This review is really a reminder to myself in case I ever am faced with watching this again and forgot what I thought of it.
This movie stars Doris Day and Rod Taylor. This is a screwball comedy. RomCom. Doris works as a tour guide - or something - at a NASA plant. Rod is a big whig that apparently run things at NASA, which I believe makes him her boss. That's not necessarily relevant except that they meet when she's going to swim under a glass bottom boat as a mermaid and she gets caught on his fishing line.
They bump into each other when her heels get stuck in some dust dump. He likes her, he offends her. And so the story goes. There's corny comedy like when some maintenance guy gets his foot stuck in the trash, which has a cake in it, and they both end up a mess. It's odd, over-the-top, but that's this movie.
There's the scene with the runaway boat that rod's controlling from a remote control probably miles away. Much of the scene looks really fake, but it is what it is.
This movie feels like they're trying to do what was done in arsenic and old lace, but it's not as good.
Still, I am a fan of Doris and her temperament sometimes lends to dry humor, so it's entertaining to me.
I didn't care for the singing scenes, but there wasn't that much and that's good, because it's not a musical.
Doris is taken for a spy, and that's when the movie turns a bit. Doris overhears Rod saying that she's too dumb to be a spy.
In the end, they get married and that's weird, because it's like his whole thing was an act, she's beneath him, she hears him acting all condescending, calling her dumb, yet after all the corny spy stuff subsides, the movie abruptly ends with them married and zipping away in a boat.
Overall, this movie wasn't as good as I was led to believe. During SummerUnderTheStars, TCM talked about what a great film this was. I think Doris did a fine acting job and I like the chemistry with Rod, but this movie is lost in a corny story and strange attempts at humor.
There are better movies to watch, but if I'm in the mood for a Doris movie, I might pick this or watch her sing It's Magic in Romance on the High Seas.
This movie stars Doris Day and Rod Taylor. This is a screwball comedy. RomCom. Doris works as a tour guide - or something - at a NASA plant. Rod is a big whig that apparently run things at NASA, which I believe makes him her boss. That's not necessarily relevant except that they meet when she's going to swim under a glass bottom boat as a mermaid and she gets caught on his fishing line.
They bump into each other when her heels get stuck in some dust dump. He likes her, he offends her. And so the story goes. There's corny comedy like when some maintenance guy gets his foot stuck in the trash, which has a cake in it, and they both end up a mess. It's odd, over-the-top, but that's this movie.
There's the scene with the runaway boat that rod's controlling from a remote control probably miles away. Much of the scene looks really fake, but it is what it is.
This movie feels like they're trying to do what was done in arsenic and old lace, but it's not as good.
Still, I am a fan of Doris and her temperament sometimes lends to dry humor, so it's entertaining to me.
I didn't care for the singing scenes, but there wasn't that much and that's good, because it's not a musical.
Doris is taken for a spy, and that's when the movie turns a bit. Doris overhears Rod saying that she's too dumb to be a spy.
In the end, they get married and that's weird, because it's like his whole thing was an act, she's beneath him, she hears him acting all condescending, calling her dumb, yet after all the corny spy stuff subsides, the movie abruptly ends with them married and zipping away in a boat.
Overall, this movie wasn't as good as I was led to believe. During SummerUnderTheStars, TCM talked about what a great film this was. I think Doris did a fine acting job and I like the chemistry with Rod, but this movie is lost in a corny story and strange attempts at humor.
There are better movies to watch, but if I'm in the mood for a Doris movie, I might pick this or watch her sing It's Magic in Romance on the High Seas.