Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

rodrig58 This is a very special film, a crazy comedy, directed by a great director, Otto Preminger, who made only dramas. A lot of big names in it, Groucho Marx, Mickey Rooney, George Raft, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Jackie Gleason and a few others. The film is neither bad nor extraordinary, it has some cool moments. Mostly for those who love actors even in bad situations/stories/scripts.

bear1955 If you dig Firesign Theater's late 60's - early 70s' comedy LP's, you may really like this. It would be familiar except for name stars in this movie. (Artistically) they didn't need to put Skidoo on film. Maybe it would be more highly regarded if it remained a work of sound - it could have remained theater of the mind! The cast generally has VERY distinctive voices and I really do mean that this story would be fine as longform comedy LP, requiring a narrator and some excellent foley work. The "Skidoo" story also would have made for a fun off-off Broadway happening! The Firesign Theater connection I notice means I'll need to take another look at Skidoo from DVR'ing on TCM, though there is nothing easily found to show any connection in the making of Skidoo of any Firesign principals; some of their aural devices and trippy plot devices may have been influenced by this movie and the 1968 movie "Head" additionally. "Head" is its' visuals. "Skidoo" is an idea that becomes shortchanged, enhanced, loved and notorious in parts by it's sets, props and the look of the actors. Anyway, I would say if you like either "Skiddoo" or "Head", see the other one!

flash-126 I am a lifelong Groucho Marc fan.His role is little more than a cameo appearance.There is a slew of celebrities in this flick, but ...There is not a laugh to be found that could get a chuckle to an adolescent.It is one of the dumbest movies that you can waste your time on.The level of acting is embarrassingly weak.The storyline, theme, plot, etc. is childish.It seems that the producers/directors etc. had hardly any idea re" "hippies" There is token breasts revealed, but they are on two (2) "hippy girl's" breasts replete with finger-paint.The only saving grace is just how short the movie is.

Bill Slocum Jackie Gleason goes on an acid trip, Carol Channing does a strip tease, and Groucho Marx comes on to a teenager in "Skidoo", a movie that amazes by playing even worse than that reads.It's director Otto Preminger's attempt at a subversive comedy, celebrating the hippie lifestyle as a positive contrast to middle-class American morality. While Gleason's Tough Tony Banks is sent to prison by his former mob boss "God" (Groucho) to ice a stoolie, his wife Flo (Channing) welcomes some 40 hippies to their California mansion, it being a year before the Manson Family showed why this might not be a good idea. When Gleason decides to buck "God's" plan and not do the murder, Flo and the hippies must save the day."Who's your tailor, Sitting Bull?" Tony says when meeting head hippie Stash (John Phillip Law), establishing early on this is going to be another of those grouchy character roles for The Great One. That and the culture clash will be presented in the simple "Billy Jack" style of old squares objecting to the way kids wear their hair.I'm not a fan of Jackie Gleason's film work; his largeness in manner and rough tone tended to make him hard to laugh with on the big screen. Not surprisingly, his best known cinematic turns were in dramatic or serio-comic roles. Here, he is equipped with a Norton like sidekick who gets murdered 15 minutes in, as nothing says laughter like Arnold Stang dead in a car wash. Gleason isn't as obnoxious here as he was in "Don't Drink The Water" the following year, keeping his trademark mugging to a minimum. At least until he licks the wrong envelope and takes that LSD trip.Channing on the other hand mugs up a storm, really throwing herself into her role as she grooves out to a rock song and leads the hippies to save Tony dressed as George Washington but looking more like Captain Crunch. Every line is delivered with that trademark whine and Botox grin long emulated by female impersonators everywhere."Skidoo" doesn't really work the hippie angle and the mob angle so much as plop them next to each other, suggesting that all a gang of hardened criminals needs is a few merry vibes to be won over. As a comedy, the film's idea of laughs is a prison break where all the guards are dosed with acid, making them see naked football players and flop drunkenly to the floor. Or else Groucho as "God", living on a yacht in self-imposed quarantine, like Howard Hughes in fear of germs, trying to get Stash's help in a drug-distribution deal and being flummoxed when the kid tells him business bores him.About the only thing "Skidoo" has working for it, other than an inanely cheerful mood that lends it camp appeal, are some fine musical moments from Harry Nilsson, including singing the entire end credits right up to the copyright: "MCMLXVIII". His tuneful whimsy cuts through otherwise unendurable scenes; though even his title track can't be saved when performed by Channing in her cutsey "peekaboo" manner."You are going on a trip," Tony is told after taking LSD. "If you fight it, it can be a bad trip. If you ride with the waves, it will be a good trip." Fight it or not, there's no question what kind of trip "Skidoo" is.