Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

If you're not a fan of Hitchcock's then you probably will not get much out of this. It's an average very old movie on the surface, that seems like it was supposed to be a silent film with some talking elements they tried to add after this movie was well along the way to being produced. So it is clumsy with old equipment used, bad sound. But there are those HItchcock touches you just can't miss that elevates this to a must see if you want to understand the master's earlier work and later classics.

This is not so much a review as it is a comment. But since we no longer have message boards, I guess I'll make it here.I have read a variety of reviews and synopses of this movie, including every one on this website, but nobody ever mentions the fact that Fred and Emily are going to have a baby. Perhaps no one thinks that is important, but to me, that is the ultimate absurdity of their marriage.While Fred and Emily are on the Chinese junk, a woman has a baby. From the way they look at each other, there seems to be the suggestion that Fred and Emily are inspired to have a baby themselves, now that they are reconciled. Back home, Fred wonders whether they can get a "pram" (baby carriage) up the stairs, and Emily responds that they are going to have to get a bigger place anyway, presumably because they will need an extra bedroom.But I could not help wondering, "Whose baby is it?" The movie is not explicit about how far these two went with their philandering, although one gets the sense that Fred and the "princess" went all the way, while Emily and Gordon never went beyond kissing. But with these old movies, so much is left to the imagination that it is hard to tell.Then again, even if we assume that Emily and Gordon did not have sex, I can't help but wonder how long it will take Fred to start wondering whose baby it is.And in any event, if Fred gets so irritated with their cat, what is he going to be like when the squalling baby arrives?Are we really supposed to regard this as a happy ending?

Directed and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the Dale Collins novel, with a screenplay by the director's wife Alma Reville and Val Valentine, this infinitely strange, below average romance drama meanders for 80+ minutes and includes countless, seemingly disconnected, visual experimentations by the director.The story is a simple one - a bored, 8 year married couple receives an inheritance (though this is never made clear) and decide to travel around the world by cruise ship. Though each has a shipboard romance with another passenger, which leads one to enlightenment and the other to disillusionment, eventually they come to their senses; a near death experience also helps to bring them back together.Henry Kendall plays Fred Hill, Joan Barry plays his blonde wife Emily. Accountant Fred is bored with his routine which includes a 35+ minute commute from the office to home, utilizing London's underground system. Hannah Jones (uncredited) plays the Hill's landlord, Mrs. Porter. The couple laments their staid urban life, but luck is with them on this day - they receive a letter telling them that they can pursue their dreams of traveling. They cross the English Channel to Paris during which Fred gets seasick.After seeing some shows and getting inebriated, the couple embarks on a cruise to the Far East aboard a luxury liner. The passengers include a busybody gossiping old maid (Elsie Randolph), an explorer named Commander Gordon (Percy Marmont), a "princess" (the lovely Betty Amann), and an unattached Colonel (Aubrey Dexter, uncredited).While Fred gets seasick again, the Commander keeps company with Emily; eventually, they kiss. The lonely old maid has given Emily something for her husband's seasickness, and soon he is feeling better. Shortly after coming on deck (for the first time?), Fred meets a beautiful woman that's introduced to him as "The Princess".Unlike his wife, Fred wastes no time in pursuing a liaison, with the princess. By the end of the cruise (Singapore), each is ready to ditch their spouse for their new lover. But while the Commander, who up until this point had held his tongue, tells Emily what a useless sham her husband is, he also lets slip the fact that the princess is just an adventurer who's only after Fred for his money. Emily decides she can't leave Fred and returns to expose this truth to her husband. Though he initially refuses to believe it, he learns that the "princess" has left and taken his 1,000 pounds with her.Fred and Emily, for want of anything else, stick together and book passage home on a steamer ship with the last of their money. However, during their voyage, the ship strikes something and begins to sink. Trapped in their cabin, the Hills believe they are about to die. But when they wake, they find themselves on a deserted (except for a black cat and a suicide victim), listless ship.A Chinese junk happens upon the now, thanks to Fred and Emily leaving their porthole open, sinking ship. Its passengers climb aboard to loot it while the Hills climb aboard the junk. They hungrily eat what they are fed until they learn that the cat was part of their meal. A baby is born to the junk's (only?) woman.In the next scene, the Hills are home and are amicably greeted by Mrs. Porter. Soon, though, they are back to the argumentative state of their marriage once again, as if nothing had happened.The movie's sound, on the DVD I received from Netflix, was atrocious for a film that was made in 1931. The director used music and silent film placards throughout, perhaps in an attempt to mask the abysmal sound quality.

Predictably well Crafted and Visually Interesting Early Hitchcock. This is a Comedy/Drama with none of the Thriller or Suspense Traits that one would expect. But Hitch was never one to shy away from Humour and was quite good at it, and like here, it was usually Dark with a Bite of Sarcasm and Satire.A Movie that is Broad in Scope and tells the Soap Opera Tale of Infidelity and Marital Angst aboard an Ocean Cruise. There are quite a few touches from a Director who Loved the Camera and Played with it as much as the Audience. It is a good looking Film with some very Quirky Characters bouncing off the Couple as they find out things about Themselves as well as the World around Them.The Second Half brings things Home with more Drama and less Lover's Angst and the Situations are Bizarre and Intriguing. It is well worth a Watch for anyone interested in Early Cinema, Hitchcock Sidestepping (but not really) His usual Fascination with Death and its Surroundings, or for just Movie Fans in General. Keep an eye out for Cats that insist on exploring the Dinner Table. Overall, the Movie will not disappoint.