Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

atlasmb "To Paris With Love" fails to deliver what it ostensibly promises. First of all Paris gets only a few token frames of film, so this story could have been shot anywhere. Also, there is very little romantic love in this film.A father and son visit Paris, where each plans to search for the other's mate. The father, a widower, is a nearly prehistoric forty- two years old. This characterization is one of the film's biggest problems. The son needs some experience. Well, fortunately for them, the two female subjects fall into their laps within the first few seconds of the film.This simple--yet intriguing--storyline could have been magical in the hands of Shakespeare (or Woody Allen). Here, it's all predictable and transparent.Alec Guiness, terrific in roles like "The Bridge on the River Kwai", falls flat here. The premise that he is such an old fuddy duddy only serves to magnify the mismatching of his character with a much younger French woman. The dialogue and the plot provide few interesting moments for him or his fellow actors. When the story is over, little has happened--certainly nothing of consequence.

writers_reign On paper no one sets out to make a clinker but someone in the background got it woefully wrong in the planning stage of this one. In film terms Paris is its own reward and how hard do you have to work to make it sing. Harder by far than anyone on both sides of the camera was prepared and/or able to in this case. For reasons that don't really hold water Alec Guiness plays a gotrocks who takes his totally insipid twenty year old son to Paris. Without anything added you have a viable idea right there. On paper. In fact all concerned contrive to snatch a suet pudding from the jaws of a soufflé'. The chemistry on display between ANY two members of the cast would struggle to illuminate a Toc H lamp. The only reason I can think of for producing this is someone needed a tax write-off.

mark.waltz Colorful, sweet and tender, often lightly funny, this English romantic comedy deals with a widowed British father and his son who visit the city of lights and find a new kind of love that only Maurice Chevalier could sing about. The wonderful Alec Guennis is a perfect lady lover, quite different than the cad he played in the same year's "The Lady Killers". Vernon Gray is his much more serious son who has a more nervous reaction to romance, especially when his father begins to spend time with a much younger woman (Odile Versais) who has more in common with father than son. Gray, needing to lighten up, begins to see an older woman (Elina Labourdette) who has her hands full in loosening him up, while Sir Alec really gets his groove back.Among the funny moments are Sir Alec and Odile soaked by a street cleaner then trying to slink back into his hotel, Sir Alec caught outside the door wearing suspenders locked on the inside, and Sir Alec being caught in a tree by his finger wagging son. Sir Alec proves that it takes real talent to be funny, reminding me how certain lines he said years later while playing Hitler made me laugh because it sounded like his blind Butler from "Murder By Death" saying them. The film takes a twist near the end that comes out of nowhere, but I managed to just grin and bare it even if I didn't believe it. Even though I have no interest in traveling overseas, this at least did take me there again temporarily, just as I did a few weeks ago with the very different "Paris Blues", and as I have many times through "Funny Face", "Silk Stockings", "Gigi" and of course "An American in Paris".

malcolmgsw There are a number of British films from the 1950s about Brits going on holiday to France.most of them are shot in black and white,studio bound with average casts.However this film is different in that it is shot in colour with Alec Guiness starring and is clearly shot in Paris.One other difference the films in black and white were entertaining but this one is dreadfully dull.You get the impression that the producers were relying a bit too much in the different personality traits of the French as if France is an exotic country despite being only 21miles away.The Eastman Colour photography is very pleasant and that is about as good as it gets for this rather dull affair.