You won't be disappointed!

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

best movie i've ever seen.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Luckily she's much younger here.This show is not bad, not bad at all. It has some eye candy AND while it's no French tickler, it's more fun than getting the pimp-hand.Irma is worth seeing but I can't watch this more frequently than every 7 - 10 years.

Anyone who liked The Apartment will love to see Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine paired up again in Irma la Douce. As a kid, I saw this one much more often than their black-and-white counterpart. I loved the colors and fashions, and I remember wishing I would grow up and naturally sport Shirley's adorable haircut.In Irma la Douce, Shirley plays a streetwalker, and Jack plays a policeman. A match made in heaven! In Paris, the red light district is a very corrupt place, and all the cops usually look the other way. Not Jack Lemmon! He's a very moral guy, and after he gets fired from the force, he tries to convince her to quit her job. She's a very experienced and successful prostitute, and without her income, they'll have no bread and butter. What's the young couple to do? I know it doesn't really sound like a very funny plot on paper, but it's quite hilarious. A lovely screwball sex comedy of the 1960s without showing anything inappropriate, Irma la Douce is a total classic. Watch it for the jokes, watch it for Shirley's darling look, or watch it for the inventive plot. Just watch it!

This odd morality play about an honest cop who is fired for doing his job, and who then gets involved with a streetwalker and gets a lesson in ethics from the other side of the law, was a surprise flop for the usually reliable Billy Wilder, but viewed now there is still quite a lot for his fans to enjoy. The subject matter is given a highly sanitized treatment, as one would expect for 1963, and some of the scenes seem studio-bound (although the early montage showing Paris at five in the morning is a real cinematic treat.) I liked the look of the movie, however, with its big MGM soundstage sets and some great tracking shots, especially along Rue Casanova, where the girls work their trade. Plus, the dialogue has some very sharp moments with wryly worded sexy jokes that nonetheless passed the production code, and there are a few bits of well-staged physical comedy, as one would expect with Jack Lemmon. Nonetheless, there is a contrived air to everything that makes it impossible to suspend disbelief and immerse oneself in the drama. Part of the problem lies with Shirley MacLaine, who, as the woman with the flipped over sense of morality, gives a likable but not entirely natural performance. There are some false moments in her portrayal. You get the feeling that she was less than 100% convinced of the character's world view and thus fails to completely convince the audience. A different actress, Jane Fonda maybe, or a few different choices by La MacLaine might have gone further to sell the picture's odd moral message. Not all of the false notes in the picture are her doing, of course. Everything is a little too Big Hollywood, plus the high farce second half of the movie is too far-fetched to create a truly compelling entertainment, and for every well-staged bit of physical comedy there is another bit that that comes of as forced.I would recommend this movie to fans of Billy Wilder, to fans of old school MGM movie-making and to Jack Lemmon fans, but anybody looking for a movie to really submerge oneself in will likely be disappointed.

This film was written and directed by genius, Billy Wilder. This film is not one of his finest but it's worth watching with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine in it. Shirley plays the title role of a Parisian street walker with a poodle named Coquette who has kidney stones and drinks a little. Anyway, Lemmon's played Nestor, an honest policeman who raids the Hotel Casanova. While he thinks he will get a medal, his boss fires him for the raid. Anyway, the film is about prostitution in a light-hearted manner even in the 1960s. Irma invites Nestor to come and stay with her since he's jobless and homeless in her apartment. Anyway, Irma likes the color green and even wears green stockings. There is a lot of humor in this film if you watch all of it. Lou Jacobi is wonderful as the Mustache who helps Nestor land his dream girl.