Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

weezeralfalfa No, it's not a porno film, just a silly, fun, experience, headed by Doris Day and Rod Taylor. Much slapstick is included in this breezy farce. The screenplay has Rod head of a division in a NASA research facility on Catalina Island. CA. Nearby, Doris's acting father, Arthur Godfrey, runs a glass bottom boat for tourists to get a better look at life in the shallows. Doris is a new guide for tourists at the aerospace facility. Rod's present main project is to find a way to overcome the problem of weightlessness in space. Doris gets a taste of this research when she walks through the wrong door. Next, we see her floating around in the air. ....In his conversation with Doris about his research, he mentions a new(phony) project, with the goal of getting to Venus, which he invites her to participate in. Naturally, he calls it Project Venus, which, of course, could refer to Doris, as well, as he is much taken by this gorgeous, vivacious, widow, who has no children. ......Actually, the two got off to a bad start when Rod was fishing and Doris dove into adjacent waters. The fishing line hooked Doris's bottom piece and somehow pulled it off as Rod reeled his line in, thinking he had a big fish. We didn't see how she got out of this predicament! Use your imagination. Periodically, Rod would do or say something that ticked Doris off, and this sometimes romantic relationship would sour for a time...... Doris got her one high heel stuck in a grating, with Rod nearby. He grabbed her leg, trying to pull the shoe out. She got mad, and ran off with just one shoe on. Eventually, Rod got the shoe out, and chased her down......Doris experienced the wonders of a high tech kitchen at the space center , including a popup egg beater. The most interesting gadget was a robotic vacuum cleaner, with a hose that acted rather like an elephant's trunk, getting up close and personal with Doris. ......One of the funniest scenes is when an electrician is on a ladder and leans to his left, putting his foot on an adjacent table, right in the middle of Doris's banana cream cake, which she had made for Ron. Doris makes things worse when she brings a tall skinny trash receptacle to put the cake remains in. Somehow, the electrician manages to get his foot stuck in this, and a little later Doris also gets her foot stuck in it.....In the last half, the frequency of slapstick decreases, as more attention is paid to the developing romance, and to the fantasy promoted by some that Doris is a Russian spy. This fantasy is fueled by the fact that her dog is named Vladimir, whom some assume is her Russian contact. One snooper overhears her say that last night, she slept with Vladimir, and assumes the worst. To me, the spy-hunting portion is less interesting than the early part, but you may differ........ Doris gets to sing a bit, dueting with Godfrey, playing his ukulele, to the rousing "The Glass Bottom Boat", with some interesting lyrics. Also, a brief rendition of her hit "Que, Sera, Sera". Later, she sings the dreamy "Soft as the Starlight", while alone under the stars. See it at YouTube.

