Barefoot in the Park Reviews

Jane Fonda really intrigues me as an actress. She's so obnoxious and noisy and loud and annoying it's no wonder Robert Redford couldn't tolerate her towards the end. But he eventually returns, drunk and barefoot in the park, because there's something truly compelling about her ... I wouldn't call it charm, more like spunk. This is a surprisingly vulgar movie, what with the time period and genre, and really gives you a picture of what it was like to live in the 1960s, slightly exaggerated of course.

Some movies are so cute you giggle. I guffawed.

An excellent comedy with an excellent cast and an excellent story. The story is actually more like a story for a drama, but all the funny things that happen make it a comedy, it's brilliant. This movie is fun, I really like it.

A subtle comedy with pleasing watchability. Easy viewing and entertaining with a great quirkyness.

Well I rather watch stupid stoner comedies than watching this kind of romantic comedies

"barefoot in the park" is one of the wittiest comedies tackling the complementariness of genders, as jack nicholson remarks in "as good as it gets": a woman is a man devoid of reasonability and self-constraint, if you wanna comprehend how woman functions, just to shed off reason and discipline. it's probably the most sarcastic criticism on woman. ha. in the case of "barefoot in the park", this couple have the discord that fonda wanna walk barefoot in the park, but redford refuses becuz it's freezing cold in the squad that is utterly reasonable, no doubt about it.

fonda's corie is a wild goose with naive opitimistism, that kind of person who would say "tomorrow is another day" with giggles..redford's paul is a properly conducted lawyer who believes in common sense and emotional maturity. and their bond is due to widely acknowledged "opposite attraction"..while corie's being adventrously whimsical, paul frowns in tranquill disapproval. their disgreement detonates when it comes to hooking corie's mother(mildred natwick) a blind date with the elderly bohemian wacko upstairs, who dines in various bizarrely exotic nauseatic cushine.

it's the script of humorous dialogues that accomplishes the charm of this flick, and there're lots of facetious jokes. such as the laboriously climbing to their overcharged apartment with no bath tube and the loothole on the ceiling as well as a bunch of wacky neighbours. you gotta read between the lines to chew over this mildly suave sense of ridicules which belongs totally to the league of feminine-ness and only comprehended by man who has a irresonable spouse like that in the household.

as for the concrete ideas of gender sphere in this flick, paul stands for the absolute reason; corie is the spontaneous romanticist. she demeans him as stuffed shirt, and he bombards her for the lack of rational sensibility. then corie cracks up for divorce, heart-broken paul runs amok. eventually they concede part of themselves as symmetry: distressed paul finally gets drunk then walks barefoot in the park; corie someway accepts mother's advice to give up a little bit of herself to take care of paul in their tiny shell to make him feel important.

another parallel is the friendship of natwick as corie's mother and charles boyer as the quirky neighbor. one uptight conservative woman neutralizes herself with some unpredicatibility from another free-spirited man who also yields to behave himself in norm.

reason and emotion should be appropriately counteracted with the solace of love and mutual concession that is the central wisdom of this play.

Personally, I think Neil Simon's other works are better. I just don't feel a chemistry between Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.

Another pleasant rom com typical of Neil Simon, but with a couple as appealing as Redford and Fonda, it couldn't really go wrong.

A really funny movie that seems far ahead of its time. I would have rated it higher except that it had a perfect stopping point but kept on going. A classic.

Very dated in a lot of it's issues but still good.

Quirky comedy meets romantic drama. Very 60's, very Jane Fonda, but Redford is absolutely gorgeous. Only Mickey Rooney can spoil it.

Did not care for this at all. Jane Fonda overacting bigtime was annoying. And the story/forced drama felt way too rushed. Trying to remember if I enjoyed reading the play in college.

I get a kick out of this movie! Jane Fonda's character is so far from my personality it is interesting to watch her in action. Robert Redford is lookin' good here and balances out Fonda's craziness.

A bit too cutesy for my taste, but it does have some very enjoyable moments. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford are adequate in their roles, Charles Boyer and Mildred Natwick however are great and steal every scene they are in.

Robert Redford and Jane Fonda play newlyweds in their first apartment. He is the strait-laced husband, while she is the kooky and free-spirited wife; think 1960s version of the TV show "Dharma and Greg" and you have the general idea.

Neil Simon's dialogue is as snappy as ever in this film adaptation of his play. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda both are well suited to it, and manage to create characters who are fascinating to watch interact, in all their idiosyncrasies and unexpected connection to each other. By the end, as everything comes to a head, we do want to see these two smooth out their rough past. Although this is not a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination -- some plot points seem awkward and unnecessary -- there are some near-perfect moments, such as when Redford first gets a glimpse of the home which they are to share. He goes around discovering everything that is wrong with it, despite Fonda's attempt to put a good face on it. Definitely worth watching once.

Kind of a lighthearted look at a couple of newlyweds trying to forge a path into married life in the face of some serious issues... like immaturity and being a "stuffed shirt." The outcome seems unlikely, and I don't know if I really like the approach to the issue either, but it was okay I guess.

I don't remember any specifics other than just liking this movie. Very much a filmed version of the play, the cast and script are likable enough to keep it moving. Great if you're nostalgic for a 60's view of New York.

SO hilarious. totally had me and my sis' rolling on the ground laughing and Robert Redford totally reminds me of Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith

One of my favorites of all time. Both were at theis absolute prime in this more and the supporting actors were phenominal.