SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

mark.waltz A black comedy about how Hollywood rewards success and damns disaster. Having had a few of his own, writer/director Blake Edwards got digs in at the whole system of Hollywood big shots, managers, publicity agents, gossip columnists and the all around selfishness of the industry. Just a decade before, he had tried to change Julie Andrews' image with "Darling Lili", a sophisticated musical comedy that dared to show her being sweet and sexy; a spy, yes, but still sweet and sexy. It flopped, gained a bit of notoriety and eventually a slight cult following. In this often irritating spoof of Hollywood bad taste, Andrews is a Peter Pan imaged goodie goodie, and a victim of her first flop. Director husband Richard Mulligan is personally blamed for the disaster, with suicide his first priority. But a shock brings him back to life, determined to turn it into a hit by adding a shot of the virgin star's" boobies". Yep, that's it in a clam shell bra, and for the former Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp, it's a nice pair, too.There are ramifications, but they don't really matter after the "unveiling". The script though is witty and filled with gem one-liners, mostly uttered by the hysterical Robert Preston in a role that pre- dated his "Victor/Victoria" Toddy by one year. Shelley Winters spoofs agent Sue Mengers (then unknown, but later made infamous by Bette Midler on Broadway), and Loretta Swit gets tossed around and justifiably abused as a much hated gossip columnist. William Holden adds a third Hollywood slam onto his resume, having starred in the first film to puncture a hole on Hollyweird's tire in "Sunset Blvd." and the lesser known "Fedora".Then, there's Larry Hagman as the studio head who is as ruthless as J.R. Ewing, Robert Vaughan, Robert Webber and Robert Loggia as other ruthless members of the Hollywood cog. A bittersweet cut away plot has a has been actor dying on the beach in front of Mulligan's house and nobody noticing him, just his grief stricken dog. This gives a bittersweet theme to the film, but oh, that ending, which left many people cold. So many great moments mixed up together in a stew that went bad even with refrigeration.

JasparLamarCrabb To say that Blake Edwards' satire on Hollywood is wicked would be a wild understatement...it's almost cruel. Fortunately almost doesn't count. S.O.B. is an unbridled masterpiece. Richard Mulligan (looking very much like Blake Edwards) is a producer whose latest saccharine soaked musical is a colossal flop. The trauma leads him first to a nervous breakdown and then on to the epiphany of re-imagining the film as a dirty movie. He corrals his wife into baring her breasts (shocking of course as she's played by Julie Andrews)and goes to war with kinky studio boss Robert Vaughn. Also in the mix are the likes of Marisa Berenson, Robert Loggia, Stuart Margolin (as Andrews' constantly conniving assistant), Shelley Winters as a lesbian talent agent, Robert Webber as a lunatic public relations man and Loretta Swit as a thinly veiled amalgamation of Rona Barrett & Joyce Haber. They're all priceless. Robert Preston is the quack doctor feel-good who's always ready with a needle to calm EVERYONE'S nerves (including his own). Edwards makes his most pointed satire since THE PARTY. No one is spared. Larry Hagman, Rosanna Arquette, William Holden and a very odd Larry Storch also appear.

Isaac5855 S.O.B. was director Blake Edwards' own "All that Jazz", a self-indulgent, slightly over-the-top, slightly disguised look at a particularly period in his Hollywood career where he and wife Julie Andrews were treated pretty despicably by the Hollywood big shots who can make or break people in Hollywood with one telephone call. This film is loosely based on the time after Edwards had completed his wife's film STAR! and the studio hated it, wrested control of the film from Edwards, cut like an hour of footage from the film, retitled it "These Were the Happy Times" and then tried to shelve it. After all of this Edwards couldn't get arrested in Hollywood until he hit a bullseye with the 1979 comedy "10." But this 1981 comedy was a reminder to Hollywood bigwigs that Edwards had not forgotten their treatment of him. In S.O.B.(which, BTW, stands for Standard Operational Bull***t), Richard Mulligan plays the manic Hollywood director, Felix Farmer, who is suicidal after his film "Night Wind", starring his wife, Sally Miles (Julie Andrews) bombs miserably. Farmer is practically written off in Hollywood until he gets the inspiration to re-shoot the film as a near pornographic extravaganza and have his wife bare her breasts for the first time on screen. This uncompromising look at the inner workings of Hollywood may seem a little off the wall. These are not pleasant people for the most part and every character in the film, even Andrews, has their own agenda. The merciless screenplay is well executed by a glorious all-star cast backing up Mulligan and Andrews, including William Holden, Robert Vaughn, Robert Preston (hysterical as a doctor who gives out pills like candy), Robert Webber, Loretta Swit, Craig Stevens, Stuart Margolin, Shelley Winters, Marisa Berensen, Rosanna Arquette, Robert Loggia, and Larry Hagman. There are several funny scenes in this film and a lot of interesting things happen that by the time Andrews does bare her breasts, it is somewhat anti-climactic, but there is much to enjoy here for those willing to pay the attention that is required as the story is painted on a broad canvas with a lot of characters, but it is worth the trip and, after I saw it the first time, I wanted to see it again and again and think it is one of the great sleepers of 1980's.

Marilyn Armstrong From the opening scene to the final fade out, this movie, for it's genre, is as good as it gets.I noticed when they gave Blake Edwards his lifetime achievement award at the Oscars this past year, they did NOT mention S.O.B. amongst his list of films. Interesting. Could it be that this scathingly witting, brilliant, intelligent ... and, oh yes, HILARIOUS ... film cut too close to home?The cast is top drawer and everyone is at the top of his or her game. From Julie Andrews, playing a delicious parody of herself, to William Holden, who in the course of the movie declaims his own obituary, to Robert Preston (not a shyster ... he is a QUACK), it is wonderful. I'm sure the Hollywood Power Players hated it. Unless you are One Of Them, you will probably love it. It's great.