Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

dougdoepke I love that scene where the phony doctor and nurse keep upstaging each other while on TV. What a sparkling little comedy from two of the best comedic actors of the time —Holliday and Lemmon. Holliday is less pixilated than usual, but then she does play a TV writer. Lemmon also has fewer tics than usual, but that doesn't hamper the laughs at all. They play a married couple who divorce when he prefers reading second-rate Mickey Spillane to her. Of course, once divorced, they pine for each other following a series of comedic misadventures.That manic dance number alone is worth the price of admission. I just hope they did it in one take, otherwise get out the respirator. Then too the "whooshing" bed proves a great bit of comedic inspiration. Note how its whooshing back and forth becomes innuendo in that flashback scene where they first meet. And what a cutely appropriate final whoosh to the movie as a whole.A lot of credit should go to ace screenwriter Axelrod, who devises a series of amusing episodes where Nina (Holliday) and Robert (Lemmon) try to out-do one another in the I'm-so-over-you department. He grows a mustache and gets a sports car, while she does what any woman is expected to do—she gets a new wardrobe. Meanwhile, that expert performer Jack Carson lends first-rate actorly support but questionable best-friend advice; at the same time, Kim Novak gets into the swing with a vivacious party-girl performance.All in all, the set-ups wear well despite the years. Sure, it's only well done fluff. Still, I'm just sorry there weren't more Holliday-Lemmon pairings, since their styles blend so perfectly as this movie so humorously demonstrates.

bkoganbing In an incredible coincidence Phffft marked the second featured role for both Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak. It was also the second time that Lemmon was co-starred with Judy Holliday, the two having made such a hit in his debut feature film, It Should Happen To You. Though I don't think it was as funny as the first one, Phffft definitely got it's share of laughs. And Novak refined her ersatz Marilyn Monroe imitation for Harry Cohn and Columbia Studios.A seemingly happily married couple Lemmon and Holliday both arrive at the conclusion that they seem to be in a rut after 8 years. So just like that they get themselves divorced.Lemmon moves in with his old navy buddy Jack Carson who is playing his usual screen lout and starts to live the bachelor life again. Judy goes back to Mom who's an interior decorator and she starts dating as well. But as fate would have it, these two keep running into each other and maybe what they had wasn't so bad after all.Carson's a great pal, setting up Lemmon with Novak so he can finally make a move on Holliday now that she's free. As for Holliday, she's a writer for NBC and does a soap opera. Her first experience in the dating scene is with the leading man in the show, Donald Curtis. He's making his move on her because first and foremost he wants more of the show to himself and is relying on his leading man charm to see that happens. That's quite a comedown for Holliday, Curtis is very good as the actor quite full of himself.I guess the ultimate lesson of Phffft is don't mess with the fates.

Popey-6 Once in a while this movie offers glimpses of fun amidst the flashbacks and repetitive scenes. Kim Novak's Monroe-esque appearance brings a little relief but otherwise it's easy to get distracted. Watch out for the joke with the lamp in the window - quite a gem and wonderfully played by Lemmon and Novak. I believe the title of the film is the sound of a match extinguishing. It's referenced quite close to the beginning in the close-up on the gossip column.

moonspinner55 Awfully tired sex farce--made before sex farces actually got sexy--involving a New York lawyer and his inability to swing into the single life after divorcing his TV-writer wife. Written by the usually-reliable George Axelrod, film is beset with hammy humor and a lengthy flashback sequence foisted upon us in the first 12 minutes! Jack Lemmon (in only his second movie, both of which had him co-starring alongside Judy Holliday) is still rather green here, and he has trouble walking that fine line between tragedy and comedy. Holliday is forced, as is Jack Carson playing a wolf. Kim Novak, on the other hand, is perfect doing a Marilyn Monroe impersonation, brightening an otherwise stale bedroom opus. ** from ****