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5/10
The girls may be a 10 but the movie is no better than a "5" rating
Ed-Shullivan3 November 2018
Just one of oh so many of those not so funny comedy capers where the guys (Robert Morse, Robert Goulet and the big boss Keenan Wynn) are trying to enjoy some harmless cheap flings and cheat on their significant others, all the while their significant others seem to always be a step behind these clumsy men.

Eventually the three (3) men and their significant others (Nancy Kwan, Elvia Allman, and Chris Noel) all end up in the same hotel suite with a very tipsy and very hot looking Jill St. John and the boys have some explaining to do.

The movie is quite boring and with very plastic acting. I wouldn't recommend it even though everyone seems to end up happy at the Honeymoon Hotel.

A 5 out of 10 rating
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5/10
A waste of a great cast
gbill-748771 April 2021
A 60's sex farce with little charm, mainly because the male characters are so unlikeable. Robert Goulet plays a guy who deliberately prevents his friend (Robert Morse) from reconciling with his fiancée so that he can try to score with a woman he's fallen for (Nancy Kwan). His boss comes to the same place with one of his lovers, and both his boss's wife and his friend's fiancée show up, thus setting off mayhem/musical chairs as the horny men try to not to get caught with the wrong women.

To its credit, the film's interracial romance is presented as any other, but it's hard to understand why Kwan's character would be attracted to Goulet's, and certainly hard to root for him. Jill St. John plays the lover and she does what she can, but her character is so ditzy and her big moment ends up being running into a plate glass window with her breasts. And then of course, the wife and fiancée characters are shrews. Kwan gets a scene to show off some dance moves, which was one of the few highlights. Also look for Elsa Lanchester as the chambermaid, and note the apartment set was the same used in 'Sunday in New York' a year earlier.
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6/10
goofy bedroom farce... in a bedroom!
ksf-211 March 2021
When Jay's wedding doesn't go off as planned, he takes the best man on the vacation to the Boca Roca Hotel, which is for married couples only. Robert Morse (a year before The Loved One!) is Jay Menlow, and his buddy is Ross, played by the dashing Robert Goulet. running around in a towel. Lots of silly doubletakes and looks by the hotel staff, played by Bernard Fox and Elsa Lanchester. Jill St. John is Sherry, who swishes and sways through the whole movie... she's drunk most of the time, and doesn't seem to know or care with whom she ends up. keep an eye out for Sandra Gould from bewitched.. she's the hotel operator. it's all very predictable; a bedroom farce, where the men keep almost getting busted. this one even has Ross' boss ending up at the same hotel, complicating things even more. pretty silly. not much chemistry between the players. and some bits go on WAY too long.. the kaluga dance on the patio (was juliet prouse busy that day? ) Film directed by Henry Levin. fun fact: Lanchester was married to Charles Laughton for thirty years.
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3/10
Vapid, typical 1960's sex farce about two men who mistakenly check into a hotel for honeymooners.
cricket-146 May 1999
This is also Robert Goulet's movie debut. He and Robert Morse go to a "honeymoon hotel" where all the other guests are young and presumably heterosexual, newlywed couples.

Of course being made in 1964, the possible gay overtones of two single men sharing a hotel room are barely hinted at.

Nancy Kwan adds a little fun but otherwise the movie is mediocre. If nothing else is on it might be worth watching instead of taking a sleeping pill.
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2/10
Empty-Headed Sex Comedy From the 60s
gregorybmowery11 January 2021
Honeymoon Hotel came on my TCM channel today via Hulu. I was answering email when I looked up. My jaw dropped. The apartment swinging bachelors, Robert Goulet and Robert Morse, are sharing is the exact same set used in an MGM movie a few years earlier: Sunday in New York (a far better film). The efficiency kitchen is a step-down from the living room, and the spiral stair case leading to the bedroom. Check. There's even a brief moment with a look inside the living room closet where Jane Fonda hung her mother's bathrobe to ward off amorous suitors. Only a year separates the two films. I purposely went to the "Did You Know?" section of Honeymoon Hotel page to see if anyone else noticed, and indeed they have. Only one year separates these two movies--Sunday in New was released in 1963. MGM must have really felt a budget crunch by then.

Anyway, this film just gets more tired and predictable as it goes along. Poor Robert Goulet--this was his film debut. Robert Morse had already made one prior film to this. I'll bet both wish they hadn't landed in this picture. I love Jill St. John. She's gorgeous, and can play the dumb redhead in her sleep. (she has a fantastically high IQ). But this movie doesn't ask anything more than to wear tight dresses and act like a really dumb readhead. The wink-wink gay subtext is offensively applied with a trowel here.
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1/10
The absolute worst....
tles713 September 2018
Unbelievable that this is what they came up with as a debut for the two talented Broadway stars. My God, universally ripped apart by the critics of the day. It's a painfully embarrassing display of bad direction and a bad script. OUCH!!!
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6/10
some fun screwball sex comedy
SnoopyStyle22 November 2022
Hen-pecked Jay Menlow (Robert Morse) is marrying Cynthia Hampton. He and his womanizing friend Ross Kingsley (Robert Goulet) are caught commenting on other women. She cancels the wedding. Ross convinces him to go on the honeymoon anyways. The two guys arrive at the Boca Roca Hotel, but it's strictly for honeymooners only. The hotel insists on it. Ross is taken with social director Lynn Jenley (Nancy Kwan) and refuses to leave. She happens to be Cynthia's friend. Jay starts to crack, but Ross sabotages his reconciliation with Cynthia. Ross needs more time chasing Lynn.

