Review of The More the Merrier

The movie started very promising, a fun, funny comedy. But somewhere along the line it lost its way, and became ponderous and gloomy, in a way that didn't really make much sense. Some of the other reviews here have gone into that in detail, and they are spot on right, so I won't go through it again. I will just underscore that I quite agree that it makes no sense that the couple goes through with a "fake" marriage after already having declared their love and desire for a real one. It's just head-scratchingly odd, and not at all enjoyable. Seems like all that was contrived just to make the final scene work, but it really wasn't worth it.

Still, Mr. Dingle was a fun character (even if I didn't entirely understand his motivations throughout. Why was he *so* interested in being Mr. Matchmaker?). Conny is rather amusing with her ultra-anal schedule, a side of her which unfortunately isn't really carried through much beyond that scene. There's more to like than dislike in this film. But it doesn't deliver on its initial promise and could've been a whole lot better.

I totally agree with the review here that lists a bunch of superior comedies, and I am indebted to that reviewer, because I've never seen some of them and intend to do so (given the high quality of the ones on the list I *have* seen).

I can only scratch my head at the reviewers here who gave it 9 or 10 stars and thought it was absolutely hilarious. It wasn't.