Just perfect...

Fantastic!

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

I am not in Forman's movies but definitely, if not with his first two, with this one he is able to catch the eye. Especially after his previous one in which he presented man's life through the libido's desires to light fires and of the firmen's to put out fires like the libido put out with age.Here age again is central theme. People say that every big producer should have done 80's movie about the American teenagers or movie that shows a bathroom. In this we can see both things. How much the generations walk past each other, how much the adults do not remember their past and how much the present of their children is well known to them. Parents are always worried and will worry, that is the system in which we have decided to be. There is choice but is there any boldness? This movie is not comical, not nasty, not joyful, not sad not strange, not boring, not traditional, not well known, maybe reminds of the opposite of all this but is not one of them. Definitely in it is hinted the talent of the producer which for now is staring deeply into the psyche of his personages and slightly is touching social questions which he will rise in hi next movies.The movie is two-shifted, behind it is the music of the life, the different songs about different moments with different moods in them. It is innovative and it is interesting. But how is made that way I leave to your imagination.http://vihrenmitevmovies.blogspot.com/

I first saw this in 1989. It was old then, but nearly 20 years later its just as fresh and witty. Superb sound editing, great comic set pieces (the how to smoke a joint scene or the black salute), poignant (finding the smokes in the Jeannie's room with "Even the white horses" playing), the music performances (Ode to a Screw) and such acute observation of American Society. Nothing is missed: the comic potential of the fact that there is a "Society for the Parents of Lost Children(SPLC)", the realization that it is the parents who are lost; the lucrative potential of the counter culture and the "establishment's" realization of this (best seen in the hilarious speech by Jeanies boyfriend toward the end). Much of the comedy is drawn from the characters' little crises in their lives and their attempts to solve them, but it is always a warm and affectionate comedy. Forman likes these people, he likes America, he's willing them on, every slightly misguided step of the way.

I saw this film 20 times i a row,- as a 5 to 6 years old kid,-(i had free access to a "Radical" cinema in Copenhagen , Denmark at "Husets Biograf" , where i also saw "2001" and all the films by Gunther Grass and Werner Hersog, 10 to 20 times i a row ! )-in the 70's-it blew my mind ,-and taught me something about Pot and,-grownups!!! I liked it then,- and i like it now ! i really like the scene where the girl has her boyfriend - who is a musician , playing in a band - home for dinner, and her father -pitifull-ask how much money he earn as a musician !!!(he earns more than the father!!! )-and the "Learn to smoke pot"-scene is a classic ! (Seen By Mikkel Grum Bovin Denmark)

i saw the movie when it came out.it was great .i have told many people about it and wanted them to see it.this was long before video tape machines or even videos were available.i did not know Milo's foreman was the director until i saw a review of his work.i was not surprised to learn of his connection to many of my other favorite films.i cannot come up with ten lines of comment but hope those of you who review these lines of comment that after thirty four years since i saw this movie,i would like it so much i would join your site and writ e this comment.i have always wanted to see this movie again.maybe it will be available on DVD or video.have i made ten lines i hope so.your faithful viewer bill kc9awa