I saw this movie with my family and we were all shocked at just how amazingly bad this film could be! On the plus side (and there is ONLY ONE), the supporting characters were really cute and their Damond Runyan dialog was hilarious (any film with Eugene Palette can't be 100% bad--in this case, only 99.44% bad). However, despite wonderful support which at least allows the film to earn a 2, everything else about this film was absolutely horrid--and I am talking about worse than THAT HAGAN GIRL, PARNELL or SWING YOUR LADY bad!!! So bad that I wonder how this movie slipped by being in the FIFTY WORST MOVIES book by Harry Medved!
The very biggest problem with the film are the leads, Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball. Fonda's character is so dumb and such a chump for Lucille that he defies common sense--no one is that stupidly in love with anyone--especially someone so thoroughly unlikable! Lucille Ball, to put it bluntly, is nastier and more self-centered than Hitler or Kim Il-Jong and yet this idiot keeps calling her "your Highness" and doing everything for this horrible invalid. There's only so much sympathy ANYONE can have until they ultimately kill the person they are caring for--and Lucille was that bad!!! Because Fonda is such a sap, after a short time you stop feeling sorry for him and start hating him. Don't believe me?! Well, Lucille in her wheelchair throws a fit and insists that Fonda MUST take her to Florida for the winter. However, they have zero money--none. So, she demands that he pushes the wheelchair from New York to Florida,....and he DOES!!!!! So, not only is he totally stupid, but he does the impossible. And if this doesn't convince you Fonda is 100% stupid and too-dumb-to-live, when he commits a robbery, he accidentally lets his Social Security card fall out at the scene of the crime to identify who he was!!!!! As for Lucille, while her being truly despicable could have been a nice departure from her usual sweet or sassy roles, she truly descended to the level of almost being Satan. Do you need another example of her evil? Well, when they finally get to Florida, Lucille insists that Fonda MUST pretend to be her butler and carry her about the beach. Then, when an old boyfriend of hers shows up and sees she is handicapped, she screams at and berates Fonda!! With her being that bad and him being that dumb, the movie can't help but sink from under itself.
Apart from the total unlikability of the leads, the film abounds with clichés and sappiness. The most egregious examples are when the cops find out that it was Fonda who committed the robbery but let him go because,....well I really DON'T know why!! And also, and this is the part that made our skin crawl, at the very end, Fonda lifts Lucille out of her wheelchair in front of the crowd at the huge party and SHAZAM--she can stand and actually kind of dance even though she's paralyzed!!!! At this point, mercifully, this awful film ended. Thank goodness, otherwise I might have thrown my shoe through the TV tube!!
Don't watch this film unless you are at least as dumb as Fonda's character. Don't say I didn't warn you!!!
The very biggest problem with the film are the leads, Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball. Fonda's character is so dumb and such a chump for Lucille that he defies common sense--no one is that stupidly in love with anyone--especially someone so thoroughly unlikable! Lucille Ball, to put it bluntly, is nastier and more self-centered than Hitler or Kim Il-Jong and yet this idiot keeps calling her "your Highness" and doing everything for this horrible invalid. There's only so much sympathy ANYONE can have until they ultimately kill the person they are caring for--and Lucille was that bad!!! Because Fonda is such a sap, after a short time you stop feeling sorry for him and start hating him. Don't believe me?! Well, Lucille in her wheelchair throws a fit and insists that Fonda MUST take her to Florida for the winter. However, they have zero money--none. So, she demands that he pushes the wheelchair from New York to Florida,....and he DOES!!!!! So, not only is he totally stupid, but he does the impossible. And if this doesn't convince you Fonda is 100% stupid and too-dumb-to-live, when he commits a robbery, he accidentally lets his Social Security card fall out at the scene of the crime to identify who he was!!!!! As for Lucille, while her being truly despicable could have been a nice departure from her usual sweet or sassy roles, she truly descended to the level of almost being Satan. Do you need another example of her evil? Well, when they finally get to Florida, Lucille insists that Fonda MUST pretend to be her butler and carry her about the beach. Then, when an old boyfriend of hers shows up and sees she is handicapped, she screams at and berates Fonda!! With her being that bad and him being that dumb, the movie can't help but sink from under itself.
Apart from the total unlikability of the leads, the film abounds with clichés and sappiness. The most egregious examples are when the cops find out that it was Fonda who committed the robbery but let him go because,....well I really DON'T know why!! And also, and this is the part that made our skin crawl, at the very end, Fonda lifts Lucille out of her wheelchair in front of the crowd at the huge party and SHAZAM--she can stand and actually kind of dance even though she's paralyzed!!!! At this point, mercifully, this awful film ended. Thank goodness, otherwise I might have thrown my shoe through the TV tube!!
Don't watch this film unless you are at least as dumb as Fonda's character. Don't say I didn't warn you!!!