TheLittleSongbird 'The Glass Bottom Boat' was seen as part of my completest quest for the films of Doris Day. Most of her films have been seen already, a few many times and among my favourites, but being a fan there was the want to see the ones not already viewed.Of these first time viewings, 'The Glass Bottom Boat' is one of the better ones. Not quite one of her best ('Calamity Jane' and 'Pillow Talk' are especially great), but a long way from being one of her worst, even as a fan will admit that not every single film of hers is good let alone great (both early in her career and later), and actually one of her better later (meaning her 60s output) films. Also the better of the two Day and director Frank Tashlin collaborations, the other being the critical and commercial failure 'Caprice'.Sure the story is silly, but the film knows it and one is just too caught up in the non-stop entertainment to care. There maybe could have been more of the romance between Day and Rod Taylor, there certainly is some, it has the right amount of sweetness and Taylor has charm as a leading man if not quite enjoying himself as much as the rest of the cast, but it is a little under-utilised and occasionally gets lost amidst everything else.However, 'The Glass Bottom Boat's' production values are great, one of Day's best looking films to me. The locations and fashions are fabulously lavish and it is beautifully photographed with gorgeous use of colour, bright, bold and rich. There is some fine music too, energetically quirky while also lush. The title song is unforgettable, the little snippet of "Que Serra" is even better used than in 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' and "Soft as a Starlight" is lovely. They suit Day's beautiful voice perfectly, and Day's musical understanding and sincerity shines through all.It's an exceptionally funny film too, which is something not always found in later films with Day. Very slapstick-heavy which is delivered with tons of energy and like the supporting cast in particular were having a ball, but also with some intriguing social satire, some ahead of the time use of technology (would do anything for a kitchen like that, despite being more than content with the kitchen in my flat, but the kitchen is just too cool). The title sequence is super.Story goes at a bright and breezy pace, 'The Glass Bottom Boat' is a never dull film, and has charm and fun aplenty, the silliness and slightness of it is pretty much forgiven. Tashlin's experience as a cartoonist comes through loud and clear with the delivery of the humour and he keeps things thick and fast with the gags and zany dialogue being packed into the film without feeling too much. The ending section is a riot, as is Paul Lynde in drag (goodness doesn't he look good in it) and Dick Martin and Edward Andrews in bed is quite a sight (don't worry it's more innocent than it sounds).Day perky and luminous, has deftly witty comic timing, sincerity and just charms everybody every time she's on screen in front of the camera and to the viewer watching. Satire comes easily to her. Taylor is charming if a little underused, while Lynde, Martin and Andrews are hilarious scene-stealers. Dom DeLuise provides some inspired seemingly improvisational comedy. A cameo from Robert Vaughn is also fun.Overall, extremely entertaining film with so much to recommend. One of Day's better later efforts if not quite one of her best overall. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Robert J. Maxwell Frank Tashlin, a former cartoonist and animator, made a couple of hilarious comedies in the 50s -- "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" and "The Girl Can't Help It." The material was good to begin with but Tashlin buffed it up to a high gloss.The same can't be said for "The Glass Bottom" boat, a story which is unfocused and a little slapdash. The wit is almost entirely slapstick or absurd in a curiously shivery way. You want something from the early 60s? You'll find it in here somewhere. There's Rod Taylor as the head of some super-duper space project involving the CIA, Russian spies trying to steal the secret formula, and security agencies trying to prevent it.There's Doris Day as the cute, very sun-tanned, and infinitely desirable woman he hires to help him write his autobiography but is really there just to be around him. She's mistaken for a Soviet spy because her dog is named Vladimir. There are Dom DeLuise and Paul Lynde at odds with each other. DeLuise gets his foot stuck in a trash can filled with banana cream cake. Day, trying to help him, gets her foot stuck too. This is known as a funny scene. Paul Lynde dresses in various disguises and tries to fool Day into revealing her true identity. This is also funny.Well, as they say, if you don't have eggs you can't make an omelet. No, wait. That's not what they say. They say -- wait a minute -- yes, they say you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, and the problem here is that the eggs are kind of soft boiled. The gags just aren't very funny.I'll give you an example. Doris visit Rod's house in order to bake him a cake. First, he has to show her around his ultra-modern kitchen. It's full of robotic gadgets of various kinds, each accompanied by its own boop-boop-de-doop electronic sounds as it does its business. Let's see. There's the automatic incinerator, run by "a photoelectric cell." Then there's the robot egg beater. Then there's the sentient vacuum cleaner that zips out of a panel in the wall and sucks up whatever happens to be dropped on the floor. (I could use one of them.) A full FIVE MINUTES is spent on demonstrating these modern labor-saving devices. And the last one -- when the vacuum cleaner comes out and begins sucking on Day's big toe, which is not a bad idea in and of itself, and after a tug of war finally makes off with her flip-flop and dashes back into the wall with it -- why, that's a real knee slapper.Rod Taylor is really quite good, confident in his Aussie masculinity. But Day, over 40, looks great. Everything about her body and face is chipper and tan, and wardrobe has given her a lot of white garments, including an infinitely inviting pleated white skirt, that sets off her tawny legs in an almost salacious fashion.It's clumsily done and crude. The kids will get every gag in it. But if you're desperate for diversion, this may do the job. You get to hear Doris Day sing a song that sounds like "Hush, Little Baby, Don't You Cry," but the subject of which is sea food.

esmorr This is a fantastic movie! I had heard of the title, and had it on my list of must-gets, even though I had never actually watched it before. I finally picked it up for $1.00 in a charity shop. This is exactly the kind of picture that I enjoy; a great cast in a romantic comedy, with lots of laugh-out-loud antics thrown in. I was surprised at how good Rod Taylor is in this. He's not my favourite actor, but he and Doris have great chemistry in this movie, and they are ably assisted by the likes of Paul Lynde, Dom DeLuise, Edward Andrews, John McGiver, and Dick Martin thrown in for good measure. With those names on the bill you already know that you're in for a heck of a treat, but this picture goes above and beyond! There's slapstick galore throughout, and it's almost as though Frank Tashlin said "Now, Doris and Rod, you say your lines, and these other guys are just going to do their thing and you just go with it, and I'm going to keep rolling, o.k.?" I mean, I know that there was a script, but it just feels as though sometimes they threw it away!! The movie is fast-paced, witty, sometimes predictable, but always wonderfully entertaining. Paul Lynde is such a crack-up that you can imagine the whole cast and crew falling about in hysterics many times over while filming this. There are also several appearances by the familiar face of Alice Pearce who plays her usual nosey neighbour character, as she does in many of Doris's movies. I love this picture, and it is now one of my favourites!! I think you will like it too. It's a great movie for the whole family from a time when Hollywood made great pictures! Pity they don't make good stuff like this now! 10/10.