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08/11/08
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:15
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.4/10
Synopsis: In Wilder's smutty low comedy, Dean Martin has little trouble easing into the role of Dino, a womanizing pop singer with a yen for the grape. En route to Hollywood after a Las Vegas gig, he stops... [More]
Reviews for Kiss Me, Stupid
Wilder, usually a director of considerable flair and inventiveness -- has not been able this time out to rise above a basically vulgar, as well as creatively delinquent, screenplay...
08/15/07
Top CriticSprinkling in bad jokes and Rat Pack references, Dean Martin's comic timing and delivery is impeccable -- as he parodies and deconstructs his image as a notorious lover and drunk.
08/15/07
Whatever ambitions this romantic comedy might have had, they were never realized.
11/24/06
No review available.
08/17/06
Characteristically cynical, clever and brash, it's helped out enormously by the performances of Martin, Farr and (particularly) Novak...
06/24/06
No review available.
06/15/05
No review available.
01/21/05
Early production problems show, still fun Wilder
10/19/04
No review available.
04/15/04
What separates 'Stupid' from so many of the so-called 'sex comedies' of the period is its combination of cynicism and directness. Beneath the teasing and the titillation there are some genuinely provocative themes...
08/05/03
Novak is surprisingly affecting as the whore who is determined to make something of herself.
05/24/03
Undeniably lewd, Kiss Me, Stupid exemplifies the go-go Rat Pack sexual sensibilities that fed the American appetite in the dawn of the sexual revolution.
03/10/03
No review available.
10/15/02
Stunningly subversive, even for Wilder.
10/03/02
I recommend Kiss Me, Stupid to the skeptical with no reservations whatsoever.
06/25/02
Kiss Me, Stupid is unlikely to inspire a Broadway musical, top an AFI poll, or birth a hundred-dollar coffee-table book, but it could burnish Wilder's posthumous reputation.
06/18/02
In any event, this has to rank as Wilder's most corrosive and despairing portrait of America.
01/01/00
Both Martin and Novak are at their near best, and the undertone of small-town desperation in Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's script is effectively captured by Walston and his sidekick, Cliff Osmond.
01/01/00
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