You've got to love it!

Rating: 10/10 (7 March 2007)

What makes a film funny? If we were to be completely honest, we would probably admit that the film has to make us want to laugh and that there are several quite different ways to do so.
"Some Like It Hot" hooks you with its characters, who are all small and very sympathetic fish in a wild current of events that they never control and still dream that by them they'll find their luck in life.
Little pleasures of little people, set during the prohibition the film misses no opportunity to show ordinary people secretly drinking, thus furnishing an echoing background of its major theme, the quest for love and money. There are a lot of great punch lines, like "Nobody talks like that." (Cary Grant does indeed!) or "Well, don't look now, but the whole town is underwater!", but where the film touches the sublime is when Joe and Sugar tell themselves badly masked lies, everyone of them hoping to profit from the other in an extraordinary relationship, while in fact its just the repetition of the same kind of relationship that Joe and Sugar are having all of the time.
Besides, it's a pleasure to see Jack Lemon throwing himself into his role as he does. If it wouldn't be for his childish enthusiasm, the whole wonderful "crowded bed scene" wouldn't be half as funny as it is.
Because of this and because of its wonderful music and its marvelous pacing that leaves you no moment uninvolved "Some Like It Hot" is one of the best comedies ever made, if not the best, but since I saw "Kin-Dza-Dza" I don't want to claim that any more.