Alicia I love this movie so much

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

dudewheresmycousin Archie bunker is a character that will nevre be forgotten . Watching this show now is a bit cringy but in reality it was ahead of its time with its unapologtic approach to politics and racism. Love him or hate him, Archie Bunker is a character that will never be forgotten, even if he is remembered for being a pessimistic bigot!

gkeith_1 Boy the way Glenn Miller played. Songs that made the hit parade. Guys like us we had it made. Those were the days.You meathead. You dingbat. Little girl. Archie tolerated Edith, and loved Gloria.Archie was old school. All the things in the opening song represented the old days, that would never come back. All the yearnings for an earlier time of big bands and LaSalle automobiles.Archie was blue collar, uneducated, sexist, bigoted, racist, etc. Lots of other characters tried to set him wise to the realities of modern life in the early nineteen seventies.The show was written by a liberal person. The right wing Archie was bombarded by enlightened women and forward thinking African Americans. Archie was so backward that in real life his favorite chair on the show was put into the Smithsonian Institution. This is not bad for the real meathead of All in the Family.Edith was the brilliant one. She had the last laugh. Archie would continue to run his mouth, trying to be the world's best authority on everything.8/10

rcj5365 Premiering on January 12,1971,the situation controversial comedy series "All In The Family" made it's television debut on CBS-TV. At the time of it's airing,the show marked the first time since Jackie Gleason's "The Honeymooners",that a weekly comedy series was videotaped live in front of a live-studio audience. Created and Produced by Norman Lear along with producer Bud Yorkin,"All In The Family" actually changed the course of situation comedy(Loosely based on the 1960's British sitcom "Till Death Do Us Part" written and created by Johnny Speight). So successful that it remained the Number One show on television for the first five consecutive seasons of it's phenomenal nine year-run.It was CBS' top-rated show that was nominated for an impressive 22 Emmys and winning 6 Prime-Time Emmys for Best Actor,Best Actress,Best Original Writing,and Best Comedy Series. It accomplished a feat by winning 8 Golden Globes for Best Actor,Best Actress,Best Supporting Actor and Actress,and Outstanding Best Comedy Series."All In The Family" ran for an astounding nine seasons on CBS producing 208 episodes from it's debut on January 12,1971 until the final episode on April 8,1979. When it premiered in 1971,audiences had to adjust to the outrageous blunt humor of the show where it faced almost considerable publicity(and even close to being canceled within it's first season,but viewers response saved it from the cancellation axe)about Archie Bunker's railings against minorities,religious groups, and political agendas,something that was never even heard of for a weekly television series. By July of 1971,it was saved from the cancellation axe,and became a controversial phenomenon colossal hit making Archie Bunker the most liberalistic bigot in the history of television. By it's second season it soared to the top of the Nielsens,making it the Number One show on television....a position it conquered for the five seasons(1971-1976) of it's nine year-run when it dethrone "Laugh-In" off the top spot in television. By the 1976-1977 season it became the Number Two show on television when ABC's "Happy Days" dethrone CBS' top rated show from the Number One spot. Lovable,but liberalistic bigot Archie Bunker(Carroll O'Connor),his wife Edith(Jean Stapleton),Archie's sweet and lovable childish-adult daughter Gloria(Sally Struthers),and her live-in boyfriend and later on her political pushing/protesting husband Michael(Rob Reiner).Archie's sayings like "Meathead!",and others became staples within the American culture. The phenomenal success of "All In The Family" spun six spinoffs that were under the supervision of Norman Lear himself. The first of the six spinoffs that were associated with "All In The Family" were "Maude",(1972-1978),followed by the spin off from "Maude" titled,"Good Times"(1974-1979). "The Jeffersons"(1975-1986) the third spin off from "All In The Family", became the most successful and the longest running spanning 11 seasons. "Archie Bunker's Place",the follow up after Carroll O' Connor's original series ended lasted from 1979- 1982. "Checking In",which was the spin off of "The Jeffersons",by way of "All In The Family"(starring Marla Gibbs)premiered in 1981 and lasted four episodes. "Gloria" starring Sally Struthers was the next spin off that featured Archie Bunker's daughter as a divorce parent starting a new life lasted two seasons from 1982-1984. The last and final spin off to "All In The Family" titled,"704 Hauser Street",that lasted six episodes in 1994 starred former "Good Times" actor John Amos. The commentary has been reedited on January 12, 2016 to commemorate the show's golden 45th anniversary.

AllInTheFamilySucks I get that this show was supposed to challenge some of the prevailing norms of the time. It's not really controversial to say that most old people back then were ignorant, racist and loud like the character Archie is, and my dislike of the show isn't because I in any way sympathize with his views. My problem with the show rather is that the characters are all completely unlikeable. Archie sounds like he has down's syndrome (not to disrespect anyone with down's syndrome, but he really, really does sound mentally challenged, which is a problem since that's not intended and so it just sounds silly) - it's impossible for me to understand anything he's saying because the actor playing him (Carroll O'Connor) mumbles everything he says. It's as if he's trying to sound as dumb as possible when he says his lines. The actor playing Archie's wife Edith (Jean Stapleton) is constantly screeching, regardless of what emotion she's portraying. It actually hurts my ears to listen to her. Her character is also really one-dimensional - basically, she's always oblivious, no matter what the situation is. Most of the time she's oblivious to Archie's bigotry and stupidity, but when Archie isn't being a bigot, the writers usually find something else for her to be oblivious to. Their daughter Gloria is also one-dimensional; she parrots the liberal views of her husband (played by Rob Reiner, who I must say, has really put on a lot of weight since back then), but doesn't have the ability to form thoughts complex enough to understand them. As Archie and Edith's daughter, Gloria is convincing in that the actor portraying her combined a little bit of the down-syndromish voice of her father, and a little bit of the annoying shrieking of her mother. Like her mother, she's often fairly oblivious to what's going on. The laughtrack usually plays when one of them says something stupid (which is often), even if the situation isn't actually that funny. Her character is also literally a mouth breather. Don't watch this show.