I really like this movie until a certain point in the middle. I don't like what Lynn does after finding out Ross. There are many ways to get revenge on him. She picks the wrong path. It's not vicious enough. I would suggest stealing his big black book and start wrecking havoc on his life. It goes down the wrong path and the story thread comes to a dead end. This has some fun as a screwball sex comedy. More importantly, it has an inter-racial romance without making a big deal out of it. It does have some issues, but it is still good light fun.
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1/10
Goulet's screen debut is forgettably bad as is this movie.
BigWhiskers13 March 2012
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Caught this movie on TCM of all places - sometimes that channel really misses the mark in what it calls classics. If only for the screen debut of Goulet probably who is given a part that would make anyone look bad. Along with Morse,Kwan and for some reason a useless part played by Wynn round out this love boat type comedy garbage. The plot involves Morse who ditches his bride at the altar(cold feet and she a major B) and so he decides to go on the honeymoon anyway if just to get away from all this wedding mess and takes Goulet along with him. When they get to the Honeymoon Hotel to their dismay they find out that the hotel is only supposed to accommodate married couples. Needless to say Kwan is the only single girl there who just happens to also be the social director of the hotel and Goulet schemes to get with her while keeping Morse off guard in all these cornball subplots of him doing things that any normal person would have been wise to and caught him red handed. Then we have Keenan Wynn who really only shows up to collect a check , I think he has like 15 minutes of screen time if that and the subplot of him fooling around with young bimbo St John just to play the musical chairs routine with hiding her from his wife and getting her in the middle of Goulet ,Kwan and Morse another lame attempt to try and get some laughs. In the end Morse finally gets wise to his domineering conceited ex fiancé played irritatingly by Anne Helm who is nothing more than 5 minutes of enabling bitchiness when she's on screen,well he ends up dumping her thank god while Goulet gets Kwan and blackmails Wynn to get a better salary and office to keep his mouth shut about St John who in turn ends up with Morse in the bachelor pad. At 90 minutes this movie is over mercifully fast and in one critics review that I read from 1964- He said" The only thing the script gives them is enough rope with which to hang themselves. And they do so, in their desperation. Mercifully, they are cut down before they expire" I couldn't have said it better. Bomb 1/10
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2/10
Too silly, and too 'bimbo-ish'
HotToastyRag30 April 2022
Only the silliest of the silly need register at the Honeymoon Hotel, a ridiculously dated 1964 comedy starring Robert Goulet and Robert Morse, two entertainers who only made a handful of movies. Neither one of them sings in it, but even if it had been turned into a musical, it still probably wouldn't have been saved. I sat through it for Nancy Kwan, Goulet's main love interest.

Jilted before his wedding, Morse and his best man Goulet decide to go on the honeymoon anyway, since it's all been paid for. At the very least, they'll have a good time and pick up a girl or two - but they failed to realize it was a honeymoon-only hotel. Every couple besides them (cue endless '60s jokes about two men sharing a room) are married, so good luck finding any women. There is Nancy, though, a fitness instructor, and Goulet catches on quick. She's very cute with her "Kwan bob" and shows off her figure with swimsuits and minidresses. Determined to show her up (but failing to do so) is Jill St. John, once again playing an unbelievably stupid bimbo. Whenever I see her in a movie, I stifle my frustration at her terrible acting and focus on the greater problem at hand: that Hollywood continued to write such characters she could play. Why hasn't every feminist in the country written her dissertation on St. John's insulting piece-of-meat characters and how they set back women's rights for years? Even Marilyn Monroe played more realistic roles.

But, if you absolutely love St. John, Kwan, both Roberts, Keenan Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, and Anne Helm, you can try this movie. You might not get all the way through it, but you can try it.
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8/10
Looking at this movie in a new light ...
tforbes-214 February 2011
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I first saw this movie in 1981 in Syracuse, and it was at that time simply one of the movies Jill St. John made. Very lightweight material that was designed for summer viewing.

Fast forward almost 30 years later, and it's Robert Morse I take notice of. Thanks to "Mad Men," this movie gains a certain retro appeal. That is compounded by Jill St. John's presence. Here, she really resembles Christina Hendricks, and it is so ironic.

Mind you, it remains a lightweight movie. Even as the movie has not aged terribly well, much worse movies have been made since 1981, so maybe it's not so awful after all. Anyway, the performers are well worth watching!
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5/10
Only married heteros
bkoganbing23 January 2019
A couple of Broadway names, Robert Goulet from Camelot and Robert Morse from How To Succeed In Business, star in Honeymoon Hotel in an attempt to make film stars of both. The two never did become box office together or separately.

Poor Bobby Morse gets jilted at the altar, but best man Goulet decides since we've got our reservations at a Honeymoon Hotel in the Carribean. Of course in those days before same sex marriage they have their problems. Goulet has an agenda, he's pursuing his boss's side dish Jill St. John. The boss is Keenan Wynn and you can't blame him for his indiscretion being married to harriden Elvia Allman.

Bob and Bob try an awful lot to get that Bing and Bob effect, but it doesn't go over quite so well with them. The Dorothy Lamour of the piece is hotel recreation director Nancy Kwan who has some real nice moves on the dance floor.

But one should never pass up an opportunity to see Jill St.John playing one of her patented bimbos.

Nice film, but Goulet and Morse will never be Crosby and Hope.
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