Dreadfully Boring

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT is very much a typical Doris Day comedy and okay if you're into that particular genre. Once again Day teams up with the great and laconic Rod Taylor (after their successful pairing in PILLOW TALK) for a spy-flavoured comedy in which a budding romance between the stars is complicated by the revelation that Day may or may not be a Russian spy. The story feels plodding at times with the comedy dated more often than not, but it picks up in the second half for a good party set-piece and a string of character actors tend to steal the laughs from the leads. Watch out for Robert Vaughn's cameo, the funniest part of the film for me.

Funny Doris Day vehicle made memorable with Rod Taylor as her co-star and a terrific ensemble of supporting players-Dick Martin, Dom De Luise, Eric Fleiming, Ed Andrews and Miss Alice Pearce along with Ellen Corby.This is essentially a spy caper and Doris is the prime suspect. The only one who believes her innocence is her boss and new lover, Rod Taylor.My only objection to the movie was the casting of Arthur Godfrey as her father. Godfrey belonged in the same league as Mel Gibson, and they certainly could have gotten a person to play the father role.Day is really original here as she assumes the role of a "klutzy" woman caught up in mayhem. The scenes in the kitchen of the future, on board a motorboat and others are uproarious in laughter.Sadly, the film marked the end of cancer stricken Alice Pearce, who died shortly after making the film, as well as the tragic passing of villain Eric Fleming in a drowning accident off Peru shortly after the film. This film showed the technological advances that were to come years later. They certainly used these advances to their benefit to poke fun of the society that would make them.

This is a silly farce, even a little over the top for a typical Doris Day comedy. But, there are some things worth noting. The support cast of comedians who were popular at the time is outstanding -- John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Dom DeLuise, and Dick Martin (from the extremely popular TV comedy series Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In). Eric Fleming is a surprise supporting actor; he was famous from the TV western series Rawhide, which also starred Clint Eastwood. Arthur Godfrey is also a surprise. This is the only movie I recall seeing him in, but I remember him from his popular radio and TV shows of many years before this film was made. Finally, I enjoy the nostalgia provided by hilarious references to the space race, space age automation, and Cold War spies. Doris Day plays her typical beautiful madcap woman who, of course, falls in love and gets married at the end of the film. I will watch it again, in spite of the crazy slapstick antics and ridiculous script.

It's NOT! Instead this badly edited, terribly scored, loosely plotted dreck is only of value as a mindless mid-60's time-capsule w/ a large roster of recognizable TV-land faces in supporting roles: there's gay Uncle Arthur from "Bewitched" as a nosy, gay NASA security guard who dresses in drag to follow Ms. Day into a women's restroom; also from "Bewitched" there's Gladys and "Abner, come quickly!" as nosy neighbors (DUH!) of Ms. Day (I was half-expecting Endora to show up floating); there's a cameo from "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."; there's not-terribly-suave Martin (one half of "Martin and Rowan's Laugh-In) as a secondary love interest for Day, and he has a truly dead-on silly line when mistakenly caught in bed w/ an Air Force General "You want to meet early and pick out the furniture?"; there's even Godfrey as Day's father (more like slightly-older brother as Day and him are close in age); and there's even Grandma Walton as a senior citizen Girl Friday battling a wayward robot vacuum cleaner!The slightly better acted supporting roles belong to DeLuise as a bumbling pseudo-foreign agent who has some silly funny scenes w/ Day (the early foot caught in waste basket scene and the latter water gun scene); and Taylor as a stud-scientist who battles and romances Day in the workplace. Speaking of workplace, Ms. Day works at NASA which happens to be based in Cape Kennedy, Florida, but yet she commutes (by car no less!) to a home in Los Angeles, California!!!!! This implausibility results in unintended laughs when after a long day at work in Florida Ms. Day makes plans to boat over to Catalina. BTW: is there any simple task that Day can take on that doesn't turn into disaster? It's not that she plays dumb-blonde, but that her character is accident-prone (ie.- the heel caught in the grate, the Banana Crème pie fiasco, the unpiloted speed boats debacles, the fish hook/mermaid suit accident, the pie baking kitchen scene, etc.) and even worse she's middle-age but playing a role twenty years younger!There's one unintended telling moment in the movie (towards the very end) when terribly under-used actor McGiver (who if you blinked earlier on you would have missed his earlier scene) reappears in the middle of chaos (DUH!) and asks the other actors "What's going on?" Truly telling commentary on this fiasco of a movie.