Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

gavin6942 After five years lost at sea, a missing wife (Doris Day) thought long dead returns just after her husband (James Garner) remarries.For the first half of this film, we have what amounts to more or less your typical romantic comedy of the era: a man and his wife trying to reconcile after five years, with some big obstacles in their way. Hilarity ensues, and fans of Day and Garner will love it.Then comes a bit of a plot twist, which turns up the heat... and we get to see Don Knotts in a much-too-small role. How will things turn out when we find that the wife has more than a few secrets of her own? And is it even worth trying to make things work at that point?

U.N. Owen Yes, this is the remake of My Favorite Wife - an excellent comedy.It is also a remake of what was to have been Marilyn Monroe's (last) picture; Something's Got To Give.While I doubt SGTG would've gone down as one of Marilyn's best, it definitely held out promise - for both the RomCom genre, and, for Marilyn's career.A big mistake (initally passed down by 20th Century Fox) was how/why Marilyn was terminated, etc.A little known fact was Marilyn WAS rehired to finish the film - and was looking forward to it.Saying that as a preamble, the reason I get a little misty seeing MOD, is I'm very familiar with the stuff MArilyn & co. shot - on the same (some, slightly redressed) sets that Doris & co. use.Scenes that Marilyn played (VERY well!) with a natural femininity (and motherliness) that, while definitely sexy, were NOT 'act sexy' if you get my meaning.One scene in particular, is when Marilyn mets her children (in SGTG, a boy & girl, and in MID 2 girls).Marilyn actually almost brings tears to my eyes when she played the scene, because her interaction with the children was so sincere, so maternal, it was really something to see.In MOD, it's played in a typical 'Doris' style (and, I'm NOT taking ANYTHING away from Ms. Day. I LOVE her!): a bit of silliness, and, the 'sexy' part toned down.If you're familiar with SGTG, then you can play theses comparisons in several scenes - the other being Marilyn/Doris as the masseuse, and Mariyn/Doris at the shoe store (Wit one of my all-time favorite double entendres - Marilyn asking Wally Cox to have lunch with him, and he says he eats lunch in, to which Marilyn says she'd be 'so grateful if he'd take it out.' In each of them, you can see the two women in a rare moment of comparison.I think Doris was put in MOD, and proved herself a real trooper, as this project had such 'stigma' attached to it, and I think she does the best she can.While I can see (and agree) with the comparisons others have given MOD to MFW, I try to look at this not through those eyes, but, through the eyes of what might've been, and what was.A good 1hour 21min of Doris fun.

bkoganbing Move Over Darling with James Garner and Doris Day which is a remake of the RKO classic My Favorite Wife is probably better known for being the end result of the disaster known as Something's Gotta Give. That of course is Marilyn Monroe's legendary last film that she never finished.Looking over the cast of the unfinished Something's Gotta Give I have to say though I don't think it would have been Monroe's greatest film, the rest of the cast was pretty good. When 20th Century Fox fired Marilyn, Dean Martin also quit and the whole film was scrapped. At that point it was just decided to redo the whole thing with an entire new cast and apparently no one survived the change.I also imagine that a serious rewrite would have to be done in order that a role originally cast for Marilyn Monroe could fit Doris Day. Seeing Doris on the screen I can't imagine that Chuck Connors or in Marilyn's case, Tom Tryon, would have been unsuccessfully trying to catch her on a desert island for five years.The story as originally written by Sam and Bella Spewack has James Garner going to court to get his first wife, missing for five years after a forced ocean landing, declared legally dead. He wants to marry Polly Bergen. But wouldn't you know it, a Navy submarine rescues Doris Day at just that time and when she hears about Garner's new bride, it's Doris off to spoil that honeymoon.Polly Bergen was just great as the picture of sexual frustration on that honeymoon. Although I can certainly see Cyd Charisse in that same spot with Dean Martin. Edgar Buchanan is great as the crusty judge who declares Doris legally dead the first time and then has all the parties and then some in court to try and untangle things. That role was supposed to go to John McGiver and certainly those two would have been different types.It goes that way up and down the cast list, Don Knotts substituting for Wally Cox as the timid shoe salesman Doris has impersonate Chuck Connors so Garner won't be jealous. And I can't see much difference with Phil Silvers as opposed to John Astin as the smarmy insurance man. One thing I did notice is that there was no equivalent parts in Something's Gotta Give for Fred Clark the hotel manager and Thelma Ritter as Garner's mother. My guess is that whoever was supposed to play those roles may never have got on camera because there was no way to shoot around them.I suppose the best thing to do is not speculate, but enjoy the funny comedy that did come out of all the grief 20th Century Fox had with this film. Certainly only Doris Day could convince you that in five years she never succumbed to Chuck Connors.

edwagreen Absolutely hysterical film dealing with a guy, James Garner, who remarries only to find out that very day that first wife, Doris Day, has survived a plane crash in the jungle and has come home to him.Polly Bergen is just sensational as the 2nd wife caught up in all the mayhem.James Garner, who costarred with Day later on in "The Thrill of It All," is very good here as the victimized husband who may very well have an ax to grind himself. What was Day doing all those years on an island with Chuck Connors?The picture also allowed a re-teaming of Day with Thelma Ritter from 1959's "Pillow Talk." The always wonderful Ritter fits in beautifully in the mother-in-law role.Acting kudos to Edgar Buchanan as the harried judge and to Fred Clark, the hotel guy who must put up with the antics of Garner, Day and Bergen in the hotel. Day must have taken lessons from Loretta Young in giving an authentic Swedish accent in several scenes. Going Swedish gave Loretta a 1947 Oscar for "The Farmer's Daughter." Too bad that Garner, Day, Bergen and Buchanan were not considered for Oscars.