GamerTab That was an excellent one.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

jacobs-greenwood This is a very funny film, definitely worth watching. It not only stars the great comedy duo from the Thin Man series, William Powell and Myrna Loy, but also features Frank McHugh. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke (who directed the pair in The Thin Man (1934)), this comedy drama's screenplay was written by Charles Lederer, George Oppenheimer, and Harry Kurnitz; Leon Gordon and Maurine Watkins's story was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel.Powell was a dashing con man that was bumped on the head such that he'd forgotten who he was and had become a boring clay pot manufacturer in a small town, married to Loy. However, the film opens with Powell on a cruise ship who, having just rescued con man McHugh, now remembers his previous life but not his current one. Finding that the person he'd been is actually worth something (e.g. has money in the bank), Powell, with help from the enabling McHugh, determines to "steal" his own money and hit the road.However, when the cruise ship docks, Powell's character is met by an attractive woman (Loy) that he finds out is his wife, though she's seeking a divorce from the boring man he was, to marry another, Herbert (Donald Douglas). Intrigued, Powell decides to return to the small town, with McHugh in tow, to learn more.Of course, there are a series of hilarious misadventures, as Powell romantically pursues his own disillusioned wife Loy, causing her to see a side of her husband that she'd never seen before, which interests her. But, a former con man associate of Powell's, Duke Sheldon (Edmund Lowe) shows up, convinced there must be a bundle to be schemed from the town folk, and threatens to disrupt things.Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer appears as a boy scout in Powell's small town character's troop; Charles Halton (uncredited) plays his dad. Harlan Briggs, Henry Hayden & Jason Robards Sr. appear uncredited as well.

robert-temple-1 William Powell and Myrna Loy! A pure recipe for alchemical gold, and nowhere better seen outside of the 'Thin Man' series than here. This is a better film than LOVE CRAZY which they made the following year. This is a truly hilarious film, with a wonderful script and first rate gag lines, with plenty of opportunities for laughing out loud. The story itself is, or at least seems, flimsy and nonsensical. William Powell was hit on the head nine years earlier and has had amnesia. Having previously been a con man, he has along with the amnesia experienced a total personality change. He has settled down and become a respectable citizen of Habsberg, Pennsylvania, where he is a pillar of the community, the head of the Boy Scouts, and a member of the Rotary Club, the Lions Club, and all those worthy bodies. He manages a pottery. He never touches alcohol, his hobby is taxidermy, and he even keeps a stuffed squirrel by his bedside which he stuffed himself. He is also pathologically mean with money and counts every penny obsessively. In other words, he has become a super-bore, and his attractive wife Myrna Loy can't stand being ignored anymore and has filed for divorce from this most disappointing, annoying, and unsexy husband. At this point he is hit on the head again and reverts to being his previous mischievous self, whom Loy had never known. This leads to all sorts of comedic escapades and because he now finds Myrna Loy irresistible, Powell sets about wooing her afresh as his new/old self (hence the title of the film). The strange thing is that there are documented cases in the annals of psychology of this sort of amnesia-associated personality change taking place, and also of the reverting back. It is rare and extreme condition, but it does happen. It is known as a dissociated fugue-state. (See my review of HOME AT SEVEN with Ralph Richardson where I discuss this psychological issue further.) The general public will just accept all this as 'a bit of hokum', not being aware that such things have actually happened from time to time. However, this is no time to be serious. This film is intended as pure fun. It works because of the magical sparkle between Powell and Loy, which chiefly owes its magic to Powell's remarkable and humorous personality and the unique response to it which seems to have emerged spontaneously from Myrna Loy from the moment they met. Theirs was a cinematic matching made in heaven. The two of them together really are so amazing that one ceases to pay any attention to what the film is about, and one just watches, mesmerized, as they interact with one another. They could be sitting and knitting or reciting the telephone book and it would barely matter. In this film, Myrna Loy finds 'the man she always thought was hidden inside' her husband and 'loves him again'. However, he then is hit on the head again. And I won't ruin anything by saying what happens next. One of my little hobbies is imitating the cooing of doves. I had not realized that William Powell was there before me, but then I must not reveal too much about what he is cooing about, as it might not make it past the Hays Office.

bkoganbing When the movie going public demands you back 14 times you know that something is being done right by both the studio and the players involved.William Powell and Myrna Loy hit a real career high point in this film with a rather original plot gimmick. The amnesia gimmick is stood on its head in this film.Powell and Loy are married and he's on a business trip involving an ocean voyage. Powell is something of a stuffed shirt when we meet him on the ship. When a drunken Frank McHugh falls overboard, Powell dives in to rescue him and in the process gets himself knocked out.When he comes to, like in Random Harvest, he discovers his former identity which is that of a confidence man and as it turns out McHugh also is a full time grifter.Unlike Ronald Colman who spent the whole of Random Harvest searching for his lost years, Powell has his identity there. Returning to his town with his new found friend McHugh, he finds wife Loy together with the fact he's a person of some means. But he also finds out that Loy was planning to get rid of him.Powell together with McHugh and former associate Edmund Lowe try to work an elaborate con game on the town. At the same time Powell is falling for the woman he married and embarks on a campaign to win her back. Those two agenda items come into conflict. Bill and Myrna are at their best in I Love You Again. Two highlight scenes for me are Powell's cooing courtship of Loy and his trip through the woods in his Boy Ranger uniform with his Boy Ranger troop. This must have been the same outfit that Jimmy Stewart was trying to get a summer camp for in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The goings on are similar to what Powell went through fishing in Libeled Lady.I Love You Again is movie comedy at its very best. Don't miss it if TCM runs it again.

harry-76 What's it about Powell and Loy that's makes for so perfect a screen match?For one thing, they look like they're having such a good time, playing off one another's deft personality quirks. What one leaves unsaid, the other speaks up and answers. When one "teeters," the other "totters." It's like watching a subtle game of chess with upbeat tempo.As Nora and Nick Charles in "The Thin Man" series, they were unsurpassed; yet equally as good in other films, like "I Love You Again."In this clever little comedy, Powell's given most of the pratfalls, while Loy's more the "straight," which she handles with her usual charm and skill.About the only weak thing here may be its all-too-generic, forgettable title. Otherwise, it's a film full of laughs, and another bull's eye for one of the screen's all-time "duo champs."