
Dino, the charming and lecherous Las Vegas singer, stops for gas on his way to Hollywood in Climax, Nevada. The oily gas station attendant is Barney Millsap, a would-be lyricist who writes pop songs with Orville Spooner, the local piano teacher. By disabling Dino's car, Barney contrives a scheme to have Dino sing one of their songs on an upcoming TV special. To entertain Dino, Barney contacts the village tart, Polly, employing her to pretend to be Orville's wife, Zelda, for a... (Full plot summary below)
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Dino, the charming and lecherous Las Vegas singer, stops for gas on his way to Hollywood in Climax, Nevada. The oily gas station attendant is Barney Millsap, a would-be lyricist who writes pop songs with Orville Spooner, the local piano teacher. By disabling Dino's car, Barney contrives a scheme to have Dino sing one of their songs on an upcoming TV special. To entertain Dino, Barney contacts the village tart, Polly, employing her to pretend to be Orville's wife, Zelda, for a night. She doesn't like Dino, but does love being Orville's surrogate wife. Dino goes to a bar, where he meets the real Zelda, and they spend the night together while Polly spends it with Orville.
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| VarietyVariety StaffWilder, usually a director of considerable flair and inventiveness -- has not been able this time out to rise above a basically vulgar, as well as creatively delinquent, screenplay... |
| Chicago ReaderDon DrukerIn any event, this has to rank as Wilder's most corrosive and despairing portrait of America. |
| The DissolveScott TobiasThough Kiss Me, Stupid has the structure and comic beats of a classic bedroom farce, it's an overwhelmingly cynical assessment of male jealousy and exploitation. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames SanfordWhat separates 'Stupid' from so many of the so-called 'sex comedies' of the period is its combination of cynicism and directness. Beneath the teasing and the titillation there are some genuinely provocative themes... |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenUndeniably lewd, Kiss Me, Stupid exemplifies the go-go Rat Pack sexual sensibilities that fed the American appetite in the dawn of the sexual revolution. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzWhatever ambitions this romantic comedy might have had, they were never realized. |
| New TimesAndy KleinIt just doesn't get very good until halfway through, in large part because the usually excellent Walston is miscast. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewCharacteristically cynical, clever and brash, it's helped out enormously by the performances of Martin, Farr and (particularly) Novak... |
| Film Geek CentralAustin KennedyBeing a HUGE Wilder fan, I can honestly say that this was a HUGE disappointment. I'd rather watch this than say, BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE 2, but I expected something much better from a director as talented as Wilder. |
| User ReviewLisa GAwesome! Ray Walston, Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Cliff Osmond - all perfect! I guess it was contraversal at the time. I can see why. It's a little uncomfortable, but I think that's why I like it so much. |