NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

tieman64 A bizarre mixture of crime drama, comedy and social message movie, "You and Me" is another of Frtiz Lang's anti-capitalist experiments. He'd cite Brecht as the film's chief influence, but the film's avant-gardism is mostly played for laughs. The plot? Sylvia Sidney and George Raft play a pair of criminals on parole and working at a luxurious department store. The store owner has hired a band of similar cases - all ex convicts and petty thieves - to manage his business, a decision he may or may not regret. Much commotion ensues."You and Me" was destroyed by critics upon release, but today offers a number of interesting moments: the bustle of department stores, the clatter of cash registers, "You Can't Get Something For Nothing" warbling on the soundtrack like an anti-musical refrain. Elsewhere, clerks and businessmen are all safe-crackers or thieves, criminal heists echo police confiscations, Lang uses a number of distancing effects and the film's plot seems like a perverse reversal of Lang's earlier "Metropolis", Lang's criminals defending workplace exploitation as being more rational than outright theft.Much of Lang's plot follows a pair of clandestine lovers who break parole restrictions by getting married. Lang tries his hand at comedy, but he's best when solemn. Nevertheless, great shots abound – two lovers fleetingly touching hands whilst riding an escalator, the mirror image of gangster's crushing palms – including several musical sequences which blindsided contemporary critics. As is expected, Lang continues to shoot architecture well, most of which is Art Deco or sports modernist trimmings. The film's noir shadows suggest a crime movie, but the comedy and champaign suggest something else. What's going on? Lang called the film his Threepenny Opera.7.5/10 – For Lang fans only.

bkoganbing You And Me is an interesting experiment which falls way short in execution, but still is an interesting view.The closest American film I could compare it to is Al Jolson's Hallelujah I'm a Bum which utilized that same sing/talk rhythmic technique in many spots. Rodgers&Hart's efforts were not as butchered as Kurt Weill's were, my guess is that Paramount got cold feet and tried to salvage the film as they saw it by making it more of a typical gangster yarn.The story involves Harry Carey who as part of his payback to society hires freshly paroled convicts in his department store. The presumption is that he does screen them for employment. George Raft is one of those ex-convicts hired there and he meets and falls for Sylvia Sidney. She knows about him, but he doesn't know she is also on parole. Other prison pals working for Carey are, George E. Stone, Warren Hymer, Jack Pennick, Robert Cummings and Roscoe Karns.One very unregenerated crook, Barton MacLane, tries to get the whole crew of them to help knock over the store. What happens is the rest of the plot of the film.Perhaps You and Me might have been better done elsewhere. I'm thinking of Warner Brothers who specialized in these working class stories. Barton MacLane, George E. Stone, and Warren Hymer certainly all were part of Warner's gangster stable and George Raft moved to Warner Brothers himself a year after You and Me came out. Paramount just didn't go in for stories like these and the results show.Highlight of the film is Sylvia Sidney giving a lecture in economics about how crime doesn't pay. For heist guys like these when you deduct the expenses of a job, it really doesn't pay. Only the folks at the top really make out.By the way you might call what Kurt Weill tried to do musically and Fritz Lang brought to the screen as one long rap music video. You and Me may have been way too soon ahead of its time.Still it's probably worth a look if for no other reason than to see a joint collaborative effort of two expatriates from the Nazi regime, Kurt Weill and Fritz Lang.

wdbasinger This is one of the best film starring George Raft. Many character actors also show up at different parts of the films such as Greta Granstedt, Ellen Drew, George E. Stone, Bob Cummings, Barton MacLane, and others. Although the film gets a bit campy at times, this is first class entertainment. And Sylvia Sidney is a real peach !!!I am a great fan of the late director Fritz Lang. My very favorite film from him is the science fiction classic "Metropolis". A close second is "Frau I'm Monde". Other great films are "M", "Woman in the Window", and "1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse". This film with the music of Kurt Weill and the way the various characters are developed in the context of the modern workplace and the struggle to find happiness and thrive in a fast-paced society makes this one of Fritz Lang's best dramas.Dan Basinger

Joel I This collaboration by Fritz Lang and Kurt Weill is one of the oddest films ever made. It's part gangster story, part comedy, part soap opera, part leftist propaganda...and part musical! Perhaps Weill was trying to find the cinematic equivalent of what he did in the theater with Bertolt Brecht. In any event, the experiment is a failure but a noble failure and in parts quite interesting. It's definitely worthy seeing for two montages set to rhythmic voiceover narration, for Sylvia Sidney's sympathetic performance and for the fact that you'll never see anything else quite like it.