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06/24/06
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:6
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Mansfield's first starring role is as the outrageously voluptuous but tone-deaf girlfriend of a retired racketeer. He hires a talent agent to transform her into a movie star and they fall in love.... [More]
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Tom Ewell, Julie London
Director: Frank Tashlin
Reviews for The Girl Can't Help It
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03/26/09
Top CriticA veritable Parthenon of vulgarity and a supremely unfunny comedy that is pure eau de Fifty-Six.
08/22/06
Not one of Tashlin's better efforts.
08/11/06
Years before Kenneth Anger, Frank Tashlin located the decadent Babylon in Hollywood and found it not that different from the splashy Looney Tunes bonanzas he used to fashion during his salad days as an animator.
08/08/06
Sure, the scenery is splashy and sporty in color and CinemaScope. But the show is as meager and witless as a cheap pin-up magazine joke.
03/25/06
Top CriticNo review available.
06/29/05
Wild combination of cartoonish farce with seminal rock performances. Those milk bottles!
08/15/04
Tashlin demonstrated an innate knowledge of the capacties offered by the Cinescope canvas.
03/10/03
It's a great looking great sounding movie.
12/08/02
Tashlin's savage lampoon of American notions of success and fulfillment is hilarious and genuinely appealing.
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