Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

utgard14 Cary Grant's last film is an enjoyable, albeit entirely unnecessary, remake of the classic The More The Merrier. That film starred Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, and Charles Coburn. Grant play the Coburn role as an older man who tries to play matchmaker to a younger couple he is sharing an apartment with. The couple here are Jim Hutton and Samantha Eggar. Poor substitutes for screen legends McCrea and Arthur but both are likable. The original took place during WW2 so it used the wartime housing shortage as part of the plot. This moves things to Tokyo during the Summer Olympics in order to keep the plot intact of Grant not being able to find a room anywhere else. On the whole, it's an amusing movie but probably much less so if you've seen the original. This is pretty much a scene-for-scene remake with few changes. Grant's a rough fit for the role as it is intended but he does give it his best, using his charm and wonderful screen persona to great effect. He's certainly the best thing about the film and, at all times, my attentions were on him rather than his co-stars. Obviously I would recommend you see the classic 1943 film over this. But, if you have seen that, there's no harm in giving this one a try to see a different cast approach the same story. As far as last films of great stars goes, this could be worse. Just look at some of Grant's contemporaries and you'll see some truly sad ways to end a career. Cary wisely knew to get out while the getting was good. That's a lesson a lot of stars could still learn today.

Davalon-Davalon I've seen a lot of bombs in my time, but this one blasts them all to hell. On the advice of a colleague who insisted this was a fabulous movie that had to be seen, I purchased the DVD. I should say that I live in Japan and am fascinated by any film produced in the West about Japan. I thought this film would qualify. How wrong I was.There is absolutely no logic to a single frame of this film. We are asked to believe that Cary Grant, who plays Sir William Rutland, arrives in Tokyo at the height of the Olympic Games in 1964 two days earlier than he was supposed to, and for reasons known only to God, assumes that the hotel he would have been staying at two days later is going to have a room for him. Why would it? Then he goes to the British Embassy and meets Julius, an obvious screaming queen (but who is somehow engaged to marry Samantha Eggar -- we will meet her soon enough, don't worry), and the second secretary to the ambassador, who is so pompous that you will have to resist the urge to slap his face (especially hard to do since his face is on a screen). Rutland demands that Julius help him find a room. Julius points out to him that it's the Olympics and that there aren't any rooms. Then Rutland magically finds an advert on the Embassy bulletin board seeking someone to share an apartment. The sex is not specified – this contributes to the big "reveal" as the person seeking "someone" is "Chris," performed by Samantha Eggar, a perfectly beautiful British actress whose talents are absolutely totally wasted in this piece of flotsam/jetsam. Rutland takes a taxi to Chris's apartment building the instant that Chris happens to be arriving home (from what/why/where we will never learn. Shopping? Job? Who knows?). Long story short: Rutland forces his way into Chris's apartment – literally (and we're supposed to think this is funny?) and essentially thrusts his money in her hand, "making" him her roommate. Chris really is a proper young lady and she's at a loss to know how to get rid of this boorish dolt. The "story" bungles along until we meet Steve (Jim Hutton), the eventual "love interest," who stomps his way through the rest of the film with as much grace as Godzilla. Rutland, "feeling sorry" for Steve because he has no place to stay (and yet has apparently been wandering around Tokyo looking fresh as a daisy), drags him back to Chris's apartment and "sublets" his "half" of "his room." Just imagine the horror of it all! A proper young Englishwoman, engaged, living with two obnoxious boorish clods. Now, Rutland has his charms (he IS Cary Grant), but Steve thinks that he owns the world, shouting, screaming and stomping his way through the movie. I'm sorry, why is this entertaining?Then, again for reasons that remain incomprehensible, Rutland decides that Steve is the right man for Chris, and not Julius. (And yet, why? When he, Rutland, is the obvious best choice for her, despite the fact that he's married – which we "know" from two cutesy phone calls to his wife, whom he doesn't hesitate to explain about his living situation with a young woman – all played for laughs, mais bien sur!)The "charming, coy, cute, darling, frothy," and, apparently "brashly good-natured... hilarious" (quote from a review from the NYT) plot goes dump-dump-dumping along, trashing and destroying everything in its path. Entertained yet?But there's more. Why was this film made in Tokyo? There was no reason for it, whatsoever. None. The entire country and its people are just pawns to the special trio who graces the screen. Watching this movie made me cringe at how righteous Westerners were and how they just blabbered away in English to everyone in Japan and just assumed they would snap to. Yes, there were a few laughs that were harmless, based on cultural differences. But overall this was a ghastly, tedious, obnoxious waste of time and it's really sad to know that Mr. Grant sailed out on this "epic." Thank God for "North by Northwest"!

Nooshin Navidi This film is a remake of a 1940s film, but the supersaturated Technicolor and all the other '60s aesthetics & sensibilities make it an iconic film n its own right. There's so much that made this movie memorable for me: the dialog, the cast, the location, the music... this was actually filmed during the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It was Cary Grant's last film and he is very amusing as Sir Rutland. The rest of the cast are equally endearing & unforgettable. It was funny how many scenes of this movie were still fresh in my mind after so many years, like Christine's kimono, the two Japanese kids on the stairs, the coffee percolator, the hilarious walking marathon, the shoji screens (which themselves were like characters in the story.) Pure joy! ~NN

KelcyCO I have always loved this movie. It was a typical light, romantic comedy that Cary Grant was renown for and it was a perfect vehicle for him to transition to the older man supporting role. It used all his talents for keeping it light, witty and intelligent without it being slapstick. I was sad to realize it was Grant's last movie as he could have had another ten or twenty years playing such roles. It was our loss. I also like others in the cast despite others criticisms. Eggar and Hutton had just the right amount of chemistry. Setting it during the Tokyo Olympics made it contemporary for the times. And unlike many other 60's movies this one does not date itself all that much.