Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

quarterwavevertical Gilbert and Sullivan were well-known for poking fun at the celebrities and public officials of their day. They did so in a number of well-crafted operettas (e. g., "HMS Pinafor" and "The Mikado") to the delight of audiences. I've heard that many of those lampooned, satirized, or otherwise pilloried in those works considered it an honour to be treated in that fashion.Regrettably, the movie "S.O.B." is far below that standard. It has all the subtlety of a head-on collision and, worse, is haphazard and unfunny in its presentation.I imagine that it was meant to be some sort of inside joke as it seemed that many of the characters were based on real people, some of which were, presumably, easily recognized by those in Hollywood. Since most of us lead real lives in the real world, just who the targets of the director's barbs actually were is never made clear nor is there any attempt to explain who they are to the audience.The whole movie comes off as a two-hour long temper tantrum by director Blake Edwards. How DARE Hollywood not regard everything he does as pure genius? The fact of the matter is that artistic misfires have happened for centuries. Beethoven, for example, revised his opera "Leonora" three times before he finally had success after making major changes, including renaming it as "Fidelio".But this isn't the first time that Edwards satirized Hollywood. About 15 years earlier, he made the movie "The Party" with Peter Sellers in the lead. Although that film didn't have much of a plot, it was certainly more polished than this clunker of a film.For the most part, the actors drift through their parts, almost as if they knew it was a paycheque movie. The only character that's interesting is the phoney-baloney physician played by Robert Preston, but most of the rest are redundant as they contribute next to nothing to the overall story. Why, for example, was Marisa Berenson's character included? (Why is she even in the movie to begin with as she certainly isn't much of an actress. Watch her in "Barry Lyndon" and you'll know why I made that comment.)In addition, there are details in the movie that are absolutely unimportant and could easily have been deleted. I mean, does the audience really need to know about Robert Vaughn's character's personal habits?Not even the ending is particularly original. The funeral arrangements appear to have been lifted from the movies "The Loved One" and "The Vikings".It pained me to see William Holden in this clunker. It was to be his last movie and his performance was quite disappointing, considering that his finest role was probably that of Pike Bishop in "The Wild Bunch". He certainly didn't look at all well in "S.O.B." and died soon after it was released.I first saw this movie on cable TV about a year after it was in the theatres. I thought it was dreadful back then. I saw it again recently and it hasn't improved with time.Avoid this one and watch "The Party" instead.

Michael O'Keefe Full of nonsense comedy from writer/director Blake Edwards. Felix Farmer(Richard Mulligan)is a well known producer with a string of hits, but falls upon hard times when his latest movie, a full blown musical, is not received well by test audiences. The powers that be go into panic mode and decide something must be done and for the better of the film it must be re-edited. Farmer comes out of his funk with a major idea of having the star of the movie, his wife Sally(Julie Andrews), bare her breasts. Since she has such a clean pollyanna image, this bit of titillation will highlight the new soft-porn version of his film.Some strong performances from familiar stars like Robert Preston, Larry Hagman, Stuart Margolin, Loretta Swit, Robert Vaughn, Larry Storch and William Holden in his last motion picture. Of course the draw is the squeaky clean Andrews actually showing her breasts. Situational humor; just nothing that really made me laugh. The soundtrack is courtesy of the legendary Henry Mancini.

inspectors71 Seeing this movie as a 21 year old was not a good idea. I was literate and mature enough to understand that this was an adult satire, but I was too much of a little boy to understand the grownup-ness of the characters. Ultimately, my 48 year old mind understands that I missed something in SOB, but I can't get by the quarter century old memory of thinking that this Blake Edwards comedy was a dud.I do remember laughing. And Rosanna Arquette's stripping in front of William Holden ("If that's nothing, I can't even conceive of what 'something' might be!"). There was lots of sharp dialogue and slapstick. Julie Andrews looked, well, perky, but by the time she did her newsworthy strip, what little attention span I was paying to the movie had spooled out. Yet that's all I remember. A lot of insider jokes and bared breasts. This isn't so much a review as a confession that I didn't get the movie. I remember feeling faintly disgusted with Mary Poppins popping out, in a repulsive, leathery musical number. I had a narrow window of opportunity to get SOB, but I missed it.I'm not really interested in giving it another shot.

Isaac5855 S.O.B. was director Blake Edwards' own "All that Jazz", a self-indulgent, slightly over-the-top, slightly disguised look at a particularly period in his Hollywood career where he and wife Julie Andrews were treated pretty despicably by the Hollywood big shots who can make or break people in Hollywood with one telephone call. This film is loosely based on the time after Edwards had completed his wife's film STAR! and the studio hated it, wrested control of the film from Edwards, cut like an hour of footage from the film, retitled it "These Were the Happy Times" and then tried to shelve it. After all of this Edwards couldn't get arrested in Hollywood until he hit a bullseye with the 1979 comedy "10." But this 1981 comedy was a reminder to Hollywood bigwigs that Edwards had not forgotten their treatment of him. In S.O.B.(which, BTW, stands for Standard Operational Bull***t), Richard Mulligan plays the manic Hollywood director, Felix Farmer, who is suicidal after his film "Night Wind", starring his wife, Sally Miles (Julie Andrews) bombs miserably. Farmer is practically written off in Hollywood until he gets the inspiration to re-shoot the film as a near pornographic extravaganza and have his wife bare her breasts for the first time on screen. This uncompromising look at the inner workings of Hollywood may seem a little off the wall. These are not pleasant people for the most part and every character in the film, even Andrews, has their own agenda. The merciless screenplay is well executed by a glorious all-star cast backing up Mulligan and Andrews, including William Holden, Robert Vaughn, Robert Preston (hysterical as a doctor who gives out pills like candy), Robert Webber, Loretta Swit, Craig Stevens, Stuart Margolin, Shelley Winters, Marisa Berensen, Rosanna Arquette, Robert Loggia, and Larry Hagman. There are several funny scenes in this film and a lot of interesting things happen that by the time Andrews does bare her breasts, it is somewhat anti-climactic, but there is much to enjoy here for those willing to pay the attention that is required as the story is painted on a broad canvas with a lot of characters, but it is worth the trip and, after I saw it the first time, I wanted to see it again and again and think it is one of the great sleepers of 1980's.