63
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittHollywood censors made Wilder reshoot one scene, but the original version has been rediscovered; while it's tame by today's standards, it makes the movie's caustic social commentary more potent than ever.
- 70TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineIts idiomatic wordplay and social satire is vintage Wilder, and the opening sequence where Dino performs in a nightclub is one of the funniest things that Wilder has ever done.
- 63New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardCinephiles and Billy Wilder fans get a rare opportunity to see the "slightly dirtier" European ending to the director's 1964 sex farce.
- 60Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA grimly suggestive and unexpectedly tender bedroom farce, Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid is a true film maudit.
- 50New Times (L.A.)Andy KleinNew Times (L.A.)Andy KleinIt just doesn¹t get very good until halfway through, in large part because the usually excellent Walston is miscast.
- 40VarietyVarietyWilder, usually a director of considerable flair and inventiveness (if not always impeccable taste), has not been able this time out to rise above a basically vulgar, as well as creatively delinquent, screenplay, and he has got at best only plodding help from two of his principals, Dean Martin and Kim Novak.