KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

ilibbus Highly underrated comedy that gets better with repeat viewing. The verbal jousting and clever language is magnificent. A Coen Brothers film with a strong narrative arc, which is increasingly rare in their newer films. Particularly strong performances by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Newman.

OneEightNine Media Where has this movie been all my life? It is basically about a newbie mailroom boy who gets promoted to the president of a company because the CEO wants a proxy to help crash the stock into the ground so that they can buy it cheap and have no outside public investors. But the mailroom boy played my the amazing Tim Robbins has a circle drawn on a piece of paper and etc, etc, etc go watch this movie. It is a larger than life comedy meets film noir meets art-deco meets whatever it wants to be. What a tour 'de force when it comes to world building! The script does drag towards the end and the end itself is a pickle of a problem but all is forgiven because most of this film is brilliant.

punishmentpark This may be the closest the Coens ever came to making a movie, you know, for kids! Not for all kids, maybe, but still. The use of classic slapstick humour, the enchanting settings (even if they are in a city, inside a giant building and a factory) and this endlessly optimistic (sure, he nearly hits rock bottom near the end, but a happy ending can not be far away) Norville Barnes make this a truly exuberant, over the top event, one that could be enjoyed by all.Or so you would think, but actually, the role played by Jennifer Jason Leigh became pretty annoying at moments (as did some others, like that elevator man), even if she did a great job of what she was supposed to do. At the heart of things, there is a sympathetic and heartfelt story perhaps, but it hardly came across with all the tomfoolery and what not.Well done, but hardly my cup of tea these days. 6 out of 10.

DKosty123 This has got to be the worst performance I have ever seen of Paul Newman. If they had used this for the recipe of his spaghetti sauce, ugh.I think this movie might have been better made in the 1950's as it seems that far out of touch with the 1990's. The want ad in the newspaper says it all when it says "want a job where you slave for hours on end with no little or no pay? Work at HudsuckerActually it might take that much work to like this movie. When Robert Osborne introduced it on TCM he mainly mentioned the big names in the cast and the fact that the Coen's got their start with 8MM films. Think they were still doing that when they wrote and filmed this one. They were obviously too big for their britches here as this film falls far short of what they were trying for.There is a rumor that the real movie was put in a port-o-john on the film location by mistake and this is the out takes?