Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

sonny starr This is one of the all time comedy greats. Jerry Lewis plays a guy who can do nothing right, (to the extreme). Jerry plays a young man who wants to make something of himself so he can marry the girl of his dreams. Jill St. John is wonderful as the girl of his affection.I can't say enough about John McGiver. He plays the "milk toast", Mr. Tuttle. I've seen him in a number of fun films and he always gives a strong performance. His wife, who wore the pants, was played by Hollywood legend, Agnes Moorehead. She gave a strong performance in this film. She was simply wonderful. The things she puts Jerry up to are extremely over the top! Very funny.I was to young to see this film when it came out. However as a child I can remember seeing it on television. I can remember my dad falling out of his chair and rolling on the floor in laughter. I remember joining him on the floor and finding it hard to breath because I was laughing so hard. My mom was hitting the side of her chair and screaming. You can't buy memories like that. I truly believe Jerry Lewis was the best comic of his time. For that matter, Our time.Jerry Lewis is a true comic who isn't afraid to be the butt of every joke. That's what separates great comics from the rest. People like Jack Benny, Phyllis Diller,George Burns, The Three Stooges and on and on. It wasn't about them, It was about laughter. If you want to take a break from the stress of life, if just for a moment, and simply enjoy a little nuttiness for the sake of nuttiness, this is the film for you.

JasparLamarCrabb After THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY, this is Jerry Lewis's best film. Like DD, WMTS is directed by the great Frank Tashlin. The sight gags are hysterical, highlighted by a very funny fight between Lewis and a very aggressive vacuum cleaner. Nancy Kulp, herself a sight gag, is pretty amusing as a great white hunter. Lewis gets a terrific foil in shrewish department store owner Agnes Moorehead. Although Jill St. John is a bit harder to take as her daughter. She's insistent on being with Jerry and that's tough to digest. Lewis usually kept his leading ladies to the Ina Balin type...semi-ingenues who would believably be smitten with him. Nevertheless, the movie is terrific with the now famous typewriter gag.

b1b1b1c27 Reasons to watch and enjoy this film have been enumerated by other commentators here. Some others:1) The way Jill St. John's character, against all reason, is ga-ga over Jerry's. Seems like the fantasy of every dorky guy in the world: Just keep pluggin', and eventually a hot babe will develop an unreasoning crush on you.2) An early and egregious example of product placement! After all, the flick IS set in a department store, so we're treated to not-so-subliminal ads for Browning rifles (worked into Jerry's scene with Nancy Kulp), Planter's nuts (in the toasted ants scene), MacGregor outerwear etc. And of course, the star of the film (much like the chandelier in the stage musical "Phantom of the Opera") is really the Hoover vacuum cleaner in the famous appliance department scene. It even has the word HOOVER boldly emblazoned across its bag, and the name only gets bigger and bigger as the bag inflates to Thanksgiving-Day-parade balloon size.3) Already mentioned, but bears repeating: Francesca Bellini is enchantingly gorgeous, and really seems a much more exciting catch than Jill St. John!4) As mentioned, fine performances by the character actors Agnes Moorehead, John McGiver (one of his more interesting outings) and Ray Walston.5) The true inspiration of the film is the way each of the many vignettes or set pieces builds from a pianissimo of silliness all the way up to a triple fortissimo of surreality, leaving sense, taste and every other useless item behind. It is indeed a live action cartoon, and in Jerry Lewis it has a cartoon character come to life.

Petri Pelkonen Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffier, a poodle dog walker who is going to marry a rich girl named Barbara Tuttle (Jill St. John) who works as an elevator operator at a department store.Barbara doesn't want Norman to know that she's rich.Barbara's mother Phoebe Tuttle (Agnes Moorehead) doesn't want her daughter to marry such a fool as Norman so she gets Norman a job from the store Barbara works and gets him the worst jobs.Norman has to eat fried ants for example.Frank Tashlin's Who's Minding the Store from 1963 is filled with hilarious situations.Jerry Lewis causes disasters and makes people crack up.It's hard to say the best movie of Jerry Lewis but this must be one of the them.It has everything Jerry Lewis fans need.Watch this movie if you want to get a good laugh a'la Jerry Lewis.