christopher-underwood I just love this movie. Granted, a little too much time and space is given to Ray Walston early on as he over reacts and overacts to the idea that his wife might be deceiving him, but then filming began with Peter Sellers in the role and nobody would have complained then. Apart from that all is very good, turning brilliant as the grossly underrated Felicia Farr shines and the golden boy himself arrives playing a parody of himself. And if all that was not enough, with the edgy storyline developing and the jokes and dialogue crackling we get a bonus - Kim Novak. She is sensational here, utilising the dialogue and situation to give a marvellous performance of great depth. The film is intelligent, daring (for the time) very likeable and best of all, actually very funny. Great!

pacolopezpersonal-22057 2:34:29 An excessive time length, few characters, too much and empty dialogue to tell few things and with little grace. The songs of George & Ira Gershwin along with the performance of Ray Walston are the best of the film. Incatalogable as musical or pure comedy. Kim Novak shows up too much in everything but interpretation. Maybe this review is like the waiter at the beginning. Everyone laughs but him.

JLRMovieReviews Dean Martin plays a character named Dino in this Billy Wilder film, Kiss Me, Stupid, centering on Ray Walston's jealousy and possessive nature when it comes to his wife, played wonderfully by Felicia Farr (Jack Lemmon's wife in real life.) Ray and Cliff Osmond are songwriters on the side (Ray being a piano teacher and Cliff being a mechanic by trade) in a small town in Nevada, so when Dino is driving through on his way to a gig, they make the most of it, making the car undriveable and making Dino stay the night at Ray's house. By way of trying to get him to buy a song and make millions, Cliff proposes an unusual idea. Due to Dino's known proclivities, "Why don't we get a girl from The Belly Button for him?" But when they feel that it would be a bigger favor for it to be Ray's wife, Cliff says, "Introduce her as your wife." After a fight with Felicia, getting her out of the house, they set it all up with Kim Novak as Polly the Pistol. I believe I read somewhere that this film was criticized by the Legion of Decency or some such religious groups because of the film's disregard towards convention. In fact, to a degree, the film (and Cliff Osmond's character especially) does come across as rather crass, uncouth, obnoxious and downright disgusting, as it revels in mud. But almost because of its outrageousness, we feel it's laughing at itself. The witty dialogue and script by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is the real star here, as it drops several popular names and makes fun of them. Cliff Osmond is memorable as his crude friend, singing "I'm a Poached Egg," one of several songs written for the film by the Gershwins. But Felicia Farr comes off best of the four leads, and this is probably the meatiest role of her career. I would now discuss the whole "What would you ask your wife to do for the sake of money?" aspect of the film but that would take a whole 300-word essay to get into that. But ironically as loose in morals as this film purports to be in the beginning, it's interesting to see how things develop and how Ray's brain works as Dino works on Polly. Things all work out in the end, but maybe not in the way you expect. But if you need to stop to connect the dots in Wilder's script and mind, which entertains, if not ruffling some feathers along the way, then think quick. Get ready for a wild and thought-provoking ride! Better yet, just Kiss Me Stupid.

bobbysoxer97 From the time to film opens to the end credits; it oozes with the Wilder touch. The plot of this '60's picture was very edgy for it's time...and it turned out to be rather edgy for me too. It has a deeply cynical aspect to it; making it a little hard for me to take in. Dean Martin's performance was very Rat Pack-y and plays up the swinger image to quite an extreme; "...there couldn't be enough of you...baby." Novak, who was planning on a retirement, took a part in this picture for the sole purpose of being able to work with Wilder; I'm glad she did. Her character made me want to crawl up in a ball and cry my eyes out, all the while remaining delightfully funny. In a nutshell? It's really a rather vulgar film. It has moments of brilliance...yet, doesn't even start to compare with Wilder's own "The Apartment." Yes, it deals with basically the same subject matter, but the writing was more brilliant and much more subtle. I recommend only if you are a Wilder fanatic (like myself) or a Novak connoisseur. I enjoyed the film overall; I just felt that the writing was lacking.