the audience applauded

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Excellent, a Must See

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Let's face it, there will never be a show like The Honeymooners with the great, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph again. Gleason plays bus driver, Ralph Kramden, and Meadows plays his long-suffering, loving, and supportive wife, Alice. Carney is the dim-witted sewer neighbor and best friend with Randolph as his loving wife, Trixie. The episodes were always excellent and it is shown annually in a marathon on New Year's Day in the New York City area. I still think the writing, the acting, the comic genius timing of the cast, and the chemistry is what made it unforgettable. While it only lasted a season or two, even then network executives did not know the brilliance and canceled it after forty episodes maybe because of Gleason or whatever. The show is a brilliant legacy of New York City television in the golden age where shows were filmed in New York City. The Honeymooners will be forever immortal with DVD collections. For those of us, my father was one of the show's biggest fans and would watch it religiously at 11:30 every night. The channel stopped showing it at that time. It was replaced repeatedly with more colorized shows but the magic was gone. The Honeymooners will live forever in the hearts and minds of us who have grown up with it and were thrilled to find the lost episodes. This show is a classic because it has transcend time. It relates to the same problems as the working class of the 1950s for the 21st century. Even in Black and White, it's still gorgeous, unforgettable, timely, classic, and just brilliant comedy.

Money! Money! Money! The accumulation of financial and social resources was the driving force behind this short lived but great comedy series.The Honeymooners was the greatest program of television's golden age, better than "I Love Lucy", "Texaco Star Theater", and "Your Show of Shows" . I've seen "I Love Lucy" reruns many times and clips of the other two great programs, and "Jackie Gleason's "Honeymooners" a spin off from his classic variety series is still my favorite.Gleason's ever popular character Ralph Kramden is one of life's lovable and colorful losers. He's always looking for that get- rich- quick scheme that will pull him as his loving wife Alice (Audrey Meadows) out of the doldrums of East Chauncey Street in Brooklyn, to the Penthouses on Park Avenue. He always means well for himself and his wife Alice, but does foolish things to make a bad situation for him and Alice worse.During all of his foolish endeavors he recruits his 'ol Pal Norton, as kind of like an insurance policy to subliminally tell Alice, "Hey I wasn't the only fool who thought he could invent No-Cal pizza." Norton (Art Carney) is one goofy dude. He has like a sixth sense when it comes to A) Keeping friendships, B)Doing inappropriate things only to remind Ralph of some of these foolish get rich quick schemes,C)Creating problems for Ralph without knowing what he's doing and D) not saying inappropriate things when the friendship itself is at stake.Among my favorite episodes when Ralph's get-rich-quick schemes nearly send him and Alice to the moon are "Funny Money", "Better Living Through TV", "Opportunity Knocks, But", "Dial J For Janitor", and the all time classic, "The $99,000 Answer" when Ralph things he's going to win a fortune on a game show. He practices learning music like a madman then falls flat on his face on National TV because he forgot to ask Norton a simple but important question relating to a music writer.There are also other classic episodes like "TV or Not TV" where Ralph is too frugal to buy Alice a television set, then goes halves with Norton, and eventually becomes obsessed with television. Norton is hilarious during his "Captain Video" monologue.In "Oh, My Aching Back", Ralph throws his back out bowling, and has to hide the sad fact from Alice that he might fail his employment physical because of it. Hiding Ralph's painful condition from Alice, Norton plays doctor and takes Ralph's temperature. "What's my temperature NORTON!!" exclaims Ralph. "A Hundred and Eleven!!" cries out Norton, not aware that if you put a cigarette lighter to the thermometer it raises the temperature.In "Please Leave the Premisis", Ralph decides to play hardball with a greedy landlord, and winds up out in the cold. Ralph says he's being brave and defiant like General George Washington, and that there "will be no deserters is his army",meaning he, Alice and Norton have to remain in the cold without utilities. Unfortunately General Cornwallis wins this round over George Washington, and Martha convinces George to pay the rent increase.Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, Art Carney, and Joyce Randolph (as Norton's wife) had great chemistry together, as Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden really took us to the moon.

I would have to rank The Honeymooners as one of the best comedy series' of all time. The show was hillarious, especially when Ralph and Norton would fight, or Alice and Ralph would fight. I loved when Norton got Ralph so mad that he'd throw him out. Alice and Ralph also got into some heated arguments where Ralph would always give her a "to the moon Alice," or "bang-zoom." In the end however, he would always give in and say, "baby you're the greatest."Another great thing about the show was it was pure comedy; no sex, no violence, just pure comedy. Unlike any of the commedy shows on today. Jackie really knew how to act; I can't believe he never won an emmy. The rest of the cast (Carney, Meadows, and Randolph) were also great in there roles. I also liked the woman who played Alice's Mother. (I don't know her name; she was uncreditted, as many of the supporting actors on the show were.)As for my favorite episodes, I loved the one called "TV or Not TV," where Ralph and Ed chipped in for a TV. My other favorites include "Funny Money," and the "Bensonhearst Bomber." In this one, Norton gets Ralph into a fight with a big bully and thinks of a scheme to get him out of it. I had other favorites too, but these are too numerous to mention. The Honeymooners, after fifty years, can never be beat. It remains the best of the best.P.S. - I even named my dog Kramden!

I Love The Honeymooners Its So Funny I Love When Norton & Ralph Fight & When Ralph Yells At Alice It So Funny It Makes Me Laugh So Hard.I Wish TV Land Would Put The Honeymooners On Earlier So I Can Watch It.From Kirsten