Waste of time

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Sometimes you just want to see a movie to have a good time, without having to analyze or think about it too much, it usually takes attractive and skilled actors to pull it off, and 'Glass Bottom Boat' is a perfect example. Colourful, pretty to look at, and Doris Day and handsome, rugged Rod Taylor at their very best, with a boatload of Hollywood's best character actors of the day giving expert support. Doris was Doris, and that's all anyone ever wanted her to be, but it took real talent to be Doris Day. Unlike another reviewer, I thought Rod Taylor was loaded with Charisma, and was a perfect leading man who seemed a great match with Doris. Yes it's nonsense and lightweight, but we all need a little of that from time to time to briefly take away the cares of a troubled world. This is a movie you can settle down and watch, smile, laugh, feel good at the end for a few hours until the real world takes hold again, and couldn't we do with more like it today? If it's not my favorite Doris Day or Rod Taylor movie, it sure goes close!

This is a fantastic movie! I had heard of the title, and had it on my list of must-gets, even though I had never actually watched it before. I finally picked it up for $1.00 in a charity shop. This is exactly the kind of picture that I enjoy; a great cast in a romantic comedy, with lots of laugh-out-loud antics thrown in. I was surprised at how good Rod Taylor is in this. He's not my favourite actor, but he and Doris have great chemistry in this movie, and they are ably assisted by the likes of Paul Lynde, Dom DeLuise, Edward Andrews, John McGiver, and Dick Martin thrown in for good measure. With those names on the bill you already know that you're in for a heck of a treat, but this picture goes above and beyond! There's slapstick galore throughout, and it's almost as though Frank Tashlin said "Now, Doris and Rod, you say your lines, and these other guys are just going to do their thing and you just go with it, and I'm going to keep rolling, o.k.?" I mean, I know that there was a script, but it just feels as though sometimes they threw it away!! The movie is fast-paced, witty, sometimes predictable, but always wonderfully entertaining. Paul Lynde is such a crack-up that you can imagine the whole cast and crew falling about in hysterics many times over while filming this. There are also several appearances by the familiar face of Alice Pearce who plays her usual nosey neighbour character, as she does in many of Doris's movies. I love this picture, and it is now one of my favourites!! I think you will like it too. It's a great movie for the whole family from a time when Hollywood made great pictures! Pity they don't make good stuff like this now! 10/10.

The script, pacing, and editing of "The Glass Bottom Boat" fail Doris Day and Rod Taylor. It's a shame, because the movie seemed to have had a lot to offer.Surprisingly, Ms. Day plays an attractive divorced woman who has given up on romance; instead, she enjoys her job, and a "family" of animals. Mr. Taylor, we assume, is otherwise interested in twentysomethings, but he is attracted to Day. Their introductory scene has Day half-naked, so we know Taylor is aware her sexual allure is not faltering. I thought their relationship was far to underplayed - Day subtlety touches on it in a scene following a romantic encounter; but, we know too little of the lead characters' past.The supporting players are fantastic - Paul Lynde looks great as a woman, showing he could have also played Endora on "Bewitched" (as well as Uncle Arthur)! BUT, the script doesn't gel - it's a shame Taylor revealed he thought Day's character was too stupid to be a spy. Later, he says he loves her banana cream pies; yet, we are left believing he really thinks she is stupid. They should have yelled, "RE-WRITE!" ***** The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) Frank Tashlin ~ Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Paul Lynde

It takes more than a great Hollywood star with a telescope, singing about the stars in the sky, to coerce most viewers into increasing the star rating they would award for a particular film. Here there is little else to encourage them to do this, although the Director Frank Tashlin worked hard and fortunately the film does have a few other fairly catchy lyrics its viewers may enjoy enough to increase the rating that they give it. But apart from this, its assessment is largely a matter of how much the viewer concerned enjoys pure physical slapstick comedy of the old fashioned type. Those viewers who do so the most usually seem to award it quite a high rating, but today there are too many who are not slapstick fans. I could watch almost any ten minute extract from this film enjoying the high tech slapstick with which it is replete, but watching it any longer quickly leads to increasing boredom as there is really no story or human interest to back up the visual pyrotechnics.Satire is a word Hollywood seems not to understand, but the basic story, of important and secret space research projects being conducted by NASA, would lend itself admirably to the type of satirical treatment which might have created a really worthwhile film. If the scriptwriter had abandoned his first draft and studied the works of Swift, Ibsen, Wilde, or even Shaw, he might even have provided MGM with the script for quite a memorable film - it is interesting to speculate whether or not it would ever have been filmed. As it is both the script and the resulting film are extremely so-so, and in my view this film has never justified its release as a DVD. I am sorry about this because some of the camera work was first rate, but although the potential was really there, I can only give it an IMDb rating of three stars.