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Kiss Me, Stupid

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

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86

Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1

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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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Dean Martin stars in this once-controversial comedy as Dino, a Las Vegas crooner, alcoholic, and celebrity playboy. Dino requires women like oxygen -- a companionless night leaves him with a headache. Ray Walston is Orville, a provincial piano teacher, aspiring songwriter, and jealous husband. Orville violently obsesses over his wife Zelda's (Felicia Farr) fidelity -- any man she encounters becomes his sworn enemy. When a chance detour brings Dino to Orville's hometown of Climax, NV, it is the

PG-13,

Romance, Classics, Comedy

Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond

Jul 15, 2003

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All Critics (22) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (6) | DVD (4)

Wilder, usually a director of considerable flair and inventiveness -- has not been able this time out to rise above a basically vulgar, as well as creatively delinquent, screenplay...

August 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety
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Characteristically cynical, clever and brash, it's helped out enormously by the performances of Martin, Farr and (particularly) Novak...

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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I recommend Kiss Me, Stupid to the skeptical with no reservations whatsoever.

June 25, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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Kiss Me, Stupid is unlikely to inspire a Broadway musical, top an AFI poll, or birth a hundred-dollar coffee-table book, but it could burnish Wilder's posthumous reputation.

June 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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There was the sharp contrast of surface-banter and concentration on detail; of unpredictable laughter, brushed off by disciplined professionalism.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Both Martin and Novak are at their near best, and the undertone of small-town desperation in Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's script is effectively captured by Walston and his sidekick, Cliff Osmond.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Being a HUGE Wilder fan, I can honestly say that this was a HUGE disappointment. I'd rather watch this than say, BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE 2, but I expected something much better from a director as talented as Wilder.

April 16, 2013 Full Review Source: Film Geek Central
Film Geek Central

Sprinkling in bad jokes and Rat Pack references, Dean Martin's comic timing and delivery is impeccable -- as he parodies and deconstructs his image as a notorious lover and drunk.

August 15, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Whatever ambitions this romantic comedy might have had, they were never realized.

November 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Early production problems show, still fun Wilder

October 19, 2004

What separates 'Stupid' from so many of the so-called 'sex comedies' of the period is its combination of cynicism and directness. Beneath the teasing and the titillation there are some genuinely provocative themes...

August 5, 2003 Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
Kalamazoo Gazette

Novak is surprisingly affecting as the whore who is determined to make something of herself.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

Undeniably lewd, Kiss Me, Stupid exemplifies the go-go Rat Pack sexual sensibilities that fed the American appetite in the dawn of the sexual revolution.

March 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

Stunningly subversive, even for Wilder.

October 3, 2002
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

It just doesn't get very good until halfway through, in large part because the usually excellent Walston is miscast.

August 15, 2002
New Times

Audience Reviews for Kiss Me, Stupid

Laughs and nostalgia intertwine beautifully in Wilder's explorations of American values and culture. Prostitution, pimping and wife swapping are decorously wrapped in a sweet and cunning manner. The viennese genius never ceases to amaze me.
August 9, 2007
pier007

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Coarse, leeing and jejune this borderline idiotic enterprise is unbelievably the joint effort of the usually sterling team of Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond who were WAY off their game here. Cast of fine actors are directed to make fools of themselves with Ray Walston's character being particularly infantile. A notorious flop in it's day whatever Wilder, a master of dark satire, is trying to portray or lampoon in this vulgar mess is hard to ascertain. A miss.
April 18, 2010
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Foreign Titles

  • Küss mich, Dummkopf! (DE)
  • Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) (UK)
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