�Wildly entertaining� The first director to film rock �n� roll with the energy and flair it demanded.�
� Dave Kehr, The New York Times. Click here to read feature

�Every aspect of The Girl Can't Help It is at once secondhand and bigger than life� The garish acme of CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color, monumentally loud and blatantly exploitative � a veritable Parthenon of vulgarity� This satire of Elvis and Marilyn (or rather, of their clones) shimmers with radioactive pinks and cobalt blues.�
� J. Hoberman, The Village Voice. Click here to read feature

�Pure trash heaven� If Jayne Mansfield was an ersatz diamond, this setting is the closest she ever came to being treated like a real gem.�
� Charles Taylor, The New York Observer

(1956) �If that�s a girl, then I don�t know what my sister is!� Back from the pen, former King of the jukeboxes Edmond O�Brien�s bombastic Marty �Fats� Murdock (formerly Marty �Slim� Murdock) takes a break from sentimental viewings of home movies of his arrests to assign down-and-out PR man Tom Ewell (Marilyn Monroe�s Seven Year Itch foil) his toughest job: make Marty�s moll Jayne Mansfield a star! (�How can I marry a nobody?�) Only, aside from her physical assets � which can cause glasses to crack, ice to melt, and milk to boil � Mansfield at first seems to have no talent, especially alongside chart-busting acts like Little Richard, Gene Vincent (watch them drop those caps), The Platters, Fats Domino, and Julie London (�Cry Me a River�). But celebrity � and love? � do ensue when her one unique talent is discovered (not what you think). Hilarious satire of � you name it � from the unique mind of writer/director Frank Tashlin (�There�s nothing in the world to me that�s funnier than big breasts�), former Warner Bros. cartoon animator/director, who �took the outrageous, impossible humor of cartoons and connected it humanly to live action� (Peter Bogdanovich), along with a jaundiced view of 50s style icons, aided here by terrific comic turns from O�Brien, Ewell and, yes, Mansfield � who out- Monroes Monroe in a tour de farce performance. �More than a good film, more than a funny film, more than an excellent parody; it is a kind of masterpiece of the genre... it�s more beautiful and more successful each time you see it.� � Fran�ois Truffaut.
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