Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Steineded How sad is this?

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

hannahbrewer This is a great comedy starring Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray. Murray plays a cook patient of Dreyfuss and the entire film is them going at each other. This is a great early 90s film- rather telling of its time. The film stock, the locations and clothing is dripping with nostalgia. Bill Murray is excellent and Dreyfuss more than holds his own. If you like comedies then this film will appeal to you. Great family entertainment.

atlasmb Bob (Bill Murray) is a lovable, narcissistic, neurotic whose neediness intrudes on the family vacation of his therapist, Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss). Other people seem to get along with Bob, but Dr. Marvin finds Bob to be a distraction and an annoyance to his usually well-organized life.The entire cast is wonderful. And Julie Hagerty, who plays Leo's wife Fay, is perfect as the soft-spoken spouse who only sees the good in Bob.The script is very well written. It offers moments of hilarity and moments that touch the heart. It also does a great job of balancing the emotional paths of Bob and Leo throughout the film.This film and "Groundhog Day" make Murray one of the best comedic actors of his time.

John Brooks 'What About Bob' is one of those early 90's comedies that had a point but made an effort to feel genuine. Comedies nowadays in the 2010's feel so distant and over-produced, and formulaic, it's very refreshing to watch one of those older generation flicks every once in a while.There's much...much to be done in what the film means to achieve, in so little time, just under 1hr40min. It's pretty remarkable they managed to squeeze in about enough that the film and ending in particular don't feel completely rushed to the point of reaching random levels.It's very good with some details, for e.g. how annoying and realistically annoying they made Bill Murray (I want, I need I need I need !) and the sense of pure antipathy established in the very first seconds the two protagonists meet. Dreyfuss certainly does well and anyone would remember his facial expression of pure disgust for another person, but perhaps it would've been desirable he would completely leave a rather conventional acting style, however fine, and gone totally headfirst deep into the role.It's a pretty good comedy. Again, it's really fairly ambitious. It's no masterpiece, but it's very memorable, it's fun, and it's got a very interesting moral to it too.7.5/10.

calvinnme In fact, it is such light entertainment it is one of the few films that mental hospitals will let their patients watch! And no, I don't know this because I was an inmate.It's the story of two men - Bob and Dr.Leo Marvin. Bob is a man so tied up in his obsessive compulsions he can barely move. Thus he works at home in NYC and lives a simple life. However, he does see the value of therapy and apparently has been through a number of psychiatrists, all of whom he pesters to the point that they pass him off to someone else and leave town.The latest doctor to be duped into taking Bob (Bill Murray) as a patient is Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss). He has precisely one session with Bob, gives him a copy of his latest book - "Baby Steps", and tells him he will see him next month because he is going on vacation. This sends Bob into a panic because the one constant in his life has been his tenacious hold on his series of psychiatrists. Bob's decision - he will "baby step" his way to New Hampshire and go on vacation where Dr. Marvin is.Now you see, Bob is actually quite likable to anybody who is NOT a psychiatrist, and he quickly bonds to Dr. Marvin's family and even helps the Marvins' son with some of his hang-ups in a way that Leo has never been able to do. You also have to realize that, like Bob, Leo is a guy with a lot of rigid rules about everything himself. In many ways he is as hung up as Bob is, but in socially acceptable ways. The result is that Bob violating all of Dr. Marvin's rules slowly drives Dr. Marvin nuts, while basically adopting Dr. Marvin's family makes Bob much better.I'll let you watch and see how this all turns out. Let me just say that this is not One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - it is a comedy for the entire family and a very good one at that. A ten year old could watch it and not be stressed. Kids much younger than that could watch it, but they just might not get it. Highly recommended.