Steineded How sad is this?

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

JasparLamarCrabb After THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY, this is Jerry Lewis's best film. Like DD, WMTS is directed by the great Frank Tashlin. The sight gags are hysterical, highlighted by a very funny fight between Lewis and a very aggressive vacuum cleaner. Nancy Kulp, herself a sight gag, is pretty amusing as a great white hunter. Lewis gets a terrific foil in shrewish department store owner Agnes Moorehead. Although Jill St. John is a bit harder to take as her daughter. She's insistent on being with Jerry and that's tough to digest. Lewis usually kept his leading ladies to the Ina Balin type...semi-ingenues who would believably be smitten with him. Nevertheless, the movie is terrific with the now famous typewriter gag.

j-fishwheel Not my Favorite J.L. Film, (that would be Errand Boy), but delightful, nonetheless. Great physical comedy and some lightweight satire ("a man has to be king of his own ranch style tract home").The woman who played Jane Hathaway in Beverly Hillbillies makes a cameo appearance as a Big Game Hunter looking for a new rifle in the Sporting Dept., where Jerry's Character is working the counter. The usual slapstick devices come into play such as the golf bag sch tick (you know, the one), the golf ball going out the window...making, let's just say..multiple bounces along its journey, and of course. The exercise bicycles on the mattress, and ensuing endurance jog make my side hurt with laughter. Home sick from work or school, either from a cold or the bad ironic humor that pervades your weekdays? This is your film. If you don't like Jerry, you have no soul.

grendelkhan This is one of my favorite Jerry Lewis films. The plot isn't intricate and there are no musical numbers; just sheer lunacy and a great cast.This time out, Jerry is a young man in love; with an heiress. The only thing is, he doesn't know she's an heiress. Jill St. John is the love interest and undercover heiress. She is secretly working in her mother's department store, where her father is the figurehead president. Got all of that? Oh, I almost forgot. The mother, played by Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane and Bewitched), knows about her daughter's romance and wants it squashed. She sets a plan in motion to disrupt the couple, a plan involving Jerry's hiring at her department store.The film is filled with little episodes of slapstick and sightgags galore. As Jerry moves from department to department, chaos ensues. It's a wonder that the store is still standing by the end! What really makes the film work are the wonderful character actors who populate the screen. John McGivers plays the hapless father, Ray Walston is the scheming manager. There are cameos by such TV favorites as Richard Deacon (Leave it to Beaver & The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Nancy Kulp (The Beverly Hillbillies).Although it's not the greatest comedy ever made, it is a lot of fun. It's basically a live-action cartoon; not surprising, as the director is former Warner Brothers cartoon director, Frank Tashlin. Tashlin knows how to pace a film like this, building gag after gag, until the final eruption of laughter.This is definitely one of Jerry's more entertaining films, perfect for a quiet afternoon or evening.

rcraig62 Who's Minding The Store was once a favorite movie of mine as a kid. Then I grew up and renounced Jerry and all his works. But AMC was recently running a mini-Jerry Lewis festival and this film was in it, so I couldn't resist taking a look back and I have to say this one holds up surprisingly well. Jerry plays the eternal bumbling idiot who's in love with an heiress to a department store fortune. One problem though, her mother is aware of the romance (through the use of private detectives), doesn't approve and wants to break it up any way she can. The upshot is that Jerry is given a job at the department store doing the most impossible unpleasant tasks imaginable so that he will appear a failure in front in his new fiancee. As Jerry Lewis movies go, this one is actually pretty good for a lot of reasons. It has a big-time supporting cast, for one thing, as opposed to Jerry playing six roles by himself in various modes of stupidity. The script is funny- that is, the vignettes of Jerry moving from one disaster to another in different sections of the store. And the slapstick is well-executed without being brutal or forced. Agnes Moorehead is great as the evil would-be mother-in-law, playing a slightly more cosmpolitan version of the character she played in "Bewitched". John McGiver is very good as the cuckolded husband, Jill St. John appropriately nurturing as the girlfriend, and Ray Walston, who, to me, is nothing but a show-biz benchwarmer, is a howl as the whimpering flunky store manager who's complicit in the scheme. As for the best bits, the running gag of the hapless policeman on the blunt end of Jerry's screw-ups is well done, Nancy Kulp is absolutely hilarious in a scene as a famous big-game hunter, and at the top of the pile, Jerry does his classic typewriter bit, where he mimics the movements of a typist set to music. This is a not good, but great routine, a truly inspired bit that is worthy of being described as genius.On the negative side, I couldn't help but think that the message of the film (the man is king of his castle, etc. etc.) mostly fits Jerry's worldview that women are worth little more than sex toys and kitchen utensils. This sort of thing may have been quaint in 1963, but it's downright prehistoric now. But if you can shake off the sexism, this film has a lot of good laughs. It might even be the Citizen Kane of Jerry Lewis movies. And since Agnes Moorehead was in both pictures, I may be on to something. 2 1/2 ** out of 4, but for a Lewis picture, that's a rave.