Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

JohnHowardReid Jerry Lewis (Peter), Connie Stevens (Eileen), Robert Morley (Quonset), Dennis Weaver (Hoffman), Howard Morris (Schmidlap), Brian Keith (General Hallenby), Dick Shawn (Igor), Anita Ekberg (Anna), William O'Connell (Ponsonby), Bobo Lewis (Esther Davenport), Sig Ruman (Russian delegate), Milton Frome (American delegate), Alex D'Arcy (Deuce), Linda Harrison (Linda), James Brolin (Ted), Michael Jackson (TV announcer). Narrated by Colonel "Shorty" Powers.Directed by GORDON DOUGLAS. Written for the screen by William Bowers and Laslo Vadnay. Costumes designed by Moss Mabry. Director of photography: William H. Clothier. Art direction: Jack Martin Smith and Hilyard Brown. Set decorations: Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss. Unit production manager: Nathan R. Barragar. Assistant director: Joseph E. Rickards. Film editor: Hugh S. Fowler. Special photographic effects: L. B. Abbott, Emil Kosa, Jr and Howard Lydecker. Make-up by Ben Nye. Hair styles by Margaret Donovan. Music composed and conducted by Lalo Schifrin. Title song (Gary Lewis and the Playboys) by Hal Winn (lyrics), Lalo Schifrin (music). Co- ordinator for Jerry Lewis Productions: Joe E. Stabile. Sound recording: Al Overton, David Dockendorf. Westrex Sound System. A CinemaScope picture in DeLuxe Color. Producer: Malcolm Stuart. Copyright 26 October 1966 by Jerry Lewis Productions/Coldwater Productions/Way Out Company. Released through 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. New York opening at neighborhood cinemas: 26 October 1966. U.S. release: 26 October 1966. U.K. release: 1 October 1967. 9,432 feet. 105 minutes. For U.S. release, the film was cut to 101 minutes. The full-length version was shown in England and probably Australia. Sydney opening at the Esquire (or Town).SYNOPSIS: 20th Century-Fox provides a new launching pad for Jerry Lewis in Way... Way Out, and literally sends him to the moon. In the film, a provocative satire on global politics, the space race and the battle of the sexes, Lewis portrays a weather astronaut stationed in space. It is a role which utilizes the full gamut of Lewis' comic talents and, with the current worldwide interest in interplanetary subjects, Way... Way Out shapes up as a film that will not only appeal to the ever growing audience of Jerry Lewis fans but to moviegoers of all types seeking modern first-rate entertainment fun. Co-starring with Lewis are vivacious Connie Stevens, fast rising young star Dick Shawn, the well-known British actor Robert Morley who was recently seen in "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" and the voluptuous Anita Ekberg. Under the direction of Gordon Douglas who guided the successful "Rio Conchos" and the soon to be released "Stagecoach", "Way... Way Out" is currently being filmed on location at the Manned Space Flight Center in Houston and at the NASA facilities in Cape Kennedy and Huntsville, Ala. Malcolm Stuart is the producer. — Fox publicity.NOTES: Final film appearance of one of our favorite character actors, Sig Rumann, who died of a heart attack in 1967 at the age of 83. Gary Lewis is Jerry's son.COMMENT: For the second time in a movie, Lewis uses his natural voice, but his vehicle here is not as successful as "Boeing Boeing". Lewis, mind you, is very good and he makes his lines seem much funnier than they are, but the film is let down by some atrocious over-acting by Dennis Weaver and Howard Morris and by a script that sags badly once the moon is reached.Director Gordon Douglas has a fine time with the sets.I think this was Sig Rumann's final film. He is very appropriately cast as one of the Russian delegates but, for some unexplained reason, his fine voice has been deleted from the sound-track and some colorless nonentity's dubbed in.The special photographic effects are extremely well done. The sets look very attractive and the whole film has been produced on an exceptionally lavish scale.

JasparLamarCrabb Wow...it's terrible. Let's face it, Jerry Lewis trying to play it semi-straight is pretty dull. He's an astronaut roped into marrying Connie Stevens as a publicity stunt. They head for a space station to relieve crazy Howard Morris & Dennis Weaver. They also tangle with Russian counterparts Anita Ekberg & Dick Shawn. Nothing going on is even remotely funny save for the mugging of Morris. He's one of those personalities that just has to be seen to be amusing. Lewis has zero chemistry with Stevens, who, though striking is no comedienne. Bobo Lewis appears briefly and so does a very young James Brolin. Despite the colorful cast, there are very few laughs. Directed in the blandest way imaginable by Gordon Douglas and featuring a very blustery Robert Morley as Lewis's superior. Gary Lewis & the Playboys sing the silly theme song.

bkoganbing Way back in the day when I saw this Jerry Lewis film in the theater it seemed a whole lot funnier. I guess the laughs haven't worn that well in 40 years. Certainly their predictions of the future certainly didn't wear that well.Way Way Out has the USA and the USSR still grappling in the Cold War with the newest theater of that war being the Moon where both superpowers have set up weather stations in the year 2000. The Russians have Anita Ekberg and Dick Shawn there, but being the atheistic Communists they are, the couple has been sent up without benefit of clergy. But Americans being the moral people that they are have reservations about that. Two men, Dennis Weaver and Howard Morris, have been on the Moon for a year and the sexual tensions are showing badly, especially on Morris. What's fascinating here is that the obvious relief for such tensions isn't hinted or implied. Remember this was America before Stonewall.So last minute astronaut Jerry Lewis is given a female partner in Connie Stevens in which they say the vows for convention's sake, but don't plan to do any deeds. Bad for the American image if a man and woman live alone on the Moon without being married, we're not godless and atheistic like those Russians.So the usual situations involving sex, the Cold War, and sex and the Cold War are brought into the story of Way Way Out. Merely the fact that history did not go the way that this film indicates lessens the laughs considerably. Jerry is more restrained than usual except when he does a drunk act with Shawn after they both get crocked on vodka. Shawn, Robert Morley as the NASA administrator and Brian Keith as an Air Force General go to town in their overacted parts.Way Way Out belongs in the third tier of Jerry Lewis's films.

BobLib Believe me, any of those French critics who can see this odious mess and STILL consider Jerry Lewis a genius ought to be drowned in their own vichysoisse! Jerry is at his most self-indulgent on this project, and isn't helped by a lot of leering jokes that even a horny twelve-year-old would consider in bad taste. The all-but-incomprehensible plot and sluggish acting don't help, either. Only bright spot about this film is the underrated, under-used Dick Shawn as Jerry's Russian counterpart.At least a good director experienced in handling Jerry, like Frank Tashlin or Norman Taurog, could have possibly made something out of this, but Gordon Douglas was always a director (?) whose main virtue was that he could bring in films on-time and at or under budget. Douglas' films were successful because of either their stars or stories ("Robin and the Seven Hoods," the Carroll Baker "Harlow"), but he himself was a director of workmanlike competence and no more. It's a reputation he upholds here, with his indulgent direction and sluggish pacing.All of which proves, once again, that Jerry Lewis' last really good film on his own was "The Nutty Professor." After that, he started believing his press clippings, especially his foreign ones, and, after a while, he wasn't as much funny as downright pathetic. And "Way... Way Out" is a textbook example of this.