What a waste of my time!!!

Absolutely amazing

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

The acting in this movie is really good.

While I'm not a fan of Pierre Elliot Trudeau's ex-girlfriend, there's no question Barbra Streisand is a superlative talent as an actress, singer and composer. She has more talent in her pinkie finger than Jennifer Lawrence has in her whole body. She owns What's Up Doc? fully and delivers a tour-de-force performance. Streisand sings, acts, showcases her comedic chops and even sizzles with her understated sensuousness throughout the zany proceedings.Peter Bogdanovich's delicious take-off of the classic screwball comedies of yesteryear is spiced up with references to iconic Bugs Bunny cartoons. Bab's Judy Maxwell is a wisecracking, confident go- getter who is attracted to mousy scientist-musician Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal), who has come to San Francisco with his frigid fiancée Eunice (the late great Madeline Kahn in her film debut) to compete for a grant.You also have a hilarious game of cat-and-mouse involving four exactly alike duffel bags being stolen and re-stolen by various shady characters (one of whom is future Boss Hogg Sorrell Booke) without them looking inside of them. These individuals and Maxwell reek havoc on the posh hotel in uproarious fashion.Eventually, these two story lines mesh in a crazy chase through the streets of San Francisco where the screwball also meshes with Bugs Bunny.I really enjoyed WUD. It actually is a funny film and the references to the classic film shorts are spliced in at the right time. Like so many other Warner Brothers films of the last Golden Age of Cinema, you will never see anything like this today. It's family-friendly but adults will find plenty to tickle their funny bone. In a day of fart jokes, blue humor and sexual tastelessness, there is always the classics to turn to and WUD is a fine film.If only there were more Judy Maxwells in Ottawa...

In 1972, director Peter Bogdanovich had the smarts and - let's face it - balls to attempt to make his own version of an old-school full-blown farce, specifically a remake of Howard Hawks' Bringing up Baby. Now, matching up to Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn was always going to be a tough ask, but Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand gave it the ol' college try, resulting in the criminally entertaining What's Up, Doc?A timid professor Dr. Howard Bannister (O'Neal) comes to San Francisco for a musicologists' convention with his prissy fiancée Eunice Burns (Madeline Kahn) to get some much-needed grant money. Here he bumps into an eccentric, disaster-prone "daffy dame" Judy Maxwell (Streisand) whose antics slowly but surely throw his carefully ordered life into upheaval. Judy is an inveterate flirt who won't take "no" for an answer but Howard unavoidably finds himself gravitating to Judy's gravitational center. For the plot to crackle with necessary screw-balling mania, a beautifully disordered case of mistaken identity involving identical red plaid overnight cases - one containing Howard's precious igneous rocks, one Judy's lingerie, another full of valuable gems and the final one carrying top-secret government documents - adds to his woes.All through its 94 minute run-time, Peter Bogdanovich is busy paying homage to all his favorite flavors of humor, efficiently packing them into the brief runtime, hurtling from buffoonery and slapstick, to impersonations and word-play, and lets his leading lady have the one song to smooch up a romantic moment. One of the biggest surprises about 'What's Up, Doc?' is how wonderful Streisand and O'Neal are at comedy and at witty banter - and how much chemistry they have. Barbra Streisand has never been sexier than she is in this movie. She succeeds in scaling down her superstar personality to fit the dimensions of farce, giving us a character which is surprisingly appealing. Ryan O'Neal is even better in an equally tough assignment. He is charming as the unworldly professor, who finds himself lost in all the mayhem. With Bogdanovich directing with a lovely lightness of touch, both of them together manage to work up a kooky charm more befitting of the hippie-era of the early '70s. Also notable among the supporting cast is Miss Kahn, who in her utterly brilliant debut outing, just about walks off with the movie as O'Neal's impossibly square fiancée.If you miss the screwball classics of the early 30s, you owe it to yourself to watch this one. 'What's Up, Doc?' is sinfully enjoyable!

Barbara is the cute impish free-spirited daughter of a San Francisco judge: a knowledgeable perennial college dropout or expellee, who is arriving home on a plane. She inexplicably takes a strong interest in an absentminded young musicology professor(Ryan O'Neal) from the Midwest, also arriving on this plane with his nagging fiancé, Eunice, in pursuit of a grant for a very esoteric-sounding project(trying to prove that ancient man's first musical instruments were certain igneous rocks that make a tone when struck). Barbara causes a variety of traffic accidents in her initial pursuit of Ryan. She sees her chance when Ryan leaves Eunice outside to get some aspirin, when she begins her remarkably successful plan to worm her way into Ryan's life, eventually displacing Eunice. She checks into the hotel where Ryan + Eunice check in, along with two other parties who have overnight bags identical to those of Ryan and hers. The 4 bags, containing very different sets of items, get thoroughly mixed up by the incompetent bell boy, thus providing the basis for the remainder of this romantic comedy, in which the two get mixed up in the affairs of the others whose bags they have opened. Of course, after a variety of chases and mishaps , the two eventually become heroes, Eunice leaves Ryan, and Barbara secretly gets on the plane taking Ryan back to his college. It's all very contrived, of course,, but fun for the audience, if not for most of the characters. Liam Dunn, as Barbara's judge father, is a hoot, when the whole gang is brought into his courtroom to try to resolve their complaints about each other. He doesn't survive the experience!Incidentally, there are a few places around the world where rocks do ring when struck, and they are all igneous.If you like this sort of zany contrived screenplay, you might like an old 'made for TV' kung fu-spaghetti western hybrid farce , called "Blood Money", presently available as part of an 8 westerns DVD set. The 4 mixed up bags of the present film brought to mind the 4 sexy butts that were tattooed, in Chinese, each with partial instructions to finding a hidden treasure, in this slightly later film. Two teams(one good, one bad) compete to find the scattered women and find a way to gaining access to their butts.This film also somewhat reminds me of the well regarded Preston Sturges '41 film "Sullivan's Travels", in which Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake meet by chance and go on an unlikely odyssey.

I'm not sure what took me so long,but I finally gave this film a long overdue viewing.This film is drop dead hysterically funny and imagine this;not one ounce of vulgarity or profanity.It is a welcome modern era throwback to the old days of Hollywood where slapstick and one liners ruled.There is great chemistry in the cast,the comedy is perfectly timed,and though I am not normally a fan of Barbra Streisand,she looks great here.This film gets high marks from me and gets a long overdue placement amongst my favorite comedy films in cinema history.I highly recommend you see it,but don't blink! You are bound to miss a laugh or two.