MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

arfdawg-1 The Plot.Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Andrew "Andy" Hardy met his sweetheart Kay Wilson in college, but has since served in the military and is now being discharged. Getting back to Kay may be the hardest thing of them all to accomplish. He arrives in town alright, but things start to go awry from there. Question is, will he succeed?DISCLAIMER: I never like the Andy Hardy series.First of all Andy's mother and father look like they are 80 years old a piece and Andy is supposed to be right out of the army -- so 20? 22 at most?now there's a miracle.The movie supposedly had a budget of a million bucks. I thought that was a lot but its about 13 million today so I suppose this was a low budget picture.The movie is rather bland and lifeless.

JohnHowardReid Let me say at once that any movie featuring Dorothy Ford is a good movie. This said, however, "Love Laughs…" is otherwise a waste of time. Mickey Rooney sleepwalks through a lot of boringly familiar routines and the direction by a gent named Willis Goldbeck can only be described as stodgy, clumsy and even deliberately flat-footed. Atrociously photographed by Robert Planck, Lewis Stone doesn't look the least bit like Andy's father – or even his grandfather. His great grandfather, yes – and with corny dialogue to fit. Director Goldbeck's decision to use lots of close-ups whenever Stone is in the camera's sights can only be described as a cardinal error. I'm not at all comfortable seeing a fine actor struggling to read a lot of dopey, inconsequential lines off an idiot board. Aside from this error – and it's a cardinal one – the movie serves up familiar routines with a certain amount of dash – and even expense. As I said at the start, it's a must-have for Dorothy Ford fans and it's available on a very good Mill Creek DVD.

tavm In the previous series entry, Andy Hardy was attending Wainwright College-his father's alma mater-and was falling for a woman named Kay Wilson (Bonita Granville). That was two years before this one. Since then, it's revealed that Andy got drafted and is revealed at the beginning he's coming home. This was probably put in to capitalize on the fact that Mickey Rooney had indeed joined the military between both pictures. Anyway, he wants to go back to Wainwright right away-mainly so he can propose to Kay-but first he meets a pretty Latin beauty named Isobel Gonzalas (Lina Romay) who sings and dances for the family's enjoyment. Oh, and the sponsor is Mr. Benedict (the return of Addison Richards) who mentions daughter Polly as she doesn't appear here. When Andy goes back to school, he and Kay have a nice reunion but soon she has to go home for a while so at the dance there, Andy ends up on a date with a Coffy Smith (Dorothy Ford) who is revealed to be real tall as Andy is real short resulting in an initially awkward jitterbug dance between them but it works out at the end of that! There's more but I'll just now say this was both touching and funny with another fine "man to man" talk between Andy and his father. So on that note, I recommend Love Laughs at Andy Hardy. P.S. This turned out to be Lewis Stone's final one as Judge Hardy. After appearing in a few more movies, he was confronted by some teen toughs at his garden and when he tried to chase them away, his heart gave out causing him to die on September 12, 1953.

bkoganbing After spending time in the service after National Velvet, Mickey Rooney returned to MGM hoping to resume his pre-war career. Like his real life counterpart, Rooney's most well known character Andy Hardy also did some time in the army during World War II. Andy had dropped out of Wainwright College which also was the alma mater of his dad, Lewis Stone and enlisted in the army. Love Laughs At Andy Hardy marked his return to peacetime America as it did for millions of others.Then why for heaven's sake didn't MGM let him grow up a bit? After time in the service during war, you would think that Andy would have matured a bit. Still now as a veteran he goes right back to the same callow youth that we knew before Pearl Harbor. So a beloved series ended because millions of veterans just could not swallow an Andy Hardy who had not changed. Rooney is having his usual female trouble. He met a girl in college played by Bonita Granville before the war whom he hoped would wait for him, but she didn't even send a 'dear john' letter to him. Mickey also met Lina Romay visiting Carvel from South America. This was one time where MGM took deliberate advantage of Mickey's well known vertical challenge. Being dateless he allows himself at one point to be set up with 6'2" Dorothy Ford and they do look ridiculous together. The best part of the film is seeing Rooney trying to dance with Ford. I've seen Ford in a few other films and she nearly comes up in height to such tall stars as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and John Wayne. You might remember her best as the giant's wife with Abbott&Costello in Jack And The Beanstalk.Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, and Sara Haden all repeat their roles from previous Hardy films. Cecilia Parker as Andy's older sister is absent, presumably she's sprung from the nest, no explanation is given in the film.This was not the last Andy Hardy film however. Over a decade later, Rooney returned to MGM as Andy Hardy now married to Patricia Breslin and the father of two kids and he's moving back to Carvel. After that there were no more visits to Carvel from MGM.Who knows the series might have kept going if MGM had let Andy grow up. As it is what was cute before was ludicrous now.