William Powell and Irene Dunne with Elizabeth Taylor and some other people. On the up side, lots of practical family issues are dealt with through character development, and this is where the fun lies.
Powell is the patriarch of an all-red-headed WASP family. He is a pain-in-the-butt overbearing dictator but otherwise lovable husband/father. Every time he turns around he whines about something, never content. This is used for humor, but it goes way overboard.
There are scenes of all his kids (and perhaps also his wife) sitting down on one long bench, all lined up nicely, and facing him. "Father" stands across the room and glares at them. This image reminded me of a bunch of rubber ducks lined up in a carnival shooting gallery.
Ughh. Quite a chore to get through. I dare you to watch this movie for more than 10 consecutive minutes at a time. Really! It is two hours in length, and seems to get good maybe about 3/4 of the way through.
Powell's "Father" character says he will get baptized to save a situation, but later isn't interested. Will he get baptized by the end of the movie? Will he ever stop nitpicking everyone in his home? Will he ever tell his wife he loves her?? What is the latest maid's name, and what happened to the one that was working for them just yesterday? Did her uniform not fit, just like the maid that quit the day before that?? What formalities and drama. And it is in Technicolor too, probably so you can see that they all have red hair. Woo-hoo. I am a fan of B&W, so B&W with lots of shadows and eerie overtones might have been better though I think.
I am giving it a 6/10 for all the attention to commotion and nonsense. Sort of like Grand Hotel in a way but not really. :) Film it in B&W and I would have given it a 7/10. Yes, the color does detract from it for me. I thought it was going to be a B&W feature like the picture you see here on IMDb. :)
Powell is the patriarch of an all-red-headed WASP family. He is a pain-in-the-butt overbearing dictator but otherwise lovable husband/father. Every time he turns around he whines about something, never content. This is used for humor, but it goes way overboard.
There are scenes of all his kids (and perhaps also his wife) sitting down on one long bench, all lined up nicely, and facing him. "Father" stands across the room and glares at them. This image reminded me of a bunch of rubber ducks lined up in a carnival shooting gallery.
Ughh. Quite a chore to get through. I dare you to watch this movie for more than 10 consecutive minutes at a time. Really! It is two hours in length, and seems to get good maybe about 3/4 of the way through.
Powell's "Father" character says he will get baptized to save a situation, but later isn't interested. Will he get baptized by the end of the movie? Will he ever stop nitpicking everyone in his home? Will he ever tell his wife he loves her?? What is the latest maid's name, and what happened to the one that was working for them just yesterday? Did her uniform not fit, just like the maid that quit the day before that?? What formalities and drama. And it is in Technicolor too, probably so you can see that they all have red hair. Woo-hoo. I am a fan of B&W, so B&W with lots of shadows and eerie overtones might have been better though I think.
I am giving it a 6/10 for all the attention to commotion and nonsense. Sort of like Grand Hotel in a way but not really. :) Film it in B&W and I would have given it a 7/10. Yes, the color does detract from it for me. I thought it was going to be a B&W feature like the picture you see here on IMDb. :)