Very disappointed :(

Overrated

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

"BRUBAKERRR!!" -- Peter Lawford "Bwana wanna taxi." -- tigress/waitress "It's bad luck to be superstitious." -- Loy "Half-Basque Italian." -- Jack Weston. "I think it makes its own quiet statement." -- numerous times. "You are a prince." -- Deneuve. All from what I consider one of the hundred most under-viewed flicks of all time. Yeah, the action gets really slap-sticky in the third act, but it only adds to intensifying the sense of the intensifying isolation of our princess and her frog. Play it a few times and appreciate the subtlety of the romantic element. I heartily agree with the need for DVD of this most delicious movie.

Whatever praise - and criticism - has been directed at this film in other comments here is pretty much right on. But the elements considered by some as flaws need not necessarily be bothersome; they aren't to me. That all of the supporting characters are rather broadly drawn caricatures works, I think, because it leaves Lemmon and Deneuve, at the heart of the story, the only seemingly real people in it, one might say. Isn't that the way love is sometimes? Maybe everyone around you thinks you're nuts (hence the title?), but to the smitten couple, the exact opposite seems the case.What we really have here is the late-60s equivalent of screwball romantic comedy. As such, it's full of colorful characters and unlikely situations, with a good dose of social satire thrown in - with marriage, in particular, under the microscope. We have high-powered executive Lawford and Deneuve, his neglected trophy wife; put-upon suburbanite Lemmon and Kellerman, his self-absorbed, psychobabble-spouting spouse; Weston trying to be the assertive "man of the house" with his bickering "Mimsy;" Loy and Boyer as the long-married and still very much in love eccentrics. But THE APRIL FOOLS isn't about marriage, of course; it's about love.If you can find this picture, which is pretty hard to do as of this writing, it will reward with wonderful moments, delivered by a varied cast which pretty much represents the spectrum of players: the just-emerging Kellerman, Dillon and Mars; Lemmon, Lawford and Weston in their prime and old pros Boyer and Loy. Deneuve finds herself in an unfamiliar milieu here, but with her character that works in her favor. It's unexpected - and thoroughly amusing - when she suddenly lashes out at Mars: "Leesen, if you toush me agayne, I'll geev you a sock-in-the-eye!"My favorite moment: Lemmon's awkward attempt to be suave and "come on" to a sexy blond at Lawford's swanky party. The payoff is priceless.

My all-time favourite movie. Great Story, well filmed, superb cast, and captured the artificial attitudes of the 1960's perfectly.Jack Lemmon played the part of Howard Brubaker and, as always expected of Jack, he was great.Catherine Deneuve proved that her natural beauty is not just skin deep and who would have thought that She and Jack Lemmon would be such a resounding success together.Peter Lawford played Peter Lawford, as usual, very well and, was perfectly cast for the role of Gunther.Supporting cast were great and, since this early appearance of Kenneth Mars, why have we not seen more of him?

This comic love fable has nothing really new to say, but Catherine Deneuve is beautiful as always and there are fun moments. Jack Lemmon had already beaten this character into the ground in the past, and it does become wearisome to watch him. Jack Warden and Harvey Korman are hilarious as drunken commuter train buddies of Lemmon and Peter Lawford is believable for the ONLY time as Deneuve's shallow, rich husband.Stuart Rosenberg was not really cut out to direct this kind of story, but does his best. Charles Boyer and Myrna Loy have presence as the older couple (still happy) after all these years. a 6 out of 10. Best performance = Jack Weston.