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Sadly Over-hyped

i must have seen a different film!!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

During a three year stretch, James Stewart made three comedies--three films that just didn't seem to suit his talents all that well. The problem with MR. HOBBES TAKES A VACATION, DEAR BRIGETTE and TAKE HER SHE'S MINE is that they all try too hard to be kooky. There is no subtlety about them and Stewart essentially plays the same befuddled role three different times. While none of these films are terrible, compared to his other wonderful films, they just seem to come up very short.TAKE HER SHE'S MINE begins with Stewart explaining to the local council about all the publicity he's recently received. So, in a long, long series of flashbacks, Stewart explains away potentially damaging news reports as just misunderstandings--all which incidentally occurred while he was following his daughter (Sandra Dee) at college because he was worried she would become a "loose woman". Again and again, he assumes she is much more of a libertine than she is, yet he ends up getting arrested on morals charges himself.While the idea of a worrying father having trouble letting go of his daughter is a clever idea, the execution and style leaves so much to be desired. Instead of great insight into a father's worries or simply making a clever film, too ofter the film degenerates towards kookiness and cheap laughs. In many ways, this movie looks and feels much more like a sitcom minus the annoying laugh-track.The bottom line is that Stewart was an amazing actor whose films are quite often brilliant and sublime. Sadly, not everything he made was gold and it's hard to imagine that just after making THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, he made these silly pieces of fluff. Watchable yet dopey.

It's been commented on by many critics that James Stewart has been the actor most partnered with top directors. His films with Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and Frank Capra have been studied over and over again. But it would surprise many to learn that after the eight he did with Anthony Mann, the second place finisher is Henry Koster with five films with James Stewart.The five films are Harvey, No Highway, Mr. Hobbs Goes On a Vacation, Dear Brigitte and Take Her She's Mine. And then they further subdivide as Stewart plays three types of character. He's the absent minded professor in No Highway and Dear Brigitte and the harassed father of girls in Mr. Hobbs and Take Her She's Mine. Both of which he plays to perfection. And of course there is Harvey in a class all by itself.Father is the last to know that his daughter has grown up to be a "dish." But that is in fact what Sandra Dee has done. Apparently just hanging around has put all the boys' hormones into an exponential overdrive. Poor Stewart is walking innocently into all kinds of grief trying to protect Dee's virtue. The California based Stewart's concern has taken him to New England and then to Paris.Some pretty funny things happen to poor Jimmy. But I think you'll like best the way his costume falls apart on a chartered boat in the Seine due to some bad advice that he gets from a fellow hotel guest Robert Morley. Still cracks me up 43 years after first seeing it.Audrey Meadows plays the patient wife and mother to Stewart and Dee borrowing a little from Alice Kramden. And I think today's audience will appreciate seeing Bob Denver essentially reprising his role as a Maynard G. Krebs type beatnik. Look for James Brolin in a tiny role as one of the hormonally charged college kids.Koster and Stewart work well together. Maybe at some point his partnership with Stewart will get some study as well.

Of the three comedies that my favorite actor James Stewart made for 20th Century Fox from 1962 to 1965, I like "Take Her, She's Mine" the best. The reason I do is because of all the trouble that Stewart's character, a lawyer/father/school board president named Frank Michaelson, inadvertently gets himself into. (If you have not yet seen this comedy, do not read any further!) Not the least of Frank's hassles is the fact that he is constantly being mistaken for James Stewart, an inside joke that I think is great! All of Frank's various bizarre actions appear in the newspapers, and he is forced to explain them to his school board, lest he be dismissed. The main gist of the whole mess is this: he merely wanted to make sure his teenage daughter Mollie (Sandra Dee) stays out of trouble when she goes to college and subsequently when she attends a Parisian art school.The three major newspaper stories, and the events leading up to them (as Frank explains to the school board in flashback), are nothing short of amusing. The first story involves Frank, Mollie, and other college kids fighting with cops at a sit-in to protest local censorship. The second story shows Frank being arrested by gendarmes at a Parisian bordello with a pretty young Chinese girl (Irene Tsu) clinging to him, when all he wanted to do was call a taxi! The third story shows Frank in his underwear jumping off a riverboat; he attends a masquerade party as Daniel Boone, in order to meet the parents of Mollie's lover Henri Bonnet (Philippe Forquet), but Frank's costume rips apart! Here are just a couple of other memorable highlights from "Take Her, She's Mine." While Frank, his wife Anne (Audrey Meadows), and their younger daughter Liz (Charla Doherty) listen to Mollie's demo record, a boy's voice on the recording can be heard saying, "Hey, take it off, baby!" And Frank raises the ire of Mollie's Parisian roommates when he asks them a rather personal question about their doings."Take Her, She's Mine" may not have been a big box office success, but it is still, in my opinion, an entertaining comedy. James Stewart does as well as could be expected and is quite funny. Watch for Bob Denver in a supporting role as well!

An all around fun movie from a time when they didn't have to rely on foul language, sex, and violence for their plots. I had never seen Sandra Dee in anything other than her Gidget roles. Wish they made movies like that today - a comedy that was actually funny. :)