Like Jello on springs

Rating: Null/10 (17 February 1999)

The dazzling team of Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond deliver the textbook screen comedy in Some Like It Hot, one of the most charming, brilliant, and hilarious films of the American cinema. Marilyn Monroe is luminous as the aptly named Sugar Kane, and the dynamic duo of Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis are knockouts (in more ways than one) as two down-on-their-luck musicians who disguise themselves as women to avoid a mob rubout. It is nearly impossible to overstate the quality of Some Like It Hot, which seems about as close to perfect as a feature film can get. From Monroe's scorching sex appeal to Lemmon's verve and elan, from Curtis' dead-on Cary Grant impersonation to Joe E. Brown's legendary final line, Some Like It Hot is a supernova in movie heaven.