Some Like It Hot

I watched this again recently and was still amused, but remain bemused by the furor over Marilyn Monroe. Perhaps I'm unable to see her acting skills because her bombshell appearance is so diverting. It certainly seems to be for the men who watch the film...oh, sorry, who drool over the film! OK, maybe I'm just jealous. I can say with certainty, however, that without Jack Lemmon, that film would have been a dud. Imagine switching out Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis. Do-able, if difficult. Then imagine switching out Jack Lemmon. No go! He is a consummate comedian; all jokes naturally gravitate to him, and cross- dressing suits his acting style to a tee. Curtis is there as straight man (and pretty boy-girl) only. For those of you who've never seen it, Lemmon and Curtis dress up as women in an all- woman band (Monroe is the ukelele player and singer) to escape the mob who are tracking them for being witnesses to a mob crime. Hilarity, of course, ensues, and you will be kept giggling for the entire film. Except, perhaps, in the mob scenes. They're flat and boring, as if all the acting juice in the film was in the Monroe-Lemmon-Curtis scenes and everything else is filler.

year: 1959
length: 120 min.
rating: 3.5
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/combined