Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

DKosty123 Kind of unusual to have Cary Grant learning to knit while heading a mob trying to squeeze money out of a charity. Sounds a bit different as Grant is a draft dodger as well. The movie does work well though.After all, Grant pulls off being a con man. Loraine Day pulls off being the heiress that eventually becomes Grants target for the swindle. No matter how hard he tries to get away, Day keeps after him.Charles Bickford is excellent in support here. This movie ages better than many of the films from this period. You can tell RKO does not have a huge budget here but there is enough cast. There is a solid script though the ending gets a little muddled at one point.This does have the happy ending for Grant and Day and frankly she comes off very well in this movie.

deltascorch90 I was literally on the edge of my seat in some bits just taken up by the drama of it all. The father reading the letter in the church--I could almost visualize a Greek villager rallying his countrymen to "spare Greek honor another hour." Then there's the leading lady, whose eyes sparkled and lit up at some of the things Grant did. What reality! There's definitely something magical about this film. I was particularly struck when the "Well this is a pleasant surprise" bit came on from the episode of Band of Brothers. It struck me then how I'm at like the crossroads of it all, watching this film in its proper context and then watching the modern Band of Brothers looking back to this time. I don't know, I really enjoyed the romance between them, I could even feel myself longing for them to be reunited, as if it was something I was experiencing. One of the discussion board subjects reads "ultimate chick flick for me," and I suppose that's the case. This is a film that rightly deserves its happy ending. For my own emotions to be so yanked around by something, it's gotta be a good sort of film.

abcj-2 Cary Grant is my favorite actor. I've had a crush in him since seeing his movies on TV as a little girl. Most of my very favorite movies star the great Cary Grant and his plethora of beautiful leading ladies. So with an almost 40 year crush on Cary Grant and having seen almost all of his films, imagine my surprise when I discovered a new Cary Grant film which jumped near the top of the list of my favorite Grant movies of all time on my first viewing!MR. LUCKY is a delightfully complex film. It has crime, drama, war, con-artists, socialites putting on charity balls, gambling, drama, romance, comedy, knitting, cockney rhyming slang, and most of all, heart. It's a redemption story told against the backdrop of the home front efforts in World War II. The men have a plan and the women have a plan. You'll have to watch to see who prevails, but it is a romantic comedy after all, so the answer is pretty obvious.What isn't so obvious is Mr. Cary Grant. If you think you know Grant from his numerous comedic and occasional tough guy roles, then you're in for a real treat as you experience this film for the first time. It's one of those movies that is so good, I wish I could see it again for the first time. Grant is spot-on perfect as the crooked gambler Joe. Laraine Day is unusually perfect as his leading lady. I wasn't sure how I'd like her paired with Grant, but they have marvelous chemistry and delightful repartee. Two of my favorite character actors are Charles Bickford and Gladys Cooper who shine in their supporting roles. But ultimately, Cary Grant, as he always does, steals the show. He can't help it. He's Cary Grant. However, he's not playing the perfectly suave ladies' man. He's a tough guy who learns through his crooked dealings with some kindhearted women that he has a heart, too.As a drooling admirer, I'm not sure he ever looked as good as he does in this film (especially in his early years as an actor). He also let's a little bit of his Mid-Atlantic accent go and gives us a touch of his British side. It's endearing and unusual for Grant. If anyone ever thought Grant was underrated as an actor, then here is a case for it. You don't even realize you're watching Cary Grant, and that's hard for almost any fan to forget despite his wonderful acting and diverse roles. He's fully transported into the character and he brings us right along for a real surprise.

sagaylo As Leo Durocher noted, rotten guys wind up with the best looking women - or something to that effect. It has been said of this minor film effort that Cary Grant had no on-screen chemistry with his co-star, the gorgeous Laraine Day...hmmn...trying to think of one of his films, in which he did have chemistry, biology or any other natural science, with his female counterpart. Maybe he should have been in some westerns with Randy Scott and we would have seen the missing rapport. Day's eyes are like shimmering jewels - I wonder what she saw in old Leo? A few distracting head-scratchers: why does the G.O. priest not find it strange that Joe's mother would write to him in Greek if Joe can't read the language? Why does Joe flee from the gambling parlor with the stolen loot if he only wants to make sure that it is returned to the charity? Why does Dorothy need to show him how to knot his tie? The muddled character development makes for some unneeded confusion.