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Thursday, 10 March 2022

Plaza Suite (1971)


 

Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.

From memory:​ I saw this movie for the first time at the Radio City Music Hall in NYC in 1971, complete with a Rockettes performance before the screening, days before we emigrated to Germany via ship. At the time I thought this comedy was hilarious and entertaining, However, years later, I saw it again, and the comedy was rather flat, the episodes continuously less funny and relying more and more on rough slapstick moments.

Halliwell*: "A highly theatrical entertainment which was bound to seem flattened on the screen, but emerges with at least some of its laughs intact."

Maltin***: "One of Neil Simon's funniest comedies well adapted to screen. Best one is the last [episode]..."