This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Really Surprised!

Let's be realistic.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

My goodness, what is all the fuss about?! Remember? was absolutely great. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. There are hilarious scenes and not just at the beginning of the picture like other reviewers have stated. When everyone around Taylor and Garson knows they are married except Taylor and Garson themselves, you can be sure riotous situations will ensue. The cast is just perfect, although Lew Ayres never really appealed to me. Garson absolutely sparkles and Robert Taylor was never more handsome. Although the ending is rather surprising, you will not be sorry with this gem of a comedy.

The idea of a soon to be divorced couple taking a drug that causes amnesia AND their falling in love all over again is a cute idea for a romantic film. However, there is just too much irrelevant comedic stuff in the first half of the film that just seems poorly written and a bit silly. Sticking with this story idea and introducing it much sooner might have helped the pacing--and gotten rid of all the irrelevant crap early in the film.The film starts with Lew Ayers introducing his fiancée (Greer Garson) to his best friend (Robert Taylor). Like a good friend, Taylor steals Greer for himself. At this point, the film is half completed--and made Garson and Taylor seem like real jerks. Poor Ayers--he seemed like such a nice guy that you couldn't help but hate the newly married couple. Why did they include this initial plot at all? There were some supposedly comedic moments leading up to it and Billie Burke plays her idiot routine well--but why write the film this way? It was as if the film didn't trust itself to be a romance and so it through in comedy and plot elements that seemed anything but romantic.Overall, it's not a bad film but a huge waste of talent. With Greer Garson (just off her success in GOODBYE MR. CHIPS), Robert Taylor and Lew Ayers, it should have been dynamite. The biggest problem is making it a goofy comedy instead of a romance. Blame for this goes to the writers and producer--why did they do this?!

I'm still trying to figure out just who would want to invent a drug that would induce short term amnesia or any kind of amnesia. Most of the films about that are serious ones with people trying their best to recover lost memories. In fact Greer Garson in a few years would co-star in one of the best of those movies, Random Harvest.Remember? was the second film on Garson's contract and a followup to her acclaimed performance in Goodbye Mr. Chips for which she got her first Academy Award nomination. She's teamed here with Robert Taylor and the plot premise starts out like a lighter version of Boom Town.If you'll remember after meeting Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert marries him on the spot to the chagrin of Spencer Tracy who is Gable's best friend. I'd say they stole the idea, but Boom Town came out the following year.Maybe Louis B. Mayer decided that it was a gambit that needed a serious interpretation after this movie. Lew Ayres comes into his office brimming with news of an impending marriage to Greer Garson for his best friend Robert Taylor. They go out to lunch and Taylor gets Garson alone and that's it for Ayres. But Taylor the young hard driving executive just can't tear himself away from business to actually run away with Garson. When they finally do, his mind is still on business and they eventually get divorced.Meanwhile scientist Sig Ruman is inventing his amnesia drug and sly Lew Ayres mixes it for both of them. They do forget each other, but love does find a way. Ruman's character might have been the basis for Jack Kruschen's scientist in Lover Come Back, a film also about advertising and a crazy product. In fact now that I think of it Ayres has the Tony Randall part.In which I've seen some descriptions of his performance as fey. This was the problem when back in the days of The Code you had to tap dance around having a gay character in the film. If someone bothers to remake Remember?, Ayres's character will be openly gay.But I doubt that's going to happen. The film just doesn't get off the ground and is waste of the talent involved. In the Citadel Film series book, The Films Of Robert Taylor, it's recorded that Taylor thought very little of this film. It was the third of three duds with the public, Lucky Night, Lady Of The Tropics, and this one. His career hit a dry patch in 1939. As for Garson she recovered quickly enough and had so many suitable roles for her coming up. I'm sure she'd have liked to forget this one as well.

After Greer Garson made her film debut in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," she was awarded an Academy Award nomination and gained international stardom. Her second film was "Remember?" which I'm sure Miss Garson would rather have "forgotten." A silly script that totally wastes the talents of not only Garson but Robert Taylor and Lew Ayres as well.