Simply A Masterpiece

Beautiful, moving film.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

(Flash Review)Posing as women in order to become part of an all-female music group in order to elude Chicago gangsters is quite the foundation for this late 50's comedic romp. Wrong place, wrong time for two blokes who witness gangsters….er….um….doing business and run away after they are spotted is how the movie starts out. While it starts off rather serious it quickly switches to a screwball comedy with a gluttony of gags around the two guys trying to keep their female cover within the band as long as they can while not getting aroused (double entendre) as they befriend Marilyn's character. How long will they be able to keep their cover and their lips off Marilyn? Will those Chicago gangsters ever catch wind of their whereabouts? Overall the plot was fine, nothing great. Light and corny jokes, telegraphed awkward scenes and many scenes that accentuate Marilyn's spectrum of skills. A showpiece for Marilyn's fame.

Marilyn Monroe wearing dresses that expose a lot of her breast and a dress that goes so far down she might as well wear nothing. This is awful for a movie made in 1959.Tony Curtis dressing up as a female, changing and his voice is not funny.The reason for the men dressing up as women is stupid and I don't think the reason the writers use is legitimate for dressing up men like women to escape gangsters.This is a movie transsexuals will enjoy. A lot of series with homosexuals are being put back on TV like: Frasier with 2 gays in real life but are his father and his brother on TV, Modern Family-gay fathers, Will and Grace-more homos, Murder she wrote has many homosexual actors, Ellen series she is a homosexual.Who is TV, Comcast and other trying to promote.TV makes me sick I am starting to hate TV

This movie has not aged; it's still wonderful, full of laughs and surprises. The violence is handled well, almost as slapstick, and Marilyn thoroughly deserved her Best Actor award. The friendship and tension between Curtis and Lemmon helps carry the story, as does Joe E Brown as the fourth corner in this love triangle, but the real star is writer Billy Wilder. The dialog is perfect, probably the result of endless rewrites. Osgood gets the final line, "Well - nobody's perfect" but the script continues, hinting at a sequel: "But that's another story - and we're not quite sure the public is ready for it."

SOME LIKE IT HOT is a tasteful blend between a hilarious comedy, an unconvincing romance, and a parody of crime. The story is very simple, with some universal themes. It is interesting to see so many different characters, which complement each other, in one film.Two friends and musicians flee from Chicago, because they have witnessed a massacre. They are persecuted by dangerous gangsters. The only salvation for the two of them is a female music group, that is traveling by train to Florida. They disguise themselves as women and join the band. However, it is not easy to be a man, who is disguised as a woman...Mr. Wilder has managed to spin a good joke at the expense of American girls' lust, madness in high society and parodies on crime, which have marked the thirties of the last century in America. There are not many films which develop nice and pleasant romance from a little nasty joke. A funny disguise, caricature of mafia, naive rich men and silly blondes offer good fun, but do not guarantee a good movie. The protagonists are, what is almost incredible, very complex characters, which are torn between crucial issues of life, mentality and lifestyle. They, through a hilarious adventure, are rushing toward a trivial goal. The essence is in a series of meaningless and futile attempts, which were aided by the opportunism and escapism.Black and white technique is a big hit in this case. Scenery exudes with a certain charm. Makeup and costumes are not too showy. The soundtrack is very good.Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk is a ukulele player and singer. She is a very simple character who has complex problems, which involve an escape from a saxophonist and hunt for a young and helpless millionaire. Ms. Monroe, besides deliberately infantile voice and enchanting stature, has showed, for the umpteenth time, a talent for comedy. Tony Curtis as Joe/"Josephine"/"Shell Oil Junior" is a poor saxophone player. He is a serious and somewhat calculating character. His vocal imitation of a big movie star is more than interesting. He is everything that Sugar wants and all that which she escapes.Jack Lemmon as Jerry (Gerald)/"Daphne", is a double bass player. He's a bit silly character, who wants to escape from reality at all costs. Each new opportunity or possibility, like a boomerang, returs him to the uncertainty. His support is Joe E. Brown (Osgood Fielding III) as an old and perverted millionaire.Frequent crafts, through hilarious scenes of escape, midnight tango, or an excellent punchline at the end of the film, bring a tremendous amount of laughter and fun.