Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Blistering performances.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The Seven Year Itch is a watchable film with enough interesting content, though lacking in its labelled areas of comedy and romance.The start of the film is a bit of a struggle, I didn't much care for the Richard character and I didn't like how he is thinking out loud and then doing what he is thinking, it is quite annoying. The point of inner dialogue to add the character's thoughts because they aren't actively doing anything or to be doing something and thinking something different or to explain what you are currently doing or seeing. The scene with Dr. Brubaker, I recall being the most entertaining. Marilyn Munroe was fine, lifting the level of the film somewhat, but to no great heights for me.

Lately, I had a very interesting read about male infidelity, an expert was asked a simple, if not falsely naive, question: why is that men keep looking at other women even when they are with their love companions? Everyone noticed my head's nodding movements and the smile that went along, the expert stated the obvious, men are less likely to monogamy, so a man doesn't look at another woman because she's attractive but because she's another woman. The answer was in the question. The catch is that the man instantly forgets about that woman and won't think of cheating his wife. It's just the compulsive need to "check on the menu even though he's on diet". Still, a man always wants more, despite the rules fixed by any society, even the old 50's puritan American God-fearing one. Well, at least, that's what Billy Wilder believes and whether he's right or not is irrelevant, as long as it's funny. And while he handles it with humor, we suspect that there are some shades of truth behind the caricature of average men in "The Seven Year-Itch". Wilder finds a hilarious way to assert the universality and timelessness of the phenomenon through an opening sequence that showed Natives from the Island of Manhattan also getting rid of wives and family... to enjoy some private 'manly' business with a Native pin-up. And after an ellipse of a few centuries, respectable family men wave goodbye to their beloved ones before turning their head to the first 'tomato'. But one man is more disciplined than the others: played by Tom Ewell, Sherman promises his wife (Evelyn Keyes) not to drink, smoke or go out at night for the whole summer holidays. And he seems determined to keep his word, motivated by the promise of a long period of pure male idleness in the house's restrictive area. And Ewell plays fair with the rules; he goes to a vegan restaurant, hides his cigarettes packs in a drawer, then the drawer's key and drinks a bottle of coke. Isn't the best way not to yield to temptation not to come to it? But what if it comes to you?Sure, infidelity is reprehensible, I'm not sure any man with nerves of steel would resist to the 'Girl' next door if she happened to be Marilyn Monroe. This is quite a case of force majeure if you asked me. And in "The Seven Year Itch" Marilyn Monroe is sexy in a way that hasn't been soiled yet by the likes of Kardashian or Cyrus, sensual, voluptuous, yet her obliviousness to the effect she has on Sherman makes her even more irresistible. The film is full of clever 'fantasy' sequences in fact; the whole thing is a perfect fantasy. This is man with average look, even by Hollywood average looks' standards, yet the girl comes to his house, drinks with him, asks to sleep, and creatively uses the air conditioner, like a foretaste to a coming iconic moment. This is the funniest aspect of the film, Sherman doesn't even need to seduce the Girl, the real struggle is with his conscience, and seeing him wrestling with the impulses of this beast inside is the key to the film's enjoyment. Of course, it would have made sense if they 'made it', The Seven-year Itch" was based on a successful play about a husband cheating on his wife, the title being a reference to the midlife crisis tickling men's hormones after seven years of marriage. But in the 50's, Broadway was far more liberal than Hollywood, still under the tyranny of the Hayes Code. Like crime, infidelity wouldn't pay, or wouldn't even be object of clowning around. No kidding, it was a time where the Catholic League could prevent people from watching a film to save their souls. And it's hard to believe that Wilder who broke so many censorship grounds with "Double Indemnity", "Sunset Blvd." and "The Lost Weekend" would face the harshest resistance with a harmless comedy. But it's ignoring the Master's capability to counter-attack with an inventive screenplay full of delightful innuendo and ambiguous lines; he managed to deliver a comedy that is still naughty and raunchy for its time. That he considered the finished result a 'nothing' film because he couldn't feature the most central aspect of the play is too severe a judgment. Sure, he swam in less safe waters with "The Apartment" and "Avanti" broke the ultimate taboo by daringly showing jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills as naked as unfaithful, but Monroe wouldn't wait for so long... and they still exchanged a few sensual kisses, didn't they?Within its sexual limitations, "The Seven Year Itch" fully delivers its premises and provides the one image that forever made Monroe an icon, with the infamous blowing dress scene above the subway, a scene more iconic than the film itself. The scene also suffered from censorship and we don't get the full picture of Monroe with her dress blown, but the effect is the same nonetheless. And the picture is so iconic it took many shots, with many passersby whistling and cheering at Monroe, under the bitter eyes of newlywed Joe Di Maggio. What a sad irony that a scene that had to be shot again in a studio, still cost a marriage. As the Girl said: "it makes you think".But what a price to pay for posterity, if not a major comedy, not in the same league than the superior "Some Like it Hot", "The Seven Year Itch" blessed us with Monroe's signature shot, broke a few boundaries in terms of censorship and if the story isn't the most sensational, its making has everything, it is about sex, love, censorship, religion and marriage. The story of "The Seven-Year Itch" elevates it to this category of movies that didn't need to be masterpieces to become parts of Hollywood legend.

