Once Upon a Honeymoon

1942 "Gee it's great to be together at last on another fellows honeymoon!"
6.4| 1h57m| NR| en
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A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

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Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
maholm I found this film very,very disturbing. I did not see the humor at all, nor the naivety or the selfishness of privilege. The Baron's fat ass bending over...the references to the fall of countries. The repartee between Grant and the Captain playing Bridge. The photographer and the Baroness speaking in dialects and her benign reaction to his death. I thought I would loose my mind watching this. WTF!!! Now I know that today's world is no weirder than 50 years ago. God have mercy on us.
Alana Fu There are good war comedies, and this is not one of them. This is a very ambitious film, touching a lot of subjects:war, crime, love, comedy, humanity etc, however not proficient at any of them. And since some of these are very sensitive subjects, if you want people to laugh at them, you gotta make the "punchlines" extra strong. And this film just failed to do that. Some scenes stand out in terms of "comedy", Cary Grant was specially cute in a few of them. Although I like how natural the lines are(sometimes I even wonder if they were just improvising?), the pace of the movie is way too slow and too long. Neither the theme or scenes are cohesive, most of them are pretty awkward actually, is it a matter of laugh or grief? You just don't know what to feel about them. If you are a big fan of Cary Grant then I guess you would enjoy this movie, not very exciting for a Rogers' fan tho.
richard-1787 This is one of the most unpleasantly bad movies I have ever seen, and I don't understand why. The director, Leo McCarey, made all sorts of wonderful movies. Ditto Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers, both fine actors. But everything is wrong with this movie, starting with the truly awful script. Yes, you could make a comedy about the Nazis during the war; remember the wonderful Jack Benny/Carol Lombard "To be or not to be." But this movie doesn't come close to that one. It doesn't take serious things that have to be taken seriously, even in a comedy. That leaves the main characters, especially Rogers, reacting in very bizarre ways to very serious situations. The only performance that makes sense to me in this picture is Walter Slezak's as the Nazi undercover agent. As for the rest, I don't understand what the script was trying to do, and I don't understand why McCarey was having his two lead actors act as he evidently made them do. This movie comes off as mindless and superficial, nothing like the great work I have see all three of its principals do elsewhere. I don't understand what this movie was trying to achieve in 1942, but it made me feel uncomfortable throughout.
jarrodmcdonald-1 I am going to join the ranks of those who like and appreciate this film. First, it's a different sort of film. It's not exactly geared for the common masses. Even though Ginger Rogers' character has a lower-class background, the look and feel of the film is sophisticated...that is the direction this film effort goes toward and that is the direction it maintains. The scene where Ms. Rogers and the undercover agent try on regional American accents is the high point of the film. There was a message behind that scene which says America is all these kinds of people-- the mixed heterogeneous identity of America is a reality to uphold and preserve. At one point, the film does veer from comedy to drama (the Jewish citizens flee with a phony passport). Who says a film can't change tone? It gives us a unique glimpse at the main characters when they are considered to be Jewish for awhile.