Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

JLRMovieReviews Doris Day's upbeat, cheery, and sunshiny career (with exceptions like "The Man who Knew Too Much," "Love Me or Leave Me," and "Julie") ended with "With Six You Get Eggroll," a film which shows how a father with one daughter gets along with a mother and her two sons, when the parents marry. The courting and romance of father Brian Keith and Doris is rather sweet, but the complications arise after their marriage, as to who moves into whose house and who sleeps where, which causes Brian and Doris to have a fight, and of course it leads inevitably to an outlandish and zany ending. This is one of Ms. Day's not-so-subtle movies, as the laughs come courtesy mainly from the youngest boy and his disposition and his crazy antics dealing with the change forced on him. This seems to have a juvenile sense of humor, but I've never laughed so hard in my life. I give this a '6', only because, while funny, it seems to come with a price of feeling rather uncouth, and maybe an embarrassment to the career of all concerned, including a young Barbara Hershey as Brian Keith's daughter. This came out a year before "The Brady Bunch," so one wonders if this movie inspired it. Directed by "The Andy Griffith Show" 's star Howard Morris, who played Ernest T. Bass, this is one family film that will either be a hit with families laughing at obvious jokes or fall flat with those who demand more from a Doris Day outing.

brefane The 60's weren't too kind to Doris Day. She reportedly turned down The Graduate, and did Caprice(67) Jumbo(62) Send Me No Flowers(64) Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?(68) Do Not Disturb(65) The Glass Bottom Boat(66) The Ballad of Josie(67) and Move Over, Darling(63) instead. With Six You Get Eggroll, what an awful title! is the last, though not necessarily the least of the dreary bunch. This was Barbara Hershey's first film and Doris' last and that's about the most interesting thing about this poky sitcom posing as a theatrical film. Similar to The Brady Bunch, Yours, Mine and Ours(68), and Day's own TV series, With Six YOu Get Eggroll was released the same year as 2001:A Space Odyssey, Rosemary's Baby, Faces, Planet of the Apes, Wild in the Streets, Pretty Poison, and The Night of the Living Dead, and it's a dull and witless comedy that was a relic even in 1968. And the gratuitous appearance of the Grass Roots, and the hippies in the background are a hopeless attempt to seem up to date. Talented Brian Keith takes a back seat to a bunch of "cute" kids, George Carlin, and a dog. Starting with an animated title sequence, the whole thing looks cheap and ugly, and the supporting cast made up of familiar faces from TV is unappealing and forgettable.

Ripshin Doris Day ended her film career with this rather lame little movie, one of many contributions to the "Let's-join-our-families-together" genre of the late 60s. "Your, Mine and Ours" covered the same material, only better, and "The Brady Bunch" brought it all to fruition a year later.The film wants to combine the standard Doris Day "sex farce" of the period, with a typical 60s family sitcom, and the results are disappointing, at best.The children are a bratty bunch, and the early screeching scenes almost made me turn the whole thing off. I did love seeing the styles, architecture and culture of the period, however, as I was a kid at the time of its release, myself. No, my parents didn't take me to see this - not surprising, being that this "G" rated movie likes to use the word "sex" quite a bit, and nobody is exactly a role-model. My first viewing was last night on TCM.I really hope that the Academy presents DD with an Honorary Oscar before she dies, but I consider this film to be an unfortunate footnote to her career.

tackett-1 I absolutely love this movie. People have commented that Doris Day's later movies were not as good as the ones from the early '60s, but I disagree. The storyline here is very engaging, and the characters are superb. I totally lose myself in this movie when I watch it, and I laugh out loud every time. It is fun to follow the timeline of the movie... if you analyze it the entire thing takes place over about 5 months. It begins in June (with Flip and Stacey's graduation), and ends around Halloween (hence the brief appearnces of the Halloween masks). The supporting cast is terrific too, some great old faces that everyone will recognize. If you love the classic comedies of Doris Day, I heartily recommend this one.