Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

policy134 You can't argue with the majority here, who seems to love and revere this show.Not only a precursor to the phenomenally popular animated series, the Flintstones, but also a major influence on later shows such as Married with Children and the Simpsons. I can't think of any other show at that time who had such a crass and antagonistic character, and yet he was the hero.Say what you will about Jackie Gleason's later career but all comedy shows are indebted to him. If he hadn't been successful with this show, perhaps all shows on television would have been like Father Knows Best or even worse, like Full House.The show itself can be a little tired and predictable for those who grew up after the 50s but at that time it must have been a totally mind-blowing experience.I was introduced to Gleason as the Smokey in that particular film trilogy and I was somewhat surprised that he was actually from New York. He is just that good in that movie. But in this show he is sensational and it must have been a very stressful experience for his co-stars trying to keep up with him. From what I understand, the majority of the show was unrehearsed. You would never know. All the actors make it look so easy and of course the show could never have been what it is, if not for Art Carney. Although, he is extremely annoying at most times, Gleason was dependent on him to get laughs.So, I will definitely say that this is not just a comedy show. This is a comedy show that all other comedy shows come from.

DKosty123 This is the series which established Gleason as the Greatest. It made Art Carney the best co-star. Audrey Meadows & Joyce Randolph were each good though Randolph got her job through connections to Gleason.Many of the best moments of this show were the chemistry between Meadows & Gleason. Somehow, each brings out the best in the other. Every member of the cast except Gleason got an Emmy. TV Academy, if your listening, it is years too late but an Emmy for Gleason for this show would make for good awards ceremony viewing. It is very easy to come up with great moments Gleason did on this series.Ralph Kramden, the bus driver, is always looking & scheming to get ahead & be somebody. Ed Norton, the sewer worker, is always a lame brained but willing helper. Alice Kramden is always struggling to understand Ralph & sometimes to try & fix his latest scheme which backfired again. Trixie Norton is Alice's true friend who always tries to console Alice, especially when Ed is involved in Ralph's latest problem.When a viewer gets into this series enough, the cast not only delivers great comedy. but the comedy has a heart as well. With all the sketches that were done of this in the early 50's & the skits & special done by Gleason on his Saturday night TV show for CBS, it seemed like this show ran longer than it did.These Dumont classic shows are the ones which are the classic's though the pilot from the early 50's with Pert Kelton instead of Audrey is interesting too. This show just makes you want to say Ralphie Boy!!!

schappe1 Jackie Gleason is one of the greatest talents in the history of American show business. His comic takes and blowhard act has produced so many professional and amateur imitators that none even has to question who or what you are imitating. Art Carney is one of America's greatest character actors. He created the greatest side-kick anyone ever had, a character with so many quirks you could probably build a show around him. Together they make one of the greatest comedy teams ever. But what makes this work is Audrey Meadows as Alice. When the Honeymooners first began, Ralph's wife was played by Pert Kelton, a battle ax of an actress who is just the kind of wife Ralph Cramden would wind up with in real life. The original skits were really comic 'fly on the wall' looks at the arguments the loudest neighbors in the neighborhood keep having. They were amusing enough to keep the skits going but there wasn't enough of a counterpoint to Ralph. His battles with Alice resembled Ralph's later battles with Alice's mother, (which Kelton came back, more appropriately, to play in the 60's series). When Gleason moved to CBS in 1952, Kelton was unavailable for health reasons and Gleason had to find a new Alice. Audrey Meadows, a glamour girl who worked with all the top comedians of television's golden era, decided she wanted the job. The now-famous story is that Jackie turned her down because he couldn't picture Meadows as Ralph Kramden's proletarian wife. Audrey had a friend photograph her in her kitchen just after she woke up and had the photo sent to Jackie, who immediately declared the woman in the picture to be 'his Alice' and demanded to know who the actress was. When he found out, Audrey had the job and 'The Honeymooners' became a TV classic.Meadows offered something Kelton didn't: a CONTRAST to Ralph, rather than a fellow gladiator. She was not only attractive, (if not allowed to be glamorous), but she was intelligent and non-abrasive, even if she had the strength to stand up to Ralph and give as good as she got in the battles. More than that, it became obvious why Ralph was such a dreamer and a blowhard. How did a guy like him ever get a woman like Alice to love him and marry him?He spends all his time either promoting himself and trying to be 'The King of the Castle' or scheming to become rich and important. It's the only way he knew to be big enough to deserve Alice. What he didn't know is that Alice offered him that rarity, unconditional love. Ralph didn't have to be a 'big man' to please her. He just had to be Ralph. He finds that out at the end of every episode but forgets it again in time for the next show, because if he didn't, they'd have no plot. Strengthened by this theme, the writes got more and more ambitious and The Honeymooners did stories of increasingly greater length, eventually taking up the whole show. Ralph Cramden became Gleason's most popular character because he was so human. He had much more dimension that Reggie Van Gleason, The Poor Soul, Charley Bratton or Joe the Bartender, as entertaining as they were. This in turn, led to the Classic 39, which became the flagship for the series and kept 'The Honeymooners' alive for decades after most of the Golden Age of Television had faded from memory.

ralsalongi I would have to rank The Honeymooners as one of the best comedy series' of all time. The show was hillarious, especially when Ralph and Norton would fight, or Alice and Ralph would fight. I loved when Norton got Ralph so mad that he'd throw him out. Alice and Ralph also got into some heated arguments where Ralph would always give her a "to the moon Alice," or "bang-zoom." In the end however, he would always give in and say, "baby you're the greatest."Another great thing about the show was it was pure comedy; no sex, no violence, just pure comedy. Unlike any of the commedy shows on today. Jackie really knew how to act; I can't believe he never won an emmy. The rest of the cast (Carney, Meadows, and Randolph) were also great in there roles. I also liked the woman who played Alice's Mother. (I don't know her name; she was uncreditted, as many of the supporting actors on the show were.)As for my favorite episodes, I loved the one called "TV or Not TV," where Ralph and Ed chipped in for a TV. My other favorites include "Funny Money," and the "Bensonhearst Bomber." In this one, Norton gets Ralph into a fight with a big bully and thinks of a scheme to get him out of it. I had other favorites too, but these are too numerous to mention. The Honeymooners, after fifty years, can never be beat. It remains the best of the best.P.S. - I even named my dog Kramden!