ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

earlytalkie I've read a lot of negative reviews of this film and I can only say that yes, there are some errors in the chronology and anachronisms regarding the cars used. If you can get beyond all that, the film will entertain you. The acting and the portrayals are quite good of Lucy and Desi, and acceptable for Viv and Bill Frawley. There are some not-bad impersonations of some legends like Eddie Cantor and young Bette Davis. A standout is the young woman portraying Carole Lombard, and the 20s period stuff looks good. I wish they would have gone more into Desi's background as his early life was filled with at least as much drama as Lucy's. The woman who plays DeDe Ball really looks exactly like the real thing. The re-creations of Lucy's best routines are pretty good. It must be hard to near-impossible to try an imitate a comic genius credibly, but Rachel York does a very good job. I've read nearly everything ever written about Lucy and Desi, and while this film is not perfect, it is generally pretty accurate.

dannymike This is a very well-done TV movie. The production values are high, the acting is usually excellent, and the story is factual, for the most part. Honestly, I have seen few movie biographies that were as factual as this. Some details are incorrect and events that did happen are sometimes in the wrong order, but to me these are minor issues. I have seen biopics that captured most of the right details, but they were presented in a way that was not true to the spirit of what happened. While not 100% accurate, the spirit of the real-life personalities and events was usually captured. The most inconsistent thing in the movie is that virtually no one in the movie seems to age significantly, especially Danny Pino as Desi Arnaz. He looks like he ages five years (at the most) from 1940 to 1960. His performance is ten times better than the actor who played him in "Lucy and Desi: Before the Laughter," though. Pino plays Arnaz in a way that is slightly exaggerated and feels like an "impersonation" at times, but it is an effective performance. Rachel York does an excellent job playing Lucille Ball, although she is written to be a little more like "Lucy Ricardo" than the real Lucille Ball ever was. York has a "zany" or "ditsy" quality that Ball never had in real life. I enjoyed how the love and fun of Lucy and Desi's relationship came through as well as the tragedy. This movie had a nice balance of the fun times and the hard times. It also moves along at a quick pace, never really dragging. If you were to watch this movie and "Lucy and Desi: a Home Movie" (the definitive documentary on Lucy and Desi) back to back, you would find that most of the facts about their lives are accurately reproduced in this movie. Some casting could have been better (such as the actress who played Vivian Vance- she did not look, act, or sound at all like Vance) and in some cases the facts could have been better represented, but overall a well-produced, accurate, and entertaining movie.

Tim This film failed before we evan saw who directed it. Even the casting chosen for this movie didn't do well. It's a shame that this movie is nothing more then Lucy's marriage problems with just a touch of her show. If you want to see the true Lucy go to A&E and see it there. You will get a better idea of this great lady.

john clerkin "Lucy" the movie, failed to live up to the promise of it's commercials, which featured recreated scenes from the famous "I Love Lucy" series.The over long film juggled facts and dates to the point that any real Lucy fan watching couldn't help but spend the entire 3 hours raging about all that they got wrong or changed. So Buster Keaton readied the couple for their vaudeville act? Funny, Desi's friend Pepito the clown has always been credited in every biography of the couple I've ever read. They've got Lucy as a blonde years after she went red - where was the movie "Too many Girls" for which MGM imported Desi from NY, and during the making of which the couple began dating? Yeah, I'm nit-picking, but the film was so filled with little blunders like that! The kind of things that drive any hard core Lucy fan crazy! I could've over looked much of this had the producers provided me with a more believable Lucy - but Miss York frankly did not cut it. Lucy was as famous for her beauty as for her talent, and Miss York is simply not even in her league.With a running time of 3 hours, they had time to get it right - that they chose not to do so amazes me! All in all, a really tedious waste of viewing time. If you love Lucy - Avoid it!