Kiss Me, Stupid
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Movie Reviews of Kiss Me, Stupid
Movie Review: Soooo funny!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a REALLY funny movie, from the very beginning! Kim Novak is awesome, as usual, and Ray Walston is absolutely hilarious! Seems a little ahead of it's time, a surprising twist, totally enjoyable!Movie Review: Can Dean Act?
Summary: 3 Stars
Kiss Me Stupid is fair, but because it has some risqué moments, 1960's wisecracking, and mild female form, it is noteworthy as a predecessor to the coming sexual revolution of the late 60's. There's a mention by lovely Felicia Farr (Zelda, Walston's harried wife) of the magazine, Playboy, referring to her amorous husband. Indeed, Hefner's hedonistic philosophy permeates the film. We see actual unheard-of-before, wife pandering between Dean Martin and Ray Walston. By 1964, this was real edgy stuff. Naturally, after a dalliance with Dino, no harm done, and Zelda is back with a more sensitive husband. This is the Heffner philosophy: If it feels good with mutual consent, then no harm done. Pleasure is its own end. Hubby meanwhile, has his indiscretion with va-va-voom, Kim Novak. The 50's star is on the hefty side as her screen siren days come to a close.
Dean Martin plays his image, the freewheeling Las Vegas cabaret singer, drunk, and a womanizer. His real persona was actually the opposite. Dino was a family man. Nevertheless, audiences loved the rat-pack joker and flocked to the screens to see the swinging Dino. One can only wonder if Dean Martin could act. We'll never find out.
Movie Review: Potentially great but ruined by Walston
Summary: 3 Stars
This Billy Wilder movie is potentially great but ruined by Ray Walston's poor acting. The movie is much more sexually explicit than most movies of its time period. Kim Novak is great as the sexy waitress subtly dodging the fingers of the men who are trying to fondle or pinch her well-rounded ass. But Walston's jarring portrayal of a jelous husband almost ruins the picture.Movie Review: A rare misfire for Wilder, but not an uninteresting one
Summary: 2 Stars
Kiss Me, Stupid is an interesting misfire, but despite a promising and outrageous setup - Ray Walston's would be songwriter tries to keep Dean Martin's promiscuous crooner in the small town he breaks down in long enough to buy his songs by using his wife as bait: but, being insanely jealous, he hires Kim Novack to pretend to be his wife only to still find himself becoming jealous - it never really delivers the laughs. Walston, replacing Peter Sellers after he dropped out because of a heart attack, is too broad and Novak's Marilyn-with-a-cold impression too artificial, while Dean Martin's gleeful self-parody as a drunken lecherous and very superficial crooner called Dino sometimes seems a little too sidelined. Only Cliff Osmond really comes up with the goods with a performance that's often as theatrical as the patently phoney soundstage sets. Some nice moments, but this time Wilder and Diamond seem too enamoured of the censor-baiting premise to make it really work.
Movie Review: strains to be funny...
Summary: 2 Stars
The one and only reason to see this is the gorgeous Kim Novak. Novak has charisma to spare. Makes her
character, Polly the Pistol, fun, lovely, and--absolutely believable.
Walston seems miscast. Martin not very good at all. Writing is contrived & doesn't work.
Some claim Wilder was a genius... Seems, to me, he was far better as a director, than a writer.