Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Rmpollack-1 I recently watched this again on TCM. The introductory comment said this was a movie about a boy and girl "falling in love". Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a movie about, loneliness, pain, and emotional desperation.Pookie is the classic emotionally distressed outsider. Bright, witty, seeing through things ala Holden Caulfield, and is desperate need of emotional contact with another human being. She literally latches onto and pursues a boy who has no idea of what he's getting into and being a "normal person" is incapable of seeing just how needy and desperate she is; and more importantly he wants to lead an "average, everyday, life" and so is totally unable to fulfill her needs.The movie also does a good job of showing how is is ostracized and treated with great cruelty by the "normal" girls who are her classmates.What we really have in this movie is the origins of the "hippie" movement.

MarieGabrielle This film, along with the performances of the two principals, Minnelli and Burton, as well as the soundtrack, evoke a time in everyone's past, at some time or other.As two drifting college students, they have a chance meeting, become interested in each other, then gradually grow apart. The sets are evocative of New England and upstate New York, beautiful in autumn, beautiful and sad. Reminding us perhaps of past relationships, longing, and wishes that were never fulfilled.The soundtrack is sentimental, but not overly so, I am not a major fan of Minnelli, but in this film her performance was understated and believable. The film leaves us with a sense of loss and longing, recalling times we were younger, relationships of the past. 8/10.

sullymangolf This was another movie that I saw as a high school student in the Philippines back in 1970 while we were stationed at the Subic Bay Naval Base. We always went to the movies. There were 5 movie theaters on the base and each one was free to get in. We didn't have English speaking TV stations in the Philippines at the time I was there. I saw this movie 4 or 5 times. It was a time when we were getting ready to head off to college and many of the films we saw dealt with the California college scene. This one took place in the New England rural area in the small college town setting. The movie was enjoyable for the setting, the characters, and the music. Liza Minelli did a great job as the lonely, confused, student who didn't fit in with the crowd. This movie is in the same category as The Graduate, The Paper Chase, and Love Story. Of the four it is the most simplistic but provides another look at the love relationships between college students in that time period. All these movies made an impression on me at the time as I was young and just getting ready to begin my college years. The song "Come Saturday Morning" provided a good background balance to the movie as it played throughout the movie in various versions. It had a very similar feel to the way "Scarborough Fair" was used in The Graduate. As we lived with the heat and the jungle as my environment for 2 years; this film reminded me of the wonderful seasons of fall and winter that I remembered when I lived in New York and would go upstate to visit friends. One side track here..... As I think of the 4 movies mentioned, songs played a key element in the movies. For some reason The Paper Chase had no theme music or any songs that I recall. The movie was fantastic but I am a musician and with all the great songs of that era it would have, in my opinion, made the movie better. It was a great time to be young back in the late 60's and early 70's. These movies made the experience a little more enjoyable and I enjoy watching them when they are on the tube.

elwileycoyote Liza Minelli plays neurotic "Pookie" who falls in love with a conservative, bookish college freshmen whom she meets riding a bus. And how neurotic (and irritating) she is!! Her schtick is to act out outrageous pranks in order to grab his attention (like sitting cross-legged on his roof). The theme to the movie, "Come Saturday Morning", sung by the Sandpipers on massive doses of seconal, plays repetitively in the background of this movie. Liza is an overbearing misfit, who clings to her serious, no-nonsense boyfriend like the lingering smell of nauseating incense after it has been burning in a room. In a long and painful monologue over the phone-- a tour-de-force for Liza Minelli--she begs him to let her come and spend time with him alone in his college dorm room. Boyfriend Burton is the "strong, silent type."When she shows up, her boyfriend totally ignores her and instead they spend the days in nerve wracking silence. One is therefore led to believe that Burton the boyfriend felt compelled out of sympathy and compassion to let her stay. Poor Pookie--she plays every trick in the book to grab his attention but to no avail. While he studies, she asks him--suggestively--if he "wants to peel a tomatoe?" She serves him lunch and pours him soda out of a bottle with a three foot long neck. She has masking tape over her mouth(get the picture?). To the viewer, this either creates sympathy for her character or you find her pranks irritating--why doesn't she just go away and leave him alone so he can study? You never really know if her schtick irritates or amuses him, or if he just stoically accepts it. In as much as they don't seem to really "connect"--(or really communicate well, is what the director is trying to convey here) he suggests that they spend some time apart, oh, say three months-- before they contact each other again. She agrees, one assumes--because she doesn't protest; she just nods and drives off. When she drives off in her Volkswagen, the viewing audience can't help but breathe a sigh of relief. (Gee, is this called letting someone down "gently"?) One would naturally expect this to be the logical "ending" to this movie, (Sandpiper's theme playing in the background) but it isn't. Inexplicably, Burton's character spends the rest of the picture trying to locate her! After the complete lack of chemistry between the two, one has to wonder: "why would he want to?" Perhaps Pookie's kind of like someone who hangs around and you take for granted, and then, when they're gone, you finally notice them missing, or begin to miss them, anyways. Or maybe he needs someone to cook and wash his clothes for him while he studies.