Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Bereamic Awesome Movie

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Robert J. Maxwell If this movie had been a one-shot deal, standing by itself, instead of third in a series of fluffy domestic comedies starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson, it might have been more appreciated. After all, what is it except an unusually good example of what might be called neo-screwball comedy? Make it in black and white in 1941, put in Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, call it "My Favorite Hypochondriac", and you've got a hit on your hands.Rock Hudson is no Cary Grant. Nobody is, although Grant was to replace Hudson in a later entry in the series. But Hudson had a modest flair for comedy. And here, in this context, his stupefaction and self pity are handled very well, an ironic contrast to his masculine frame and heroic features. Doris Day is no slouch either. She was no longer a spring chicken but she's cute, sexy, and a more accomplished performer than Hudson. Tony Randall provides excellent support for the third time, though his constant drunkenness doesn't provide his character with the inventiveness of his earlier two roles. It isn't funny to simply see a man drunk. He must do or say something funny. Paul Lynde is superb as the avaricious cemetery owner. Edward Andrews is funny for a change, instead of being slimy and underhanded. He's always grumbling about how the specialists like cardiologists are making a fortune and the allergists manage to keep bankers hours because they never deal with emergencies.The script is quite good too. Not only is the main theme ridiculous -- a hypochondriacal husband tricked into believing he's dying and trying to hide it from his wife while fixing her up with a new husband -- but the situations are studded with gags, as in a superior TV situation comedy. Just one example: Andrews is a doctor who's spent the weekend fishing. He removes his hat and reveals a sharp line across his forehead separating his blazing red features from his pale brow. Nothing is made of it. It's just there.The dialog is keen as well. Another example: Hudson is recording a tape to be given to his wife after his demise. The farewell address sparkles with unintended jokes and ironies. (1) "Yes, I'm dying. My hypochondria finally paid off." And (2) "When I am gone, I would like you to remarry after whatever your bridge club considers a decent interval." The movie is dated of course. All movies are dated the instant they're in the can. Nobody drives jumbo American convertibles anymore. Nobody lives in houses that might charitably be described as Modern Colonial Hideous. Milkmen don't deliver milk. Doctors don't make house calls. And nobody lives on a Universal back lot with fake houses, plastic shrubbery, and astroturf lawns. And the mores are different too. Somehow, even adultery has lost the kick it used to have. But so what? We need more successful comedies. Laughter is the best medicine, although Prozac helps too.

kenjha Believing that he has only a few weeks to live, a hypochondriac tries to find a suitable second husband for his wife in the third teaming of Hudson, Day, and Randall. Hudson is hilarious as the hypochondriac with a full medicine cabinet who, through a misunderstanding, thinks his days are numbered. Day is his understanding wife. Randall is Hudson's neighbor, who takes to drinking and writing a eulogy upon learning that his good buddy is dying. Arnold plays Hudson's doctor and Walker is the beefcake that Hudson decides should succeed him. After a funny beginning, the film loses some of its steam but manages to stay entertaining for the most part.

doctorj-1 Three stars out of ten.There's some funny material here, but some actions are just plain arbitrary. Towards the climax, Doris Day is leaving Rock Hudson and goes to the train station, but changes her mind and decides not to buy a ticket. After arguing with her husband, she gets upset and goes home to pack! Huh? Why wouldn't she have brought her luggage with her when she was getting ready to leave??I really think the earlier scripts written by Stanley Shapiro were better stories.The opening scenes of advertisements for remedies playing while Rock Hudson turned in his sleep was funny enough.Every time Doris Day looks in the medicine cabinet or otherwise deals with his pills, there's a little sound effect that plays. I found it rather distracting, like something from an annoying children's movie.Tony Randall has the best jokes, especially while he's working on the eulogy.

tubelarbells Oh how i miss those days, where a picture didn't have to blow you out of the cinema, og to provoke your stymie with bloody violence. The Hollywood times, where you could get far with humor, love and a warm story.I grew up with the likes of Doris Day, Tony Randall, Rock HUdson, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brandon, Grace Kelly and many others fantastic actors. In this period of from 1945 - 1970 some of the best movies where made. We all remember films like Cacablanca, Some like it hot, The odd couple, The African Queen,From here to eternity, Roman holiday, The bridge over the river Kwai, Ben Hur, Spartacus, Doctor Zhivago. And take then the must fantastic musical that also where made before the time of the computer animation took over.Just think about Singing in the rain or my favorite, The sound of music and last The west side story. We domt make them any more. We don't know how to. People have chances and people have learn to demand more. Its just like drugs. The want more and bigger every time. I know that we later on has made bigger and more fantastic to watch for the eye and the ear movies. But where were those movies of our present, if we didn't have all the computer animation. What was Titanic, KIng Kong, Star Wars, The lord of the ring and many others of the big films of today. And how good are the actors of to day, when you take all the fancy computer tecnic away from them. Its just like inside the music world. Just you have a good face and a attitude, we give you the voice. Back in the old days, they had to be good acting, because there wasn't anything to save them. The makeup at the time, was awful, and the special affects wasen't effective. They had to rely on the actors, Screenplayers and the director. And think about how we admire the old gone stars. Look at Marylin, James Dean, Marlon Brandon, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Katharina Hepburn,John Wayne and Steve Mcqueen,and menu others. When we go into a poster shop, there are all there on the wall. They have become legends of a time where it all seemed easier and not so complex-ed as it is today. But back to send me no flower. I get filled up with joy, when i see movies like this. The plot is funny and the actors understand how to make it even better. Doris day is as she always were, charming, sweet and sexy as hell. All the female actors of today, who are me-lasting there buddy to find the perfect sexy look, should learn from Doris. Not a single time, showed she her naked body or even one breast in the nude, but we men still dream about her. Maybe because she still left somethings to imagine. She never sold out. Rock Hudson the perfect man, plays as always with grace and man power. He has the perfect face and it was god who gave him the perfect match on the screen in Doris Day. But they where only that good, because they had the perfect third wheel in Tony Randall. I have never seen a man play so perfectly a drunk, as he dos in this movie. Those 3 together is still the best date for me on a rainy day.I hope you all will go back to the old days to pick of some of those old movies and give them a chance. They might give you the time of your life, and then you might better understand why your parents or there parents always talk about that time in film history.All the best to you From Denmark.