Everyone raves about this movie, and after watching it, I can't understand why. I also don't understand why people like Woody Allen movies either, so that may have something to do with it. Andy Rooney doesn't make it any better. Hepburn does a great job, as does Peppard.

Many of us have known or have even been in love with someone like Golightly, and Paul's frustration throughout is very well-done. A movie with a more complex female lead was a great advancement in 1961, so I applaud them for that, but I don't think this movie stands up today like it did in 1961.

There is a little bit of comedy that's not racist (like the lady's hat catching fire from the cigarette holder), but it's nothing at which I would laugh out loud.

The whole situation with Tomato is pointless - they get arrested for one scene and are immediately released - it just seems like they did that to force her hand and end the movie. Moon River isn't that great of a song (Somewhere Over the Rainbow is WAY better), some of the overacting is annoying, Yunioshi is extremely off-putting, the plot is rather boring (boy meets girl, she's weird and misguided, she won't love him, he finally changes her and loves him all of a sudden), the ending is rather unbelievable (people like Golightly rarely change in an instant), and the part about her being a child bride is creepy and also rather outdated (except maybe in Utah?). The movie would actually have been a lot better if she had told the cabbie to go to the airport, remaining stubborn, and would have left a much stronger impression in 1961. But, in the end, she's just another female who needs a motivational speech and jewelry to be broken, and that just ruins it for me.

This is a movie that I would recommend everyone watch once as a curiosity, but I don't think it deserves a lot of the praise it gets these days. Sure, it's iconic for its impact on culture, fashion, women, etc. but that doesn't mean it's objectively high quality. I like many older movies better than this and many new ones better, and I've cared a lot more about the characters in other movies as well, which was really missing here. I can appreciate it as an artifact of 1961, but I won't be watching it again.

This is such a charming film and story, with a great love story and one of the most iconic protagonists of all time. It's just really sweet, and it made me so happy when watching it. That said, I'm so torn between giving it a 9 or an 8 because I'm soooo in love with the movie up until the moment where they sleep together, but everything that happens after that felt weird and Paul's whole "you belong to me" thing was incredibly off-putting, but I guess you have to try and contextualise these movies within the time they were made. I can't help but feel like he had a weird personality change tho, from caring and understanding, to possessive and unkind. It reminds me of that typical male character trope where they're only nice to women so they can get them naked, and if they don't put out, they turn gross and angry. But, I guess, if you try to look at it from the perspective of Holly being scared of love, because she has never truly experienced it before, and if you interpret "you belong to me" more as "you belong with me" or "we belong together", which I genuinely think was the intention in the film, then the weird attitude and slightly unnerving ending can be forgiven. I'll just have to see how I feel about it after a while.

Audrey Hepburn is at the top of her game as the dysfunctional socialite "Holly" who takes a bit of a shine to the rather staid "Paul" (George Peppard) who has moved into their apartment building. He is an artist in what can only be described a rut, and is readily, if a little timidly, subsumed into her wacky and lively world. She claims he reminds her of her brother, but of course time and events soon change that dynamic. Thing is, though, they both have some pretty hefty skeletons in their closets, and the challenge for them both will be to not let those spoil what could be a burgeoning romance! Aside from the legendary "Moon River" song, this is essentially just a quickly paced character study of two people with about as many complexities to their personalities as it is possible to have. The dialogue is often genuinely funny; the scenarios - though sometimes a little cringe-making - can't help but raise a smile as does the continuity provided by their constantly complaining upstairs neighbour. Time has not been especially kind to some of the stereotypes - not least Mickey Rooney's "Yunioshi" but taken in the context of the time, it is still entertaining, risqué even, and enjoyable to watch.

I don’t know how I went this long without watching this movie, but I recently viewed it for the first time. It is fairly entertaining for the most part. Audrey Hepburn is magnetic and Patricia Neal just as good. I thought George Peppard could have injected more energy or emotion into his role. The rest of the cast is solid, especially the cat.

The plot seems rather daring for the time, though they are careful about talking around mature themes. I thought Mickey Rooney playing a Japanese character was in terrible taste, and apparently director Blake Edwards wished he could cast it over again. It wasn’t Rooney’s fault; it was a thankless role and comes across as racist with our modern sensibilities.

So I wasn’t dazzled by the story, but I found the final scene with the cat redeemed some of the flaws I noticed along the way.