That Funny Feeling

"That Funny Feeling" doesn't by any means test the acting capabilities of Darin, or the glamour of Dee, but it is nonetheless a delightful, funny, and even colorful, film. As a bemused and confused victim of "Joan"'s bizarre method of dealing with an unacceptable home address. There are some great visuals, Darin climbing out of the upstairs window to avoid a confrontation in his own apartment with "Joan", the phone booth scene, the moment when he gets in the cab and in answer to the question, "where to?" simply says, "I don't know." Darin and co-star Sandra Dee look great together - no wonder that happened! And it is always fun to see Donald O'Connor too. I'd have loved to hear more songs from Darin, but the plot just didn't call for them. The title song is a very catchy, though. It is a movie that takes me back to what was best in the '60's - innocent fun and romance with humor and charm.

That Funny Feeling is a delightful, up-beat, cute, funny, and entertaining film. Out-dated for sure, but the movie captures a more innocent time(the early 1960s), when getting a kiss was a big deal. Sandra Dee is at her most beautiful. She was so lovely, so attractive; this role was meant for her. She gives a great performance. Bobby Darren sings the opening song and gives an equally great performance. You can see the sparks fly between these two "real-life" love-birds. Any fan of Sandra or Bobby will enjoy this light-hearted romantic tale.

This is a great movie to watch on a rainy night with someone you are romantically involved with.

Joan Howell (Sandra Dee) is an aspiring actress and questionable maid. She is supposed to be cleaning the apartment of Tom Milford (Bobby Darin). She doesn't expect him to be home and never met him before. When he asks her out, she tries to pass off his apartment as her own. He decides to play along.

This stars the real life married couple, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin. They are so wholesome. They fit this light comedy although it only taps on the funny bone. I wouldn't say that either are great comedic actors. The side characters get a bit closer to the laughs. The premise is a sitcom with less realism. Depending on the value of the paintings, this is either unrealistic to downright stupid. Well, I guess that they're not his paintings.

The premise is simple.. a cutesy cleaning-maid lies about owning the apartment she takes care of.. to the owner of said apartment.

It is a pleasingly old-fashioned quaint little story of silly deception and romance, with charming characters and decent dialogue, and maybe some dated elements. It isn't particularly hilarious or memorable, but it is fun enough to give it a chance. And more than a cinematic experience, it feels like watching television. Specially since there's one development, and this one-track script suffers a bit in the pacing department. But it makes do with a somewhat unexpected ending.

That Funny Feeling marked the last film that husband and wife Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin made together. Soon after this they split, but the passion was so strong they never remarried.

I'm thinking that around this time Rock Hudson was getting set to depart from Universal and I'm sure the studio thinking was that Darin and Dee could step right into the shoes of Hudson and Doris Day. Ten years earlier Rock and Doris would have made this film no doubt about it.

Sandra lives in a cracker box apartment with her friend Nita Talbot when she meets man about town Darin. Among other things Dee does to make the rent is clean apartments and she cleans Darin's though she never met him. Not knowing who he is, she pretends that his apartment is her's while Darin is supposed to be away on business.

The business he's on is trying to protect and hide the assets of his boss Donald O'Connor in the Tony Randall role, to wit some modern art paintings, hideous to some, valuable to others from being part of a divorce settlement. After this film gets positively zany in the Rock and Doris tradition.

O'Connor has some of the best lines in the film. I suppose had the Rock&Doris type comedies stayed in vogue O'Connor might have had a second career in these parts. A lot of other familiar faces dot the supporting cast, again like a Rock and Doris flick.

Darin even sings the title song over the credits of That Funny Feeling. What more could you want?