Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

tupungato Citing Leave It To Beaver's strengths, Tony Dow has said that it was the first program of its kind to include episodes dealing with death and divorce. Though I don't doubt Tony Dow's claims about the show that continues to make him recognized, I have never considered Leave It To Beaver a daring sit-com that presents unpleasant and unsettling truths. I don't see it as the forerunner to the openly controversial comedies, such as Maude, The Jefferson's, and All In The Family. Leave It To Beaver has more in common with The Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best, and Make Room For Daddy, shows of the same era that also featured families, and made light of differences of opinion and miss-communication between husbands and wives and of the typical struggles between parents and their children, young people and their friends. Leave It To Beaver, however, does a better job than its rivals of presenting, in an entertaining way, middle-class living as many of that era had known it.Like the other popular television families of that era, the Cleavers resolve their problems promptly, Ward Cleaver disciplines reasonably -- the two boys express dread when they expect their father to holler when he comes to their bedroom to give consequences, but he never really loses control of his anger -- June Cleaver offers her opinion tactfully, and nobody behaves antisocially. The Cleavers have a functional family. They don't, however, come across as a model one. The other popular sitcoms of the 50's and early 60's either featured characters a little too refined or proper to make viewers easily forget that they are observing actors, or entertained by including buffoonery (Don Knotts, Lucille Ball, and Dick Van Dyke each engaged in the unlikely.). Leave It To Beaver, though, maintained a solid following by presenting predicaments and featuring characters that more closely resembled reality. The way the makers of Leave It To Beaver portray the most extreme of its cast may serve as the best criteria for rating the show above the others of that time. As the quintessential sycophant, Eddie Haskel keeps me laughing, but he also occasionally reveals fragility behind the phony, cocky exterior. Similarly, Lumpy usually amuses viewers by playing a common type: the insecure teen who teases and bullies his buddy's younger sibling. He puts on innocence, though, in the presence of his overbearing father. Because the audience sees other sides to Eddie and Lumpy -- Leave It To Beaver writers had the astuteness to include them - - they and the show come across as less fictional.

bkoganbing I fear that in the first decade of television too many of us still bear the scars of not having a family like the Cleavers. They were in fact the All American ideal of the Eisenhower years. All that was needed was a pet and I'm sure there were episodes in which the Beaver must have dealt with acquiring a pet.What a family they were, the hard working and wise father who always had time for his kids and their problems, the pretty mom who never looked tired after a day of housework without a thought of being anything other than wife and mother, and two model kids whose occasional problems were really trivial stuff. This kind of family was satirized so brilliantly in Pleasantville.Tony Dow as Wally the older brother got to be a teen heartthrob, one of the very first created by television. Jerry Mathers in the title role of Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver was just shy of heartthrob status when the show ended its run. They were cute, but I don't think they were the heart of the show.Two things made it stand out. One was Hugh Beaumont, a father of strength and stability who was NEVER made out to be an idiot even if he occasionally got it wrong. I think the Dads out there might have learned some parenting skills from him. Of course that presumes their kids were like Wally and the Beaver. And he certainly didn't have experience with being the father of girls. That's a whole other mindset. But you can see why Barbara Billingsley fell for this guy.I think Leave It To Beaver would have sank without a trace if it hadn't been for Ken Osmond as Wally's friend Eddie Haskell. That accomplished tongue licker of the inner rear cavities fooled absolutely no one, but it was great to see him do his act every week. It was Eddie who inevitably got Wally and their other friend Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford in trouble every week. By the way Frank Bank was perfectly cast as a character named Lumpy, a good natured goof who just went along.Beaver had several different pals along the show's run. He had one teacher through grade school though, Sue Randall as Miss Landers. Good thing she taught grade school before these kids hit their puberty. I NEVER had any grade school teachers looking like that. She was also full of wisdom and could sense problems intuitively in her class.The Cleavers, the perfect All American family for the time.

tinkerpunkbell05 I've been looking for an episode and was wondering if anyone could help me.... i'm looking for an episode where beaver makes a Mexican friend named Frankie Mendoza.. and he invites him to come over... if ya'll know anything about this please reply i'm going crazy looking for it. i just bought leave it to beaver season 1 and i should be getting it very very soon! i cant wait! I've heard nothing but good things about it and seriously can't wait to receive it in the mail.... the reason i'm looking for this episode is because my father saw it when he was younger. he saw it about a month after his brother Frankie Mendoza passed away, he was alone at home and told his mom about the show when she got home. my grandmother just thought that my dad missed his brother so much he was going crazy, and my dad just wants to prove that there was such an episode. i've googled it and searched everywhere... beginning to think that he is crazy! but anything will help thank you

Florida2 During a recent TVLand "Top 10 Characters You Love To Hate" special, a well-known (under 40) female actress was quoted as saying that she believed sneaky Eddie Haskell to be the only character in the show that she remembered for resembling "a real person".Though I'll agree that Ward and June might come across at times as being unrealistically conservative (for example, their sitting at home in their Sunday best for no reason) her comment was something I found hard to understand, since, Beaver was known to be the first show of it's kind to explore such teen issues as, alcoholism, divorce, and troubled teens.It seems that many viewers also do not understand the significance of Ward's frequent reference (often shown as his sad remembrance) to his own harsh encounters with his strict Father, who made a point of "taking him out to the woodshed" to let Ward know "just what his Father meant", and how Ward, as a Father himself, deciding that he would not do the same when teaching his own sons right from wrong.While the conservative side of the show might be a bit too much for some, in the end there is nothing wrong with that behavior either - it's a far better lifestyle than what we see in today's world, where parents sometimes see their children as a liability rather than a blessing.Those who regularly watch Beaver know that while the corn does sometimes grow high in Mayfield, the trueness of the show's stories is what makes Beaver the timeless show that many still enjoy almost a half century after it's debut.