Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2/4
"You Can't Take It With You" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 02/20/2012
James Stewart plays the son of a cold hearted tycoon who gets engaged to his secretary whose family are the antithesis of everything his snobbish upper class parents believe in. Essentially a class comedy from Frank Capra, You Can't Take It With You is one of those films that expounds the philosophy of "money isn't everything", and being Capra, you know right from the outset how it's going to end. Stewart and Jean Arthur make a cute couple although I couldn't help the feeling that Jimmy just wasn't in it enough, spending most of his time stood in the background smirking at the proceedings. Capra usually treads the line between sincerity and sentimentality with supreme skill, but this one all felt a little too contrived to me. Jean Arthur's family felt too forced into screwball wackiness …
Rating of
3.5/4
Review - You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Delorted - wrote on 04/13/2008
Martin Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore) and his family lived the way they pleased and did what they liked. But when a big corporation wanted to buy out their neighborhood, they fight back in the only way they know how in the Best Picture winning film “You Can't Take It with You.”
What can I say about such a movie? It has just about everything you could want out of a movie of its time. Romance, comedy, and a moral worth remembering. The chemistry between each character is truly believable, especially that of Tony Kirby (James Stewart) and Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur). The entire ensemble is one of the best I've ever seen because while each character is drastically different than the next, they all work together on screen in such a way that you can't help but smile.
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