Houseboat
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Movie Reviews of Houseboat
Movie Review: Houseboat
Summary: 4 Stars
Houseboat is a highly entertaining Romantic Comedy featuring two superbly talented actors at the height of their careers: Cary Grant, and the incredible Sophia Loren.
Sophia's performance is perfect-what a woman!
Movie Review: Disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
I have a soft spot in my heart for romantic comedies of this era; so many were very good and held up well to this day. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them. Despite the terrific looks and charm of Cary Grant and the va-va-va-voom power of Sophia Loren, I was terrible bored. It took two nights and lots of popcorn to get through it, hoping something would make it worth watching.
The plot is predictable from the beginning, or just look at the DVD cover and you'll see the happy ending. The cast features two of the least cute boys you'll ever see in films; the girl was ok.
I give it three stars just because it did feature Cary Grant. I remember Sophia Loren as a terrific actress but you don't see any acting here; mostly she fills out her costumes spectacularly. Everyone seems horribly over-tanned, too....sort of creepy.
Skip it.
Movie Review: not the best for either of them
Summary: 3 Stars
I love Cary Grant films and who wouldn't love Sophia Loren? So I bought this film sight unseen and was I disappointed.
The problem is, the film is trying too hard to be "relevant" (or whatever the term was at the time). The writers are making a point (Father Doesn't Always Know Best), but they go so far overboard, turning Grant's children into spoiled brats who treat their father with disrespect he doesn't deserve. You wonder why Grant doesn't just leave them with the sister-in-law who wants to raise them.
I'm sure Grant and Loren did the best they could with the material, but unfortunately this was another case of Message Overpowering Movie.
Movie Review: house boat
Summary: 3 Stars
It was delivered a lot faster than they first stated.....so that was good. The quality of the DVD was OK.....colour could have been better and volume seemed to fluctuate throughout the movie......but it is still a nice,fun, family movie.Movie Review: Slight, predictable romantic comedy
Summary: 2 Stars
A government official (Cary Grant) tries to reconnect with his children (Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen, and Charles Herbert) after the death of his wife. The daughter of a symphony conductor (Sophia Loren) goes on the run to escape her overbearing father (Eduardo Ciannelli) and takes a job as nanny to the children. Romantic comedy ensues.
If there is any reason to watch this film, it is the chemistry between Grant and Loren, who had been in a real life relationship not long before filming began. The situation, however, is highly contrived and the scriptwriters (Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose) are all too willing to cast all logic aside for the sake of some rather slight gags. Characters do not behave in a consistent fashion, their personalities changing as the script requires so that the story can hit every predictable plot point on the way to its happy ending.