Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Jay Raskin Rosalind Russell became a star at 33 with "His Girl Friday" in 1940. Before that, she did mostly small parts. There's a big gap of nearly 20 years in her career before we see her is some of her best later career movies, like "Auntie Mame," "Gypsy," and the "Trouble with Angels" It is nice to see her in a mid-career piece like this from 1953. I watched it on 100 comedy classics from Mill Creek video.This is a reasonably funny piece about an aristocratic woman who joins the army expecting to be made an officer immediately because of her high social standing in society. She learns that the army is a democratic institution and goes through normal training as a WAC.Russell is reasonably delightful. She's given good support by Marie Wilson as a dizzy blond who wants to have a career in intelligence. Paul Douglas plays her husband, perhaps a little too somber and solemn for a piece like this. He's usually better in dramas and film noir.For those who have seen Abbott and Costello's "Buck Privates" or "Private Benjamin" or "Stripes," or other army comedies, there won't be too many surprises. Still, its a solidly amusing piece of work most of the time. It proves again that joining the army is just like going to summer camp, only with guns.

MartinHafer This is a very silly film with a very silly plot and some very silly and impossible to believe characters. Yet, despite all this, if you can suspend judgment, there is still a decent film there to enjoy--making this a bit of a guilty pleasure.Rosalind Russell and Paul Douglas just divorced and Roz is planning on getting remarried to a stuffy colonel. However, Paul wants her back and with Roz's father's conniving, a plan is hatched. Dad convinces Roz that it would be "fun" for her to join the WACs and that with all their political connections (after all, he is a senator and she knows EVERYBODY in Washington who is somebody), she'll be commissioned a colonel herself. Well, based on this pep talk, she rushes to the recruiting office (despite being 45 and WAAY too old to join). However, he tricked her as she does NOT get a commission and is a lowly recruit.The problem is not just how contrived all this is as well as Roz's age but how they wrote her character. She walks around the base and acts like it's the Hilton Hotel. While having her play a spoiled rich brat was cool, no one is THAT obnoxious and stupid to think that they'd get the army to cater to their every whim! This could have sunk the film had it not been for the fact that they played it all for comedy--never taking itself too seriously.Cute writing and dialog managed to make this film harmless fun and a very good time-passer. Sophisticated entertainment? No way--but still cute and enjoyable.

sjk969 I watched this movie not so much for Rosalind Russel, but for Regis Toomey ("The Big Sleep" and "Guys and Dolls"). I barely made my way through this film. It was painful to watch. And like a train wreck, I could not stop watching, hoping it would get better.Jo McBain is an incredibly stuck-up blue-blood aristocratic ..um.. twit. She spends most of the movie with her nose high in the air, all but sh*tting on her black servants. I so wanted to smack her hard several times in the film.I would think that if a recruit showed that much insolence and insubordination that she showed the WAC NCOs and officers, she'd be thrown in the brig until her attitude got adjusted.And don't get me started on Clara Schneiderman and Sgt. Norbert Jackson! She was insufferable, and he desperately needed a knee in the groin every time he said or did something patently offensive.Yes, I know the movie is a product of its time and reflects the then-mainstream sensibilities. I've seen other old (read: black and white) films that were not nearly as offensive and painful to watch. This film needs to be watched with more than just a grain of salt, you need an entire container of Morton's.

Snow Leopard This light comedy has some entertaining characters and a few good scenes that make up for a rather slim plot. The story itself is rather silly - Rosalind Russell stars as a divorced socialite who joins the Army solely in order to be closer to her officer boyfriend. She quickly finds out that the Army plans to do a little more with her than simply give her passes whenever she wants to see him. Meanwhile, her scientific ex-husband (Paul Douglas) is working for the Army, and requests her for his project so that he can disrupt her planned romantic meetings. Since there's not a whole lot to work with, it starts to run out of steam after a while, but remains mostly pleasant to watch. While it's nothing to take seriously, it's just meant as light-hearted entertainment, and as such most of it works pretty well.