Some Like It Hot Decades Collection-50s (1959)

Entertainment Weekly
"...[Monroe's] lighter than-air work remains a divine enhancement to one of the funniest movies ever..." 06/01/2001 p.67

Total Film
"...Elegant, sexy, energetic and side-slicingly funny, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the film all high-concept comedies want to be when they grow up..." 12/01/2000 p.109

Premiere
"Lemmon enacts one of moviedom's great comic creations." 04/01/2004 p.67

Entertainment Weekly
"Monroe's and Lemmon's finest two hours, and Curtis chip in a brutal Cary Grant impression." -- Grade: A- 07/21/2006 p.57

Empire
5 stars out of 5 -- "Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are enormously enjoyable....While Marilyn Monroe is a vision as wide-eyed love interest, Sugar." 09/01/2007 p.158

Reel.com 10 of 10
From its start with a police raid on Spats' speakeasy to its finish featuring one of the most famous lines of dialogue in movie history, Some Like It Hot delivers hilarity the way Spats' Tommy gun spits bullets: rat-a-tat-tat. This was a famously unhappy production with Wilder, Lemon, and Curtis having to deal with Monroe at her most physically and emotionally fragile, a state that resulted in countless retakes and numerous delays for the production. None of that is apparent on the screen that crackles with Wilder's energetic direction and Wilder and writing partner I.A.L. Diamond's sparking wit...The performances are seamless, as well...Monroe's performance perfectly blends innocence and sensuality and belies her off-screen emotional meltdown. Curtis deftly moves between his various personas, his Josephine more prim and ladylike than Lemmon's Daphne...There's a reason, though, why it was Lemmon who garnered most of the acting acclaim for the movie: his is a performance of such exquisite timing and barely concealed hysteria that the impulse to laugh is there even before he opens his mouth or moves a muscle. Comic acting doesn't get any better than this. - Pam Grady
 
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
What a work of art and nature is Marilyn Monroe. She hasn't aged into an icon, some citizen of the past, but still seems to be inventing herself as we watch her. She has the gift of appearing to hit on her lines of dialogue by happy inspiration, and there are passages in Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot" where she and Tony Curtis exchange one-liners like hot potatoes. Poured into a dress that offers her breasts like jolly treats for needy boys, she seems totally oblivious to sex while at the same time melting men into helpless desire...Wilder's 1959 comedy is one of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of inspiration and meticulous craft, a movie that's about nothing but sex and yet pretends it's about crime and greed...The movie has been compared to Marx Brothers classics, especially in the slapstick chases as gangsters pursue the heroes through hotel corridors. The weak points in many Marx Brothers films are the musical interludes--not Harpo's solos, but the romantic duets involving insipid supporting characters. "Some Like It Hot" has no problems with its musical numbers because the singer is Monroe, who didn't have a great singing voice but was as good as Frank Sinatra at selling the lyrics. - Roger Ebert