The Worst Film Ever

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Good movie but grossly overrated

I read somewhere that the biggest fear that CBS had in airing I Love Lucy was that Desi Arnaz's heavy Spanish accent would not be understood by the viewing audience. Not only did that prove not to be true, but Desi occasionally mangling the language became a good staple for jokes.The show that typified the 50s made its debut in 1951 and ran through to 1960 albeit in an hour occasional special format by then. And it ran it seemed forever and ever on weekday mornings on CBS. Long after Lucy and Desi were divorced in real life, everybody wanted to see Lucille Ball's antics even though they had seen them a gazillion times by then. Who didn't like to see Lucy stomping the grapes in Italy and getting into a grape fight with one of the locals? Or getting trapped against the kitchen wall by a loaf of bread she baked with too much yeast? Or my particular favorite, her buying two sides of beef and getting enough meat to stock a butcher store and then storing it in what she thinks is a cold furnace. Greatest barbecue in history as she points out in the end of the episode.And meeting movie stars, those episodes were in a class by themselves. Despite being married to an orchestra leader on TV and in real life, she was obsessed with celebrities of all kinds. Desi's trip to Hollywood was a season in and of itself with her getting Richard Widmark to autograph a grapefruit, John Wayne's footprints being stolen and my favorite of William Holden getting a pie in the face at the Brown Derby. Could Brad Pitt take a pie like Holden, I ask you?Lucy was aided and abetted in her goofy madness by Vivian Vance who was her neighbor and landlord's wife. Always reluctant, but always going along, the Ricardos and Mertzes had a landlord/tenant relationship like none other in history. The landlord was William Frawley irascible tightwad, but lovable in his own way. In real life Frawley and Vance couldn't stand each other and that lent their scenes a bit of unexpected bite. I Love Lucy set the standard for a half hour situation comedy that everyone else has followed. The writing was superb, the situations were classic and it's all imitated right down to today. Still those syndicated reruns are watched somewhere in the world every minute.What's not to like about Lucy?

To be honest, I think "I love Lucy" should receive a 10/10 on IMDb and why? Because I love Lucy, you love Lucy, and we all love Lucy! Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Ricardo, wacky wife of Ricky Ricardo(Desi Arnaz), a famous conga drum player(he's known his hit song "Babalu".) They live next door with their landlords Ethel Mertz(Vivian Vance) and Fred Mertz(Bill Frawly). And, when it comes to Lucy Ricardo, there's no stopping the memorable laughs! Now, let me introduce you to two of 10 of my favorite episodes...Lucy Does a TV Commercial- Lucy gets drunk from Vitavetavigimin during a commercial shooting. Every time she drinks that stuff, she becomes more and more loopy! I couldn't stop laughing! Home Movies- During a showing of Ricky's "Home Movies" many clips are mixed in with his song. And when it got to the point where the movie was going backwards and fast-forwarded, I almost laughed my head off! You'll love Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred in the classic TV series "I Love Lucy"! I guarantee you'll be laughing so hard, you'll fall out of your seats! I recommend this show to anyone who loves Lucy! 1000000/10

In "L.A. At Last!," when the Ricardos and Mertzes arrive in California, they are supposed to be pulling right in to the driveway of the fictional Beverly Palms Hotel. But their car is shown driving into the then real Beverly Carlton on West Olympic Boulevard. The "Beverly Carlton" sign and Canon Drive street sign are visible upon careful viewing.This hotel is now the Avalon, and the internal set scenes from the Hollywood episodes are fairly consistent with the Avalon, even today, with balconies overlooking a curved pool. However, the Hollywood back drop, added to the longer view in the internal set scenes as mentioned here under "trivia," would not have been accurate, since the Beverly Carlton was about six miles to the southeast.

Whenever I think about the first times I watched I Love Lucy, with my family during the early 1960's, I recall just as clearly my mother's reactions as I do the show itself. I can still picture her jerking and writhing on the sofa as she laughed hysterically.I enjoyed I Love Lucy back then, too. I did not get the messages behind some of the more nuanced comments between Fred and Ethel or Lucy and Ricky, but at ages six and seven I certainly saw the humor in Lucy's mishaps, misadventures, and pranks, as well in her husband Ricky's frustration. A viewer does not need much intellect to find something to like about I Love Lucy, though as an adult s/he can better appreciate the show's basic premise: envious wife of popular band leader sometimes takes extreme measures to gain some recognition for herself. A viewer doesn't need to possess a keen awareness either to have noticed that I Love Lucy evolved before it became so popular.In one of the first episodes, Lucy and Ricky shout, sing, pound the floor, and beat on drums late at night to irritate their demanding neighbors in the apartment below. The two behave as if of the same ilk.Desi Arnaz may have decided sometime during the show's first season that he and Lucy could not both have impulsive and emotionally driven personalities. The formula for the show's repeated success may have resulted from his realization that his character needed sophistication to balance Lucy's lack of it.For a program that first appeared nearly 60 years ago and usually featured a grown woman who acted out her feelings like a 13-year old, I Love Lucy almost never comes across as corny. In fact (once I Love Lucy established itself), only one episode, when starstruck Ethel and Lucy take turns jumping and kissing John Wayne on the cheek, has served to remind me that I would probably feel like an outcast as an adult in the 1950's.In the great majority of cases, I Love Lucy continues to entertain. People recognize the imaginative situations, clever dialog, and the impressive performances.... despite the passing of time.