Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Myriam Nys One of the better Doris Day-comedies, well-made and enjoyable. It contains quite a few good scenes, such as the disastrous first commercial or the domestic crisis involving giant amounts of soap suds. There are a few possible inconsistencies here and there, such as the fact that a lady gets pregnant at an age where most women have gone through menopause, but still, these things happen. However, I was far from charmed by the underlying message with regard to women. Beverly Boyer (the character played by Doris Day) is very much like one of these miniature ballerina dolls on top of music boxes, who dance for a few minutes and then disappear. She has her little moment in the sun and then it's back to a life of housewifely duties and suburban gentility, mainly because her husband can't cope with the idea (horror of horrors !) that he might have to wait ten minutes before getting dinner. Or else - my hand trembles as I type this - he might come home and discover that his martini was improperly chilled !One does not need to be called Joanna Russ in order to realize there's a lot of contempt towards women hidden here. In case you doubt this, feel free to watch the scene where the said lady of mature years is about to give birth to her child inside a car. Beverly Boyer, a woman who has given birth herself, can console and assist her, but it is the male obstetrician who delivers the child, after riding to the rescue like a knight in shining armour. Aaah, poor silly women, they try their best - but when things get real, it's only a man who can save the day... For clarity's sake, I'm not attacking male obstetricians, doctors or gynecologists - everyone who undertakes long and difficult studies in order to perform a responsible and socially useful job deserves the utmost respect. What I do dislike, is the idea that only males could or should become obstetricians, doctors or gynecologists, with females spending their time on preparing little lobster cocktails for posh dinner parties. I also object to the idea that women are complete ninnies who know bupkas about deliveries or first aid. You might object that I'm looking at an older movie with the eyes of someone living in 2018. This is true, of course, but there is something mean-spirited and dismissive about the movie's intent which must have felt unpleasant even half a century ago.

clevergirlsmail This movie seems at first to be almost feminist for the time. Doris Day's character is a housewife who has always wanted to be an actress. When she finally gets a role in a soap commercial, her husband (played by James Garner) can't stand it. He believes that she should be perfectly contented with being a housewife. He gives her a tough time about not being at home constantly and she goes out of her way to try to be home. Even going to the extreme of taking photoshoots in their bedroom. James Garner's character is a doctor who delivers babies (this is important later on) and is not home very often so he is even more frustrated when she isnt there. While at the hospital he hears a woman say "there's nothing more fulfilling to a woman than having a baby. He decides he wants to get his wife pregnant but gets frustrated when he drives his car into the new pool that the wife got from her soap company. As the story progresses, the husband tries to make Doris Day's character have a break down at work but pretending to have an affair and going to great lengths to portray it as such. The wife does have a breakdown on live television and makes a fool of herself. She starts to doubt herself even more. In the end Doris helps James deliver a baby and the baby "fulfills her". She has never felt this close to her husband (because he does this every day). She decides that she wants to be a doctor's wife again (apperantly she was no longer his wife when she got a job) and leaves acting behind her.

Robert J. Maxwell James Garner is an OB-GYN kind of doctor and Doris Day is his perky wife with two mischievous but cute kiddies and a live-in maid. It's a wonderful life. The only problem is that Doris has nothing else to occupy her interests, just the PTA and the ketchup she bottles at home. Garner and Day are invited to dinner at a brash old tycoon's house. The media mogul decides that Day would be the perfect television spokesperson for his shampoo. She's hired. It upsets the routine and their home life. Garner resents his wife's working and her absence from her "wifely duties." The maid quits, they hire a new one who speaks only German, there are missed messages that lead to confusion and -- well, I don't know what all.Garner is as placid as the script allows him to be, and Doris Day is always chipper and sexy. She does an expert double take. The kids are a fulsome nuisance with their constant nattering and should be stomped on like little bugs.The story was written by Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart, who know comedy when they write it, but they must have just overdosed on an "I Love Lucy" marathon.It isn't so much that the movie reflects the attitudes of the 1950s. That's not only not bad, but inevitable. "Pillow Talk" used the same axiomatic framework and was very funny. No writers can be held accountable for not predicting the Zeitgeist that lies fifty years in the future.It's that the jokes themselves are weak, sometimes so weak as to be embarrassing. Upon hearing that her salary will be $80,000, Doris Day collapses and sits back into a crate of ripe tomatoes. (Gag.) You want to know the joke I thought was most successful? At the TV studio in which Doris Day tapes her commercials for the shampoo, there is a dramatic "Playhouse 90" sort of production going on. Day has to watch it while she waits for the commercial break. In the first scene of the drama that we witness, Carl Reiner is a Nazi officer, sneering and threatening while trying to get a French girl to squeal on the Maquis. She splashes a proffered glass of wine in his face. He sputters and orders her out of the room with an oath.The following week, Reiner is some kind of gangster or something and a girl splashes wine in his face. He curses and has her thrown out. The following week, he's a jealous ex lover in a fancy restaurant and his girl throws wine in his face. "FLOOZIE!" he shouts at her as she storms out.The big wigs are sitting around with cigars watching these shows. And Doris Day asks if this isn't the same scene they've already witnessed. "Similar," says one, "but the public doesn't pay enough attention to notice the similarity." Cut to Day's house, where her two little kids are watching the show and one whines, "It's the same as last time!" There. Now you know the best joke in the movie and I've spared you the inconvenience of watching the rest of it.

Peter Zullmmann This is the first time I write a comment about a film. Considering that my favorite films, since I discovered the movies, are by Scorsese, Gonzalez Inarritu, Polanski, etc. What am I doing selecting a Doris Day comedy for my first review. Okay, let me tell you. I was overwhelmed by the sheer brilliance of the lady. I've always heard about Doris Day but I had never seen her (The Man Who Knew Too Much is my next one). She is extraordinary because in the midst of all the zaniness there is an unquestionable truth. I believed completely in her character I never thought for a moment she was trying to sell me something. I recognized her, I knew who her character was and then, of course, I laughed, loud and hard. So the reason that I've selected "The Thrill Of It All" as my first review is because that's what cinema is all about. Surprises and discoveries. Thank you Doris Day, you've given me something new to look forward to.