Billy Wilder made some of the greatest films of all time, and most of them hold up to this day. Sadly, I don't believe The Seven Year Itch is one of them. It's fun, lighthearted, and has the benefit of Monroe's charm, but it's much more dated than Wilder's other ventures.Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe star in a film about men who send their wives and children off to Maine for the hot New York Summer while they fill their minds with ideas of adultery and temptation. At its core, it's a dated premise. This type of film would not be green-lit in today's Hollywood, especially with its treatment of women. With that said, the dated humor sometimes can work to its benefit and add to its charm. But other times, it can be cringe worthy.There really isn't a whole lot of depth to this story. Knowing how great Wilder can be, it more or less just seems like he went through the motions with this comedy. It's filmed in mostly one location and doesn't have any rounded out supporting characters like Sabrina or Sunset Boulevard do. The script is also exposition heavy with a semi-neurotic performance from Ewell. It reminded me a lot like Martin Freeman's turn in the Fargo TV series. A man desperately wanting to be cared for and appreciated, but he turns to irrational ways of producing it.The Seven Year Itch is very much a product of 1950's Hollywood. Women weren't given great roles, and so the prototypical 'dumb blonde' gig that Monroe gets here isn't all that surprising. So looking back, you can certainly appreciate the alluring role and film for what it is, but its ideas and themes don't hold up well at all.+Monroe's charm+Goofy sense of humor-Very dated-Doesn't have Wilder's usual wit7.2/10

Richard Sherman: "Oh no. Not today".The story to The Seven Year Itch is about a New Yorker Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) ships his wife, Helen (Evelyn Keyes), and their son off to Maine for vacation. Left alone to work back in Manhattan, Richard encounters a gorgeous blonde model (Marilyn Monroe) who has moved into the apartment upstairs, and becomes immediately infatuated. While pondering infidelity, Richard dreams of his beautiful new neighbor - - but will his fantasies about her become a reality?I couple of days ago it just came to me that I haven't seen any movies starring the icon herself Marilyn Monroe. I mean wow how can I go through life without seeing the most ionic actress of all time on the screen showing her brilliance in front of my eyes, but I rather waste my time watching garbage Hollywood movies release today and I know I can skip them and already skipped some movies that I had zone interest in, but for the bad movies from this year will be in my worst movies of 2015 list which is coming out at the end of December, because if your going to make the best list of the year you got to have the worse as well. But anywhere I'm only seeing these classic one by one, because it's all about perfect timing to watch them if I'm in the kind of mood to watching them, but after noticing that I haven't seen any Marilyn Monroe films so I quickly went to watch one of her films and I picked this movie and it was a good pick.Tom Ewell who plays the love himself thinking he can get any women he likes kind of guy and he was a funny character. Tom really played he's character really well as he made his character likability and understandable. He had great line delivers and in a way he's a bit like some men out there that can't get a date and think that every women wants them, and I think a lot of people can relate to that by the character and Tom Ewell great performance.Now let's talk about the great beauty herself, Marilyn Monroe and by the first sentence of "Hi", I already liked her. This is my first movie that I've seen starring Monroe and this is a performance worth waiting for because she was so adorable and just unforgettable and as I said before her first ever sentence won me over just like that. Marilyn Monroe gave a brilliant performance that I'm going to check out her other movies pretty soon. Nicely done Marilyn.The chemistry between Monroe and Ewell was spot on perfect. Both of them had great scenes together that made them look like the perfect couple that some people wish for. I think it's something to do with the writing and the actors themselves as they the ones one pulled it off and made it worked, so I give the actors credit for that. The comedy was good, the directing was great and extremely well done, the character's & actors made the chemistry funny and watchable.Now for problems: This movie was release in the 50's and yeah I know the 50's can have it's goofy judging by the movie that was release at that time and I'm mostly given for that, but this movie takes it up the walls, I mean these a scene where Tom Ewell character has day dreams of women falling for him and that scene alone took me out a little bit as it was like the movie was trying to push the message into me face saying "Look he loves himself and he's kind of lonely, isn't that just sad, or just look at that". I already got the message that this guy is lonely as he talks to himself maybe to the fact that he's been alone for a while, but beside that nick pick I still enjoyed the movie.Overall The Seven Year Itch in my opinion is a good comedy as the acting and character's made the movie want it is.