Some Like It Hot (1959)

Rating: 6/10 (14 January 2020)

Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, George Raft, Dave Barry, Pat O'Brien, Nehemiah Persoff, Edward G. Robinson Jr., Al Breneman.
Legendary Billy Wilder burlesque comedy (co-written alongside I. A. L. Diamond) with Prohibition-era musicians Lemmon and Curtis going on the run in drag with an all-female band after witnessing the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Well-structured and paced until the overextended home stretch, with Lemmon and Curtis in fine form (the former gets most of the best lines, the latter trots out a pretty amusing Cary Grant impersonation), despite the fact that neither one is remotely convincing as a member of the opposite sex; trouble is, it's just not all that funny, stretching its one-joke premise razor thin and lacking invention during the expected plot complications. Amusing enough to rate as decent entertainment, but its reputation as one of the funniest films of all-time is puzzling; maybe one's mileage would improve if they find men wearing women's clothes inherently funny by concept alone? At least Brown's famous final line earns its reputation.
63/100