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like Golightly rarely change in an instant), and the part about her being a child bride is creepy and also rather outdated (except maybe in Utah?).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.