Fresh and Exciting

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

College boy wants to study -- seriously, *wants to study*; college girl wants constant nookie and believes 'no' never means 'no' if it's a boy saying it. The director casts a Margaret Keane painting 'big-eyed waif' as the girl, and 'Charlie Brown' in the flesh as the boy. All drenched in a treacly folk music score following suit with the cloying easy-listener 'Come Saturday Morning' and its dopey contrived 'poetical' lyric rolling over the titles.Saw this as a teen late in its original release (1970), and again last night (4 June 2017). Same throw-up-in-the-mouth-a-little reaction.And did I tell you I love Liza Minnelli? Really. But phenomena like her need careful placement, as 'Cabaret' proves.Poor novice actor Wendell Burton as the boy gets no help from anybody here -- so just keeps playing the same awkward introvert boy-playing-hard-to-get thing over and over. Liza acts up a storm. Not in the same movie these two. Everybody else is a cardboard cut-out. Nice gratuitous ugly homophobic slurs from Liza re her love object's drunk jock roommate.But I give it a ten because -- well -- actors trapped in a project not serving them well get my undying sympathy. It has achieved cult status, so this old curmudgeon's opinion can't hurt it.

Seen this little movie with my first love as a teenager. Always brings back sweet memories of the summer of 69. Beautiful song from the Sandpipers. Come Saturday morning. Think they really nailed the first love theme. Lisa was so good as poor Pookie Adams. Always brings a smile looking back at those good old days of young lovers. Would love for the kids today to watch the movie and feel the passion and feelings of your first love and the heartache that always follows. No violence cursing bad language. Would love to get the feedback from the young esters today. One thing that has never changed loneliness will take its toll on us. Also good things never die and stay in our hearts and memories forever. But we will remember long after Saturday's gone

Liza Minnelli received a well deserved Oscar nomination here as best actress as Pookie Adams. Emotionally detached and socially awkward, Minnelli etched a memorable performance as the young girl reduced to saying anything to garner attention in her long pursuit to be accepted and loved.Co-star and future director, Wendell Burton, is just wonderful as the shy boyfriend who comes to love the way out Kookie.This is truly a wonderful story of maturity gained through love. It would only take an outstanding performance by Maggie Smith in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" to beat out Minnelli as well as Jane Fonda's tragic Gloria in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"Pookie's early scenes as a real lovable nut job are so realistic. Her acting depth is well realized here as she emotionally matures. The ending is definitely a downer but so has been Pookie's very existence. She still has to find herself.

I was in junior high when the film crew came to town. They actually shot in the next town down the road and a few other communities in the area. When I saw the film, I was too busy looking at the locations, matching them up with my knowledge of local geography. The VW in the film belonged to the older brother of a classmate. All the kids were buzzing about the romantic scene shot in the Vernon Center Cemetery. My classmate, Gene, used to mow the grass. Years later, well after the film was shot, I went drinking in the bar, The Golden Horseshoe, where some scenes were filmed. Someday I must rent the DVD to actually watch the film for something more than just the locations.