On the one hand this is a greatly entertaining, goofy, comedy but on the other its also a bit of a failure.What the movie fails at is being a consistent one and maintaining a story throughout. It seems that about half way through the film-makers decided to throw the story overboard and to me the second half of the movie did not really felt in tone with its first half. But this might also very well be simply due to the fact that there wasn't much story to work with in the first place. It's an extremely simplistic story, that serves as an excuse to allow Jerry Lewis act crazy and incredibly immature.And this is what makes the movie still some good lighthearted fun to watch. The comedy is real goofy and slapstick like and it shall most likely please the Jerry Lewis fans. The movie really has some good laughs in it, so as a comedy the movie still delivers, despite of its weaker second half.Seriously, things don't even make sense anymore in its second half and a couple of different story lines and characters get thrown in, as if it all was a last minute decision. Things get really forced, such as for instance the 'love story' that really came out of nowhere and therefore just never worked out at all.But no, I don't want to sound too negative about this movie, since it was one that I still enjoyed watching. The movie is a fun one to watch and a true pleasure to look at, due to its nice sets and Jerry Lewis, who was simply perfectly silly and provided the movie with much more fun and entertainment than its script could ever had.Decent enough, simple entertainment.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

As the reviewer said before me, this just wasn't funny. I had prepared a review of this film after seeing it last week on TCM, but I guess I was too harsh and they didn't post it, but I still want to share my thoughts, so if you all don't mind, I'll try to be kinder and gentler.I have always been (sort of) a Jerry Lewis fan, in fact when I was a small child, I really loved him, and I think that maybe, when I was maybe 10 or 12 years old, and saw a movie like this, I probably thought it was much funnier, than I do now, as a middle aged person. As I have stated in other reviews, I think that Jerry's films from this time frame where he was in complete control of the production suffered from that, because they focused too much on him, and his antics, and not the story per se. And as I stated, when you compare a film like this to one of the very good ones that were made back then (like the Nutty Professor), it just seems all the more a shame.Basically Jerry plays his "the little boy that never grew up" character, again, and here he finishes college I think but finds out his girl friend evidently found someone else, so he decides he hates girls now, and runs away west, looking for work, and wouldn't you know it the only job he can find is working at a (get ready for it) women's boarding house, that has, of course about 511 gorgeous girls running around. So for about 2 hours we have: Jerry making noises, Jerry making faces, Jerry destroying things, Jerrry making more faces, Jerry making more noises, etc. In fact, as far as "spoilers," I can't tell you how it ends, because I only made it halfway through.It was a shame how bad this movie was, truly truly awful.

On this, what would have been Kathleen Freeman's 88th birthday, I wanted to talk about one of her movies (even though she only has a supporting role): "The Ladies Man". In this one, Jerry Lewis loses his fiancée and moves into a house with a a bunch of women. He spends pretty much the whole movie getting into and out of various wacky situations. Best of all are the scenes involving Baby; they must have liked filming those! OK, so I admit that the idea of a man in a house with many women probably seems a little sexist. But as long as we understand that, the movie's still great. OK in a pinch, although far from the best comedy. Also featuring George Raft in one scene.

THE LADIES' MAN (1961) ** Jerry Lewis (who wrote and directed as well) hijinks with our boy recently graduated from college and recently jilted romantically finds work as houseboy for a boarding house bountiful with a bevy of babes! The usual nuttiness with sight gags and slapstick in high manic style.