Title: Obnoxious bore parading as razor-sharp wit
Product review: I'm a lover of many old classic B & W film comedies: Adam's Rib, Bringing Up Baby,and The Philadelphia Story, to name a few. I was really looking forward to seeing The Man Who Came To Dinner--until I did. I didn't think the main character's wit was funny, but rather contrived wit that was obnoxious and boring.And the owners of the house were a couple of doormats--the wife fawning to the critic, while the husband didn't have the guts to stand up to either one.After about 45 minutes of it, I couldn't take any more and stopped the film--so I can't say this review is completely fair since I didn't watch the whole thing. But I've seen thousands of films and I can say from experience that if I don't like a film after 45 minutes, 99% of the time I won't like the rest of it.This may have been funny stuff in 1942. If it was, it didn't age well.
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