The Glass Bottom Boat

The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 72% of users liked it
    (4,478 ratings)

The Glass Bottom Boat is hardly a high point in the careers of star Doris Day and director Frank Tashlin, though it is a better-than-usual example of that pure-'60s genre, the "spy spoof." Day plays Jennifer Nelson, a PR worker at NASA in Florida. She also doubles as a "mermaid" for her father, Axel… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.
Directed By
Frank Tashlin
Written By
Everett Freeman
Genres
Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Jun 9, 1966 Wide
On DVD
Apr 26, 2005

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    It's just a wonderfully stupid comedy.

  • Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

    pretty thin

  • Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

    I'd like to presume that Lynde is removing lipstick from his teeth, and not Robert Wagner's short curlies.

  • Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

    The film flails airlessly, not unlike Day herself when she's mistakenly locked inside Taylor's anti-gravity prototype.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    Yes, there is a glass bottom boat in the movie, in case you were wondering! But it is a romantic comedy, not a boat adventure movie or anything like that. It's a really silly comedy, sometimes too much so, but overall it's enjoyable.

  • jay n


    not doris' best but far from her worst.

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