of the more memorable scenes of "female traps male," which are all symbolic of male ambivalence towards the sex act: desire to consummate and dread of being consumed.I haven't even mentioned the male sexual imagery associated with fish, but if you watch the film with that in mind, you'll see it everywhere. Just one example is the fishing contest, in which men are judged by the size of their "trophies": "Mine is bigger than yours: I'm the better man!" And there's some fascinating symbolism in the early scenes in the Abercrombie and Fitch offices, where Hudson and the other men are positioned in front of the various antlered hunting trophies on the walls in such a way that they seem to have horns themselves, foreshadowing, I think, the motif of women manipulating men through male "animal impulses." (I probably can't even explain the symbolism of Hudson getting his tie caught in the zipper of another woman's dress and then being led all around by it without getting this review censored.) About now many reading this are saying, This is a joke, right? and are preparing to post mocking replies saying "Yeah, sure, and I suppose all those fishing rods are also sex symbols ..." (Well, yes, actually.) My only defense is to remind everyone that Hawks was one of cinema's supreme geniuses: not even Hitchcock makes his sexual symbolism (which is universally agreed to be there) so natural and unobtrusive. The ultimate test will be to watch the movie again with some of these things in mind: even if you're skeptical now, I bet you won't be able to help feeling there's something to this. Meanwhile, feel free to post your scorn.(And I'm not saying everything in this movie is a sexual symbol. Probably not the credits, for instance ...)

funland-98847 In this remake of "Bringing up Baby", there are glaring mistakes. In that 1938 film, Katherine Hepburn's Susan was free-wheeling, but never rude. And, unlike Cary Grant's strait-laced and confining bride-to-be, Alice, Rock Hudson's sweetheart, Tex, seemed to be a thoughtful person, and totally wronged through no fault of her own. We were given no reason to dislike Tex.At the start, Abigail unsafely tailed Roger's car for no reason given. She stole Roger's parking place, and thoughtlessly walked away. At the lodge, She did not defend him when exiting from his cabin bedroom in the presence of Tex. Is this the kind of woman that I am supposed to favor over Tex?

Joe Day This movie has been running on one of my local stations as if it were the only movie they have. I have tried t watch it all the way through and just cannot. It's painful. Hudson phones in his performance. The movie has none of the sparkle of his films with Doris Day, for example. As a matter of fact, this same channel has been running several of Hudson's films of this ilk, including one with Gina Lolabrigida -- again just awful. I always liked the Prentiss sisters as well as Hudson but like many of the films of of this genre starring Jack Lemon, this one was just a snore. I think Hudson works best in comedy when he plays kind of dumb. I didn't get any chemistry between the stars. I simply cannot recommend it.

mrb1980 This often lumbering Howard Hawks comedy stars Rock Hudson, a "reknowned fishing expert" who really knows nothing about fishing, and Paula Prentiss, as the daughter of the local fishing lodge's owner. There's a big fishing tournament coming up, so Prentiss pressures Hudson into entering the tournament, even though Hudson has no idea what he is doing.The rest of the movie follows Hudson's pratfalls as he vainly tries to fish, and naturally follows the subsequent love affair between Hudson and Prentiss. Lots of gags are thrown in, but many of them fail with a resounding thud.Prentiss gives a funny performance and is absolutely radiant, while Hudson gamely plods through the film, like so many of his other early-to mid-60s roles. Norman Alden steals the show in a screamingly funny performance as John Screaming Eagle, the lodge's Indian guide who is always hitting Hudson up for money. Look quickly for Paul Langton as a true fishing expert, in one of his last movie roles. Not bad, but certainly could have been better.