It was awful! I did like Brewer's place at the beach but that's no reason to watch a movie. It's amazing how a movie that's more recent, fifty-years old, seems so much more dated than a lot of the movies I've seen from decades earlier.
I think it's because in the older movies I'm amazed at how much has stayed the same but in the sixties when things were supposed to be more modern I notice how far we've come. I think this is the era, or maybe it was the fifties, when they movie industry focused more on trying to shock, impress, or appeal to audiences rather than focus on telling a story.
The actors, oh the actors... I love Debra Kerr but I just couldn't buy her being this frivolous. I also couldn't see her married to Frank Sinatra. They had zero chemistry. Sinatra was a family man in real life but I felt he was totally miscast. I didn't feel any warmth towards his family even his own real-life daughter. I don't know what that was about.
Nancy Sinatra seemed too old for the part and the guy who played her fiance was seriously annoying. It may have been the character but the actor didn't redeem him. I forget her name but the girl who wanted to marry Dan was as boring as they get. The mother-in-law had more pep in her step and more youthful energy than this girl. BORING!
And Dean Martin, he was the worst of all! To me he always seemed like a slimy drunk no matter what he did; he looked it. To have him play the suave playboy bachelor was probably true to life but, again, I wasn't buying it at all. He seemed creepy, old, and drunk. Being Dean Martin probably got him access to a lot of woman but as a random guy I doubt he'd do as well with the ladies. There was no chemistry between him and Kerr either. The movie is just horribly bad in my opinion; every part of it.
Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]
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mherne31
7 years ago
I agree! It was pretty awful! The part where Frank was doing something (i'm not sure what?) with his daughter's friend Lisa was downright creepy! And his weird bachelor parties with the ladies later kind of makes you doubt that his wife even wants to take him back after his casual whorin' around; in fact it doesn't seem convincing that the character even wants to go back to his wife at all. A couple of scenes with Dean seems like he might have even been a bit tipsy when they were filming. Also, did they have to make Debra Kerr's character so shrill, dowdy and foolish? Her clothes seemed kind of frumpy and a bit larger than she needed and she was technically playing a character that was only in her forties. It was an odd (and somewhat tiresome at times) film that seemed like everybody was kind of phoning it in! Except the mother-in-law maybe...she was cute.
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