Predictable, but silly

Rating: Null/10 (25 May 2004)

It was hard to believe all that Some Like It Hot' got away with in the 1950's. Sexual innuendos, cross-dressing, barely their `clothes' and more definitely made it an eyebrow-raising movie. It was risqué, but it's what made it such a funny movie. Marilyn Monroe did as excellent job at playing a dumb blonde (If she was really acting at all) and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon did a superb job playing two cross-dressers trying to win a pretty girl's heart. Marilyn Monroe played a sweet, innocent girly-girl in an all-female band who every guy wanted, especially Joe and Jerry (Curtis and Lemmon). The two struggling musicians meet Sugar (Monroe) after they witness the St. Valentines Day Massacre and need to flee from the mob that is out to kill them. The only way to escape from being killed is to cross-dress and join the all-female band. The idea isn't too bad when they find out that Sugar is apart of the band. The girls in the band seem fresh out of seventh grade: boy-crazy and naïve, though it didn't seem to bother Joe and Jerry whose alias' while being cross-dressers where Josephine and Daphne. Even though the two guys were trying to win over Sugar while somehow remaining cross-dressers, it seemed to me that they were having a little more fun playing dress up than other guys would. I think they became too comfortable as women and it was kind of creepy, but also very humorous. While Jerry was having more success getting closer to Sugar and becoming more of her confidante, Joe was having more success in unintentionally wooing a rich yacht owner named Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown). This twisted comedy made me laugh the whole way through. The mishaps and misfortunes of the characters were very inventive. I thought that the ending was very witty and although I could see the direction that it was headed, I didn't think any other ending would have been as funny. Although, it didn't take incredibly talented actors to pull off a comedy such as Some Like It Hot', it is still a movie that I would watch again and again.