Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

JohnHowardReid Make that 7.5! As might be expected of a Jerry Lewis vehicle, "The Ladies Man" (sic, no apostrophe) is a very broad, slapstick farce. What is not expected, however, is the movie's gorgeous settings and its exquisite color photography. In fact, as might be anticipated, the photography and the sets are far more pleasing than the "comedy". True, the Lewis film starts well with a good (if none too well-timed) gag borrowed from W.C. Fields, and then moves to a well- timed graduation ceremony with Lewis delightfully exploding through the serried ranks of be-gowned graduates. After this delightful intro, we have to wait for near the end of the movie when Lewis arrives in Hollywood to wreck havoc on the brilliant $500,000 set for which the art directors should have won an Academy Award. Incredibly, they were not even nominated! I regard it as the best single set ever created for a motion picture. Also on hand are no less than 31 gorgeously attired ladies, including former child star, Gloria Jean. Needless to say, the dress designer wasn't nominated for an award either. Never mind, at least Gloria and Miss Traubel do get to sing a couple of songs. Like "The Bellboy", this film is episodic and disjointed, but it does have some splendid interludes with George Raft and Harry James (playing themselves). Lewis' direction is much more sure and competent than his previous essays behind the camera. Sure there are still mediocre scenes that he allows to run too long. And worse still, there are scenes so nauseating that they should have been left on the cutting-room floor! Needless to say, as often happens with movies that offer a mixed bag that varies from the sublime to the pits, box-office takings of $3.1 million were somewhat less than the negative cost, and Lewis was never again given a budget of this size to play around with.

MartinHafer Jerry Lewis made one of his best solo films in 1960. "The Bellboy" had VERY little plot and consisted of a bazillion little gags all strung together with Jerry working as a bellboy at a fancy hotel. The gags came so rapidly that even the ones that fell flat didn't slow the film down and you can't help but like the movie. A year later, Lewis created a film with some similarities to "The Bellboy" but it just didn't work as well for two main reasons. First, there is a tiny bit more plot--but this was a minor problem. Second, and by far the biggest problem, is Lewis' performance. He is LOUD--L, O, U, D!!!!!! Throughout the film is literally screams about every minute and there is very little subtlety to the film. A few of the characters (such as Miss Wellenmelon) were also incredibly loud--as if screaming or singing in a LOUD voice was funny in and of itself. Now it's not a total loss, as, like the other film, there are so many gags that occasionally they worked--such as the performance by Jerry's mother (you gotta see that one) or 'Baby'. But, again and again, all the momentum is derailed by just going too far--too loud, too unsubtle and just too much. It's a shame, as some things about the film are great and sure could have worked a lot better. For example, the set is about the coolest one I have seen--very similar to a giant doll house. It must have cost a fortune to build this cutout house--and in some of the long shots, it really impresses. Had the film only shown more restraint, it EASILY could have been scored a 7 or higher. A shame, but a wasted opportunity.

brucewla As the reviewer said before me, this just wasn't funny. I had prepared a review of this film after seeing it last week on TCM, but I guess I was too harsh and they didn't post it, but I still want to share my thoughts, so if you all don't mind, I'll try to be kinder and gentler.I have always been (sort of) a Jerry Lewis fan, in fact when I was a small child, I really loved him, and I think that maybe, when I was maybe 10 or 12 years old, and saw a movie like this, I probably thought it was much funnier, than I do now, as a middle aged person. As I have stated in other reviews, I think that Jerry's films from this time frame where he was in complete control of the production suffered from that, because they focused too much on him, and his antics, and not the story per se. And as I stated, when you compare a film like this to one of the very good ones that were made back then (like the Nutty Professor), it just seems all the more a shame.Basically Jerry plays his "the little boy that never grew up" character, again, and here he finishes college I think but finds out his girl friend evidently found someone else, so he decides he hates girls now, and runs away west, looking for work, and wouldn't you know it the only job he can find is working at a (get ready for it) women's boarding house, that has, of course about 511 gorgeous girls running around. So for about 2 hours we have: Jerry making noises, Jerry making faces, Jerry destroying things, Jerrry making more faces, Jerry making more noises, etc. In fact, as far as "spoilers," I can't tell you how it ends, because I only made it halfway through.It was a shame how bad this movie was, truly truly awful.

Petri Pelkonen Herbert H.Heebert is depressed because his girlfriend has left him for someone else.He goes looking for a job and finds one-from a house that is filled with beautiful women.Every guy's dream job.But how can Herbert deal with such a working place, and with all those gorgeous ladies?Jerry Lewis is great as always.He always makes me laugh.He can be a nutty professor or a ladies' man, he's good at whatever he plays.