Let's be realistic.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

A big plot hole that spoils the fun. On a ship, Charles (Henry Fonda) might have had trouble checking up on Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) and had to rely on ship's purser. But at the Pike house, as soon as "Lady Eve" and "Sir Alfred" showed up, you would think a rich guy (probably a billionaire by today's wealth) would have been burning up the transatlantic telegraph cable (in spite of WW 2) to check up on the existence and whereabouts of the two. He would have found out in 1-2 days that either they didn't exist, or weren't in U.S. So there would be no question about "Lady Eve" actually being Jean.

Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in what is considered one of the best comedy "farces" of all time. It creeps up on the viewer slowly after Jean Harrington (Barbara) trips Charlie Pike (Fonda) in the grand dinning room of a cruise ship, just to get his attention. She is a card shark and intends to take him for every penny he is worth, but Jean falls head-over-heels in love with him. Her dad, the Colonel, (Charles Coburn) cheats Charlie out of $32,000 with a check he never cashes. Charlie is the heir to the family brewing fortune and prefers to capture snakes in the Amazon, so he brings a small one on shipboard. Jean breaks her shoe (on purpose) and lures him back to her stateroom, and thus the romance begins begins. A colorful cast includes gravel-voiced Eugene Paulette as "Charlie's dad" and William Frawley as "Muggsy", a family "retainer". In the last 40 minutes of the film, Director Sturges pulls out all the stops as Charlie is plagued by a barrage of pratfalls and stains several dinner jackets, the best one being the "gravy and prime rib spill". Jean passes herself off as "Lady Eve Sidwich" and Charlie is captivated once again, this time into marriage. Impossible, one would think, with fake credentials, but go with it. On their honeymoon trip on the train, she invents a "casting call" of "dozens" of willing Englishmen, starting at age 16, that she has amorous adventures with. Charlie leaves the train in anger and disgust. Jean is unable to go through with the final deception of a lucrative divorce settlement, much to the disapproval of her father. She meets him again in the same shipboard scenario. This time, when she trips him, he chases her back to her stateroom post-haste. "I'm married" he confesses. "So am I" she replies. Everyone failed to realize that Jean and Eve were the exact same person, as her fake British accent starts to slip toward the end of the film. Only Muggsy gets it right: "It's the same dame". Of course she is!

This isn't easy for Henry Fonda, being rather backward with a sole life interest in snakes and other reptiles and being the only son of a multi-millionaire of beer, who wants to get him married at any price with whomever, and so he meets with the worst possible death trap for a bachelor, Barbara Stanwyck at her smartest and loveliest, partnering her father in cheating at cards. Charles Coburn is that father and makes the best of it as another father who wants his daughter married at any price with whomever as long as he is rich. This film was entirely made for fun, and there are many irregularities, but it's the fun that counts. Mind all the whistles. They play an important part symbolically and make the finale. Eric Blore is another bloke cheating the heads off of all society and entering just at the right critical moment to save the situation by doubling the trouble, together with Eugene Palette in on of his many exhilarating performances, making the company of merry rogues complete. Everyone dominating the stage here is a cheat with accomplished faked identities and playing for kicks, except poor Henry Fonda, who is totally honest and innocent and is well taken care of and fares the better off for not understanding a thing. His silliness is adorable throughout the film, and his play-acting as this very odd character is a marvel, matching Barbara's resplendent superiority perfectly. No wonder she has to fall for him, while he just follows her in the fall... The music also plays an important part, and even Wagner's Pilgrim Chorus adds solemnly to the comedy at another of the film's multitude of moments of enjoying hypocrisy.One of the most hilarious comedies of all time, and you can see it many times and still enjoy its freshness.

Charles the man that just came back home seems to have every woman watching him everywhere he goes but one finds a way to get his attention. This may turn into a relationship, but what if it ended and the girlfriend disguised herself as another woman and makes Charles fall for her again and not even know it. Now that would be funny, but wait she just makes it even better as the Lady Eve to create more comedy with that.Eve knows how to wrap herself around Charles who isn't the brightest around women is able to create a great screwball comedy that will make anyone laugh. The two characters take the audience through another film that you really don't need to understand as long as you are laughing.A great film done by Preston Sturges probably one his best I have seen with a great set of actors that make the comedy so good.