Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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

George Wright This movie features Walter Matthau in three separate roles but the real stars are the women he performs with: Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris and Lee Grant. In each case, we see them in the roles of wife, girlfriend and mother. Maureen Stapleton's role was sad and the other two--Harris and Grant-- are comical. I found the roles of these women were more interesting and the acting more convincing than Walter Matthau. I am a fan of Walter Matthau but in this film he gives a lacklustre performance with limited material in the first story and overblown performances in the other two. Matthau is usually a very funny guy with great lines and superb delivery but the humour just isn't there and the lines fall flat. All three stories deal with marriage and relationships at various stages of life. The common thread is that they take place in the same suite at New York City's Plaza Hotel, a Neil Simon touch.

HEFILM Unfunny endlessly stagy repetitive non joke dialog, probably career low performance by Maureen Stapleton in the first episode. Muddy photography and no music make this seem about as deadly as most of it is. Flatly directed by Arthur Hiller it's like a badly blocked stage show only with worse lighting and non chemistry between the leads, not that the characters are funny or likable. A near total loss, only the final story manages some laughs or generates any chemistry. It's more build around a situation comedy than bad dialog and Lee Grant and Matthau generate chemistry and show off comic timing. In the first two episodes Walter can't buy a laugh, a rare bad day for him.Only opening up of the play involves some airborne shots of NYC and bridges in spots where you don't need them. Story ends goes outside then comes back in for silent curtain calls.This is really a bad film from what mostly seems like sub par material. Hiller shows almost no imagination and with a talented cast like this he has to be blamed for the performances. And Simon at this point in his career wasn't this bad but really shows no knowledge of how to make his material work on film. My rating is all for the last episode, skip to it if you can.

kyle_furr Not very funny or interesting. All three of the skits are pretty boring. I could hardly keep myself awake during the second one, I only watched the third one because i heard it was the best of the three, It was just as bad as the first two. Walter Matthau is a fine actor but not in here.

salciuco@inwind.it Neil Simon possess a gift, he succeeded to dig in the human relationship and go out all the negative the fears, the wrongs and the frustration with the laughter and the funny but all of this whole of blue. It's Blue because his characters are aware to own wrong but at the same time are condemned and all things that they do is useless and worst because this is their nature. The flick narrate 3 tales acclimatized in a Plaza Suite, all the action is concentrated in this room and so all the goodness is addressed on the leading players a wonderful Matthau that play all of 3 characters for the stories. In the first a wife discovered the betrayal of the husband in their 23rd anniversary, in the second a famous Hollywood producer try to seduce one his ex-girlfriend to youngness years, now happiness married, and in the end the problem of a surly couple in the wedding-day of the un-security daughter. Many laughter but each of these with the better retro-taste and melancholy, the three characters compared themselves with own wrong, deny its, scream, fighting but continued in the same wrong. In the end all the things going as must going to damage of the their actions but in every end solutions there is something to good tuck known take you. Wonderful actor trial for Walter Matthau, the cinema world had lost many in his dead, he is a complete actor able to through the mimic facial a express many feelings and players each kind of flick. My rate is 8.