ptb-8 Well it's a 2 or a 10 depending on how and where you see it. Personally I would advise every gay movie night schedule include this gasp worthy drivel for girls to howl and throw things at the screen. YUM YUM TREE is possibly the most inane insulting sexist farce this side of CARRY ON AGAIN DOCTOR which makes the viewer crippled with lockjaw horror. If you are an infantile dimwit swinging bachelor who fantasizes about trapping women in the apartment he has rented to them... well very SAW and HOSTEL, now-day, this 1963 so called sex comedy is as much fun as a wet towel. And a towel from the dog bed not the bedroom. Jack Lemmon is strident and he must have been so embarrassed in later years for making this. Imogen Coca is wasted in a lame role as sadly she always was. This is a terrible film. Insulting. The TV music with the tiddly xylophone music to signal 'comedy scene' is groan-worthy. Stupid eye rolling dialog and bimbo characters make this ideal for bad movie night especially for Lesbians who will choke on the sexism of the whole concept and execution. The ONE good thing is his red car (!) in which they go on a picnic....

Damfino1895 I really like Jack Lemmon, he has appeared in so many great movies during his career, but, what the heck induced him to do this total stinker of a movie.I watched this movie in growing disbelief at what is a teenage boy's fantasy of being a rich man doing nothing worthwhile with his life owning a apartment block full of gorgeous young women wearing next to nothing and having free rein to do what he likes because he is their landlord.What possessed Jack Lemmon to take on the role of a disgusting lecherous, moral free man who is planning to seduce (rape more like) a young virgin who lives in his apartment block. The story is so full of plot holes, why didn't anyone one report him to the police? Beats me! Anyway, I failed to make it to the end as when I heard Irene's speech about the man and the woman's role in a marriage I nearly choked on my cup of tea, only a man with a superiority complex over women could have written that baloney.Completely humour free and a waste of two hours of my life. I think I'd better watch Some Like It Hot or The Odd Couple again to erase Lemmmon's Hogan out of my conscience.

krdement This movie is a real stinker. I confess that I never have understood the comic appeal of extremely annoying characters. They just grate on my nerves. That describes Jack Lemmon in spades in this so-called comedy (which is really a farce). If a farce depicts mostly unbelievable characters portrayed by hammy actors in situations that defy any credibility, then this is a farce, and for those of you out there who enjoy such movies, this is the one for you.Almost as annoying as Mr. Lemmon's character is the boyfriend, portrayed by Dean Jones. I was, however, surprised to learn via this film that Mr. Jones appeared in films made outside of Disney - where he really belongs! Although Carol Lynley is no great shakes as an actress, she is beautiful - never more so than in this film. She is the only positive in this whole mess.This is a prime example of Hollywood's implosion after the golden age - due in no small part to the Code. Hollywood was totally incapable of depicting the 60's in a way that remotely reflected the reality. To prove the point, you only have to listen to the soundtracks of films that attempt to reflect the Pop Culture of the time: NONE OF THE MOVIES OF THAT ERA use any contemporaneously popular music! It is always some Hollywood producer's ersatz imitation. The soundtracks are a joke! Films like Under the Yum Yum Tree have that same hopelessly out-of-touch feel, even though music is not a critical element. The bizarre distortion of those times in films such as this is just as annoying as Mr. Lemmon's character.The equally bizarre concoction of morals - from hokey prudishness to monumental lecherousness - is not depicted with humor, but with that same Hollywood perspective that bears so little resemblance to reality that it is a hollow basis for humor.

rosscinema This is one of the most unfunny films that I have ever seen! I love Jack Lemmon and he's probably one of the top five actors that has ever lived but what was he thinking when he agreed to do this mess? I know its the sixties but people were not that prudish about a man and a woman living together at that time. And the character that Lemmon portrays is so annoying and lecherous that by the second time he barged into Carol Lynley's apartment they should have called the cops. And what was Dean Jones waiting for? He should have punched Lemmon right in the face for all the crap he was pulling. The one thing that I did enjoy was seeing one of my favorite actress's in another small role. Joy Harmon plays Lynley's friend Ardice and I wish her part was bigger. Also Irene Tsu who along with Joy Harmon was one of many hot chicks who played small roles in the sixties. But the film itself is a badly dated and extremely annoying embarrassment.