Boeing, Boeing
Boeing, Boeing
NR | 22 December 1965 (USA)
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Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working schedule, they will be able to be home every second day instead. Bernard's carefully structured life is breaking apart

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Flyerplesys

Perfectly adorable

Spoonatects

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Grimossfer

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

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Catherina

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

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Karl Ericsson

In Swedish the names for those Disney chipmunks are "Piff" and "Puff". That happens to rime with "Fluff" and I'd like that as a summary for this film.Well, all comedies are "fluff", more or less. A comedy always leans on society as it is with no ambition of changing anything of it. The farce or impertinence of, say, Laurel and Hardy, is quite different. These guys made fun of whole constitutions and they were never better than when Hardy had a high position in society and Laurel comes and spoils it all. Also their destructiveness as in Tit for Tat or Big Business has a certain edge to it and we never walk away from a Laurel and Hardy film with more respect for society and instead always with less. In fact, when you look at those two as on insults to society, then you start to grasp their "comedy", which is just the opposite of usual comedy.This film is a usual comedy. This film is fluff with piff and puff. Still, for Tony Curtis sake, it is still watchable. He plays it for what it is worth with a shrug like "OK, I was bought and I'm just a slave like all you others".

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dunmore_ego

A sex-comedy with no sex and very little comedy.Tony Curtis is an American philandering bachelor living in France, who keeps three airline stewardesses on a string, each thinking they are his fiancé. With their worldwide flying schedules, they are never in town at the same time, so through the simple practice of changing their mantle pictures and their underwear drawer, he keeps these simpletons believing that each is "the one and only." Until Boeing introduces its faster jets, totally screwing his screwing schedule.Jerry Lewis is Curtis's friend who discovers his secret and plays along, helping Curtis keep the three bims separated. Curtis's housekeeper, grouchy Thelma Ritter (old as a redwood and twice as gnarly), is in cahoots with him - disapprovingly, mind you - providing those snare-hit punchlines for the blondies carouseling through the apartment.Yes, this is one of those farces where people speak fast and loud to desperately create comedic situations. But comedy is culled from real-life situations gone awry, and when characters don't in the least behave "realistically," the harder it gets to cull the comedy. The less realistically the characters react to their increasingly-ridiculous situations, the less comedy, the more "forced" the farce.And after all the skulking around, we discover that each girl has a separate bedroom anyway! They aren't even sleeping with him! So after the movie pumps itself with sexual innuendo, telling us this guy is so amoral, we find out these shallow skanks are not even sleeping with him in what is supposedly "their" home.And one of the girls - after spending five minutes in a cab with Jerry Lewis - falls for him. Some kinda fiancé! And the big reveal - between all three girls finding each other in the same room, with Curtis and Lewis stuttering their way through explanations - is ridiculously infuriating.Actually, Jerry Lewis does a great job as a semi-straight man. If you completely suspend your disbelief (which is impossible), there are a few mild laughs to be had. But on the whole, the social mores of 1965 really put a damper on this supposed comedy in this age of pop star supersluts who dress and behave like whores.

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Petri Pelkonen

Boeing Boeing is a great 1960's comedy about a reporter called Bernard Lawrence, played by Tony Curtis, who has three fiancees. They all are air hostesses, one is working for Luftansa, one for Air France and one for British United.Bernard has to keep looking the air schedules very often, that the ladies won't be at Bernard's Paris apartment at the same time.Bernard has a little helper in the house called Bertha (Thelma Ritter), so Bernard's doesn't have to do all the work.But everything starts going wrong when Bernard's reporter buddy Robert Reed ,played by the great Jerry Lewis, comes to stay at Bernard's place.And everything goes even worse when the air schedules change. Bernard's perfect plan starts to fail. It is very funny to watch Bernard and Robert try to hide the ladies from each others.Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis are great comedy actors and they do a great acting job in this 1965 comedy called Boeing Boeing.

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Sarah-95

In my mind Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis are two of the best actors of that era, and they both bring to this film a star quality, which I don't think the film could do without. Jerry Lewis proving himself to actually be a good actor without having to resort to over the top slapstick. And I really don't think I need to say anything about the greatness that Tony brings.The plot though kind of cute isn't all that, and I suppose nowadays is considered to be quite politically incorrect. However the plot is secondary to the interactions between the two main characters and the housekeeper which is really what the film is about.I used to watch this film on a very regular basis, and I would encourage everyone else to do the same!

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