Redundant and unnecessary.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The Singer Midgets return to Hollywood and face the many legends which have filled movie books for years. Of course, they don't mention Nazi agents on the set and a fancy royal couple with a pooch named Strudel. Chevy Chase is a government agent guarding the Duke and Duchess and Carrie Fisher guarding the residents of Munchkinland and the winged monkeys. This leads to chases all over the Rainbow Hotel and MGM studios, visiting the "Gone With the Wind" set, pretty remarkable considering it was filmed at Selznick. The actual surviving "Wizard of Oz" munchkins appear as themselves, many ageless considering that Oz was made 40 years before.Sounds promising, yes? NO! This is one of the great comic disasters over the past 40 years, a film so unfunny that I wanted the witch to swoop down and cover them with the poison from her hourglass. Eve Arden tries very hard with a Eastern European accent to be amusing but is defeated by tasteless material concerning her beloved pup whom she fails to recognize with changing looks. Joseph Maher also tries as the Duke with similar results. Billy Barty gets a few good pratfalls as the German spy who starts his mission by hailing Hitler right in the no-nads. With its Mel Brooks style humor, you think there would be some humor but all it ends up being is a Bugs Bunny cartoon where all the gags land with a thud. And oh, those songs, which sound like the original munchkin songs sped up to make the voices even higher.

Campy at it's best. A lighthearted look at one of the best movies ever made. It's a spoof, not to be taken too seriously. A spoof about the making of the Wizard of Oz possibly based on a rumor started by Ms. Judy Garland herself. During an interview she was asked what the midget actors were like to work with. Her reply "They were drunks!" (she was joking, of course.)Take that rumor, ad a little espionage, Chevy Chase in his SNL days, Carrie Fisher in her Star Wars days, throw in the incomparable Billy Barty...And you'll have plenty of laughs. True, as one other commentator said, it's not very PC. A few movies in the early 80's had that flaw...and mind you it takes place in an even earlier decade. It's also very slapstick, and cheeky. But I loved it for it's slapstick and cheekiness. It's a spoof. And, if you enjoy spoofs you'll enjoy Under The Rainbow.6.5/10 from me, for pure laughs.

I recently left a message for MGM, regarding a release of "Under The Rainbow" on DVD, & sent them a link to the IMDb comments about this movie.If you would like your comments heard, please visit the following MGM web page, http://www.mgm.com/help.do, and instantly let your request be known.With any luck, our comments will be forwarded to the appropriate department, & they will finally get the ball rolling on a DVD release of this cult classic.Thanks! ...Randy G. :)

This movie is a farce. It's big, broad humor... or little broad humor, to be accurate because most of the actors are little people.The Culver Hotel played host to all of the actors who played munchkins during the filming of The Wizard of Oz. Apparently, it was a debacle. The actors partied, drank, and wreaked havoc on the hotel during a stay that has become legendary in Los Angeles.While the specific events of this film are fictional, most of the movie is indeed based on a true event. Now, of course a great story doesn't always make for a good movie. This is indeed a broad, goofy, slapstick comedy. Whatever your level of offense at ethnic and physical stereotypes, some of the humor is groan-worthy.