Diagonaldi Very well executed

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

SimonJack "Off Limits" is one of the many comedies that Bob Hope made during his period of prolific 1940s-50s filmmaking. It's above the average of that batch, with a better and more detailed plot. This is one before Hope begins talking to the camera, and it comes across as more natural. Here, he shares the main lead time with Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell. And, the film has a handful of good supporting players of Hollywood of the 1940s-50s. Stanley Clements plays Bullets Bradley, Norman Leavitt is Chowhound, and Marvin Miller (of TV's 1955- 60 series, "The Millionaire") is Vic Breck. Eddie Mayehoff made only half a dozen movies in his 25-year career, but his character is easily identified from the many appearances he made in TV series from 1946 to 1970. Mayehoff plays the nemesis of Bob Hope's Wally Hogan, the MP who rises from corporal to sergeant to lieutenant to captain during the movie. Legendary world-heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey has some film time, as himself, refereeing two fights in the film. This film isn't loaded with one-liners as many of Bob Hope's movies are, but it has some funny and very good lines. In place of more dialog, it has some very funny situations. A scene toward the end is hilarious. With few words, Hope smashes, paints, breaks, scratches and otherwise ruins a brand new car that he mistakenly takes for the car of a couple of bad guys. Instead it was a gift to a general from his wife. This is a fun film – a rare one in which Hope serves in the military. For several decades, he was the top performer to entertain American and Allied troops in the Armed Forces around the world. Often times, he put on shows for troops in areas that were close to the front lines or under fire (Korea and Vietnam). He was too young to serve in WW I, and beyond service age for WW II. Here are a couple funny lines from the film. For more humorous dialog, check the Quotes section here on the IMDb Web page for this film. Wally Hogan: A zebra's covered with stripes, but underneath he's still a jackass.Wally Hogan: When I was born, the doctor said, "Boil some hot water," and I've been in it ever since.

tavm In this Bob Hope vehicle, he's a fight manager who trains a champ and has all the women he wants and more! Then the champ gets drafted and Hope enlists with him. Well, something else happens but let's skip there and just say that Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell then get involved with him and lots of funny lines and scenes and a number or two gets performed and there's a chase because of another messy visual comedy scene. Oh, and there's also their military police superior (Eddie Mayehoff) to deal with and the champ's flunkies and...well, just watch the thing if you're so inclined. It's on YouTube right now. It's one of few Hope movies that's not in the public domain that's available there...

California_Girl_2058 This movie does NOT focus on the military duties so much but focuses on a guy (Mickey Rooney) in the army, who wants to be a prize fighter and a trainer (Bob Hope) who joined the army to watch another fighter but things go wrong and the trainer (Bob Hope) gets stuck in the army and ends up training the new guy (Mickey Rooney). This was my first time seeing this movie. Next to the Lemon Drop Kid, its going to be my favorite movie with Bob Hope. I am thinking about buying it. Bob Hope really outdone himself, we were all laughing out loud, throughout the movie. Like so many Military comedy movies: Kelly Heroes, Major Payne, No Time for Sergeants, Sgt. Bilko, At War With the Army, just a few Military comedy movies; if you liked these; you're going to love this one.

bkoganbing Off Limits is a very typical Bob Hope product with Hope playing a character that he's done before, a guy who thinks he's a sharpie, but is really quite the schnook. Hope is a fight manager who finally gets himself a champion in Stanley Clements only to be done out of his end of the champ by partners, Marvin Miller and Richard Weil.It's quite the con they pull, sending a fake draft notice to Clements and then having Hope enlist to protect their investment. Of course Clements gets rejected by the Draft Board, but Hope's in for the duration.While there he buddies up with Mickey Rooney who was also a fighter and thinks he can be lightweight champion himself. Hope kids him along because he's got his mind on Marilyn Maxwell who is Rooney's aunt if you can believe that one. Later on Hope and Rooney get real earnest in their championship quest.All this is done mind you while the two of them become Military Police. That's another thing I found hard to swallow in Off Limits. Still Rooney and Hope work quite well together and I'm surprised they never did another film together. All their shenanigans are watched with a jaundiced eye by the Captain of the MPs Eddie Mayehoff who probably has the best performance in the film.Off Limits was the second of two films Bob Hope did with Marilyn Maxwell the first being the infinitely better The Lemon Drop Kid. The two of them were involved with each other at the time though that would shortly come to an end. There's a little bite in their scenes together as Maxwell was realizing Hope wasn't going to leave Dolores for her. If you look quick you'll see Charles Bronson in a brief appearance as a fighter training in a gym in one scene. Bing Crosby makes his obligatory appearance in Hope film via a clip from Welcome Stranger. As in The Lemon Drop Kid, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans wrote the score though nothing as memorable as Silver Bells came out Off Limits. Still it's a pleasant enough service comedy, though far from Hope's best work.