Man's Favorite Sport?
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Movie Reviews of Man's Favorite Sport?
Movie Review: A TALL FISH TALE
Summary: 4 Stars
A sort of throwback to the screwball comedies of the 1930's. It reminds one of the pairings of Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn such as Bringing Up Baby or The Philadelphia Story. By that as it may, I have watched this film several times over the years and I am repeatedly impressed with the level of comic intensity throughout the narrative. The plot line is simple enough: a fairly solid looking man has great success built on a secret. Rock Hudson has written a well-regarded book on fishing. The secret is Hudson has never been fishing in his life. Along comes Paula Prentiss who corners Hudson into participating in a fishing tournament at her outdoors resort. Of course, in the end Hudson wins the tournament and is exposed for the fraud he is. In spite of being proved to be a fake, Hudson comes out on top and falls for Prentiss as well.As a story none of this is believable but that is never the point. What we have is a story in which silliness is the point. How we get from beginning to end is where the art is. There is no serious message here which is why this film is as light and appealing now as it was forty years ago. It is also startlingly clean as sex comedies go. There is no foul language and the most "flesh" one sees is a smidgen of panty from an unzipped dress.
We tend to think ourselves as a bit superior about these old movies in that we know Hudson was gay in real life. "Ha Ha Ha. People back then really believed that Hudson would have fallen for Prentiss. .Ha Ha Ha" Well stuff it. Hudson was an actor who wanted to make us laugh. It would be a real tragedy if all we do is laugh at him.
Movie Review: Great story, weak screenplay
Summary: 4 Stars
Paula Prentiss comes off from the very start as a rather goofy female, complete with her slurred-sounding low voice. She is very obnoxious in the beginning, exasperating in the middle part, and when you get to know her better later, she just seems puzzling. If that's the character the casting director wanted, then he sure got a good one!
In the best of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedies, the movie seems too short to hold all the great dialogue resulting from the characters' personalities; in this movie though, you get the opposite feeling, that the characters can't just sit there, they HAVE to say SOMETHING to fill up the space. Prentiss' character is talkative, so she keeps up the meaningless banter. Hudson's character seems like the type to just silently let her ramble on....but instead, he joins in to keep it going, and here and there it just feels unnatural. The Hudson/Prentiss formula just doesn't seem like a winning combination.
Wonderful performances by all the cast, and entertaining business about fishing, lakes, etc.
Movie Review: Funny, funny, funny
Summary: 4 Stars
Rock Hudson was the epitome of the comedy actor. He (like Dick York and Cary Grant) could register complete befuddlement and finally resignation on his face. This movie was very underrated or perhaps under publicized because I saw it on TV long after it had made the theaters. The premise is creative and the cast is great. Why wasn't Paula Prentiss in more movies? She, too, was a wonderful comedy actress. Laughed and forgot my troubles for at least 90 minutes.Movie Review: One of Wife's Favorites
Summary: 4 Stars
I've never watched all the movie because it really isn't my type (and this coming from someone who had a video store for 10 years). However, many people I know love it. And this is the second copy I've bought for my wife because she loaned it to a sister after I bought the first one, it got passed between siblings and she was "jonesing" to have another one. And we all know it's important to keep the wife happy. She's wonderful and deserves it..TGMovie Review: Man's Favorite Sport?
Summary: 4 Stars
The concept is great. A know-it-all fisherman who wrote the book and dispenses advise doesn't know how to fish and then gets entered into a tournament. The fishing related story is funny. But the meely mouthed never shut up woman is not funny. It's more on the irritating side. Good and bad mixed into one. I got it because I have a friend who knows all about fishing but can't catch any fish!