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So much average

Brilliant and touching

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This film has been described as being charming, and it is to a point. There is also a welcome (if unintentional) quaintness to it, considering that it was shot between June and October 1963, before Beatlemania and the assassination of President Kennedy. By the time of the film's release, those social and political events had changed the world markedly.Although the friendship between the girls starts out fresh and interesting, it progressively becomes silly and tiresome, with much energy waisted on contrived vignettes that don't lead anywhere. Their dynamic serves as a template for later and better girl-buddy pictures like "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows" and "The Trouble With Angels"While on the subject of waisted, the then red-hot Peter Sellers seems painfully underutilized here. Ditto for the wonderfully ditsy Paula Prentiss. I couldn't help but wonder if his presence here was dictated only because he 'owed' someone a picture. The one glowing exception is the fantastic concert segment which is hysterically funny in its droll subtlety and its send-up of avant garde artistic expression. His other potentially funny scenes, especially those with Prentis, come off like jokes without punch lines. The remaining adult cast, featuring Angela Lansbury among others, is good in its own competent way.One great unexpected joy of the film was its many scenes of a beautiful and mostly vacant New York City. Having never lived there and seldom visited, this viewer still was very taken by the evocative cityscapes which wonderfully saturate this film. For me, this is where the real charm of the film comes through.

From the director of Butch Cassidy & The Sting, Director Hill does a good job with the photography here. While this is a good solid film, the script could have been better. Still this is a worth while film to view.Peter Sellers is Henry Orient, a classic pianist who appears to be messing up his work because he is being distracted by Paula Prentiss. The towering Paula is a great distraction & his lack of practice at the keys begins upsetting audiences. I would have loved being distracted by Prentiss.The main story is of two young girls who are musically inclined, develop a crush on Henry & follow him all over town. This stalking is presented as perfectly harmless though more than once they catch Henry & Paula in the position. There is a strong supporting cast here including Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley, Al Lewis and others who add to the quality of the film. When the film concentrates on the main story, which is a coming of age story of two young girls & how their problems are handled by the parents who are split themselves, the story is very good. There is plenty of humor too. Once in a while, the film gets side tracked by a couple of minor plots. That is where the film weakens a bit. Still, seeing this cast & laughing at & with Peter Sellers is a very entertaining way to watch a movie.

A truly lovely and engaging film, with surprisingly real and complex characters anchored in the perceptive viewpoints of adolescents -- their joys, confusions and hurts, paving the way for future joys, confusions and hurts. This is a remarkable film with countless moments to cherish--the adults with all their foibles, inconsistencies, concerns real or selfish--and those two girls exploring the world with wonderment and imagination born of exuberant discovery and painful denial. The feelings are so complex--it is often playful fun, but with a tinge of bittersweet wisdom that pervades practically every frame of the film. And New York. For those that love New York City, this film is a must. Filmed over 40 years ago--it is a joy to see all the familiar, beloved landmarks as they looked before. Only Woody Allen has filmed NYC with as much loving detail. From the opening scene on the East River where the girls first meet, to their first romp through the glories of Central Park (The Bow Bridge never has looked more elegant and graceful--and the Rambles never more wild and rustic), Park Avenue in the snow with the Christmas tree lights all glowing (truly capturing the magic of NYC at holiday time)--to surprising scenes of Carnegie Hall, and the wonderful Greenwich Village neighborhoods with their charming mews and meandering streets. How appropriate that the girls' discoveries should take place in this beautiful, complex city. One final comment--Elmer Bernstein's film score is a sheer delight-befitting this delicate, but profound story--bathing the film in a musical glow as beautiful as New York City.

"They don't make 'em like this anymore." Well, thank God they don't! The World of HO is... well, I certainly wish the real title were that! Might have been an interesting movie, if nothing. Anyway...TWO HO is an extremely dull affair. This is strictly for fans of sweetity-sweet schmaltzy "humour" i.e. the kind of embarrassingly unfunny material released in theaters on an almost daily basis in the 50s and 60s. If you're a fan of intelligent humour you should stay away from this snooze-fest. It might literally bore you to death. If, on the other hand, "The Sound Of Music" made you laugh, dig in! 100 minutes of pure tedium. I SUFFERED, but I survived to tell the tale. Heed this advice lest you too get suckered into thinking that a Peter Sellers movie can't be all that bad. He had made a string of 60s turkeys, post-Panther, and this one might be the loudest gobbler of them all. A turkey to end all turkeys.Everything about the title is misleading. Peter Sellers is Henry Orient, yet he is merely a marginal, supporting character in this supremely pointless story. The movie is not about Henry's world. (And it isn't about two HOs, sadly...) The main protagonists are two pre-adolescent girls who will bore you to tears with their stereotypical old-school Hollywood "magical friendship" (that's probably what Leonard Maltin or Roger Ebert would call it), which is exemplified by sophomoric fantasizing: plenty of very unfunny gags here.I would even go as far as to say that if you found the banter between the girls funny or amusing that you need help from a movie shrink. That's a special type of psychiatrist who specializes in people who aren't able to distinguish between good and bad celluloid quality. (A bit like a paranoiac who can't tell who he is friends and enemies are.) I would like to understand exactly what the writer of this crap thought was funny about the girls pretending to be Jayne Mansfield's kids. But that's just one of several really bad sub-plots here. Ha-ha hilarious. The World of HO makes any Jimmy Stewart comedy seem hysterically funny by comparison. Sellers is totally wasted, and even his accent is all over the place. Where is he supposed to be from? I have no clue. Angela Lansbury is cast as a femme fatale of sorts, which really says it all about the taste of the director (or whoever chose her). "Crap, She Wrote".This is the typical sort of asinine comedy in which the kids are all very bright and the adults nearly all buffoons. That's a sure-fire formula for creating garbage. I would single out the last 20-30 minutes as being particularly pointless and monotonous. At this point this "comedy" drifts off lazily into family drama of the Z-movie category.The comments written about TWO HO are remarkable. One person wrote that this is "the best teenage-girlfriend movie ever made". That's like saying "this little porker is the best eight-legged pig with wings we've ever had", or "this is the best trip to the Moon I've ever been to." Not that I'd compare TWO HO with flying to the moon, mind you… It's more like a trip to the land of torturous slumber.