| Poor Harold Fine (Peter Sellers)... he's a suit-and-tie-wearing Jewish professional who's being pressed by his fiancée (Joyce Van Patten, in a supremely whiny and irritating performance) to nail down a wedding date. Harold's bored and dissatisfied with his life, though; when he meets Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young), a hippie-chick friend of his brother's, he decides to tune in, turn on, and drop out, in a big way. He flees the altar, leaving Joyce standing alone, and pursues the counterculture life. Soon, though, Harold discovers that the hippie life isn't all it's cracked up to be, with its hipper-than-thou hypocrisy adding up to little more than a different brand of conformity. Screenwriter Paul Mazursky skewers the shallowness of the '60s with dead-on humor and some hilarious set pieces; the scene where Harold and his straitlaced parents eat some of Nancy's "funny" brownies is especially memorable. Sellers's comic timing and physical awkwardness, paired with Mazursky's dialogue, makes this one of the better '60s-time-capsule flicks. --Jerry Renshaw |
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 Andy Warhol? |
| Review Date: June 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Beantown Jim, Florida |
| This movie was a strange blend of the old world(pre rock and roll) and the hip contemporary one of the "free love" 1960's. Now, to be honest, the 1960's was no more free love than any decade, but Hollywood deals in stereotypes, so... In the film, Peter Sellers has to choose between the very dull conventional world and the wild hippy lifestyle. He is tempted, like Ulysses, by an incredible nymph by the name of Leigh Taylor Young. If you are male and saw the movie, you remember that sexy, if innocent by today's stanards, scene. In fact, DVD marketing being what it is, that scene is now the cover piece for the diskette. AS a comedy, the film is thin and doesn't carryover into our epoch well; what you are left with, I am afraid, is a few funny bits of cars being painted in flowepower colors, and the incredible Ms. Young, whose flower was drawn by none other than 1960's guru Andy Warhol himself. |
DVD I love you Alice B. Toklas
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| Review Date: November 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer: R. Glatt, Hawaii, USA |
| If you ever need a really good laugh, and a trip back the sixties, this is a 'must have'. |
Dated, But Still Funny
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| Review Date: November 8, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Michael B. Druxman, Austin, TX |
This 1968 hit comedy about a staid Los Angeles attorney who turns Hippie may be a bit dated, but it's still a very funny movie.
Peter Sellers stars as the lawyer who meets flower child Leigh Taylor-Young, then decides that there are better things "out there" than his regimented, albeit successful, lifestyle.
Sellers is marvelous in this smart satire, but the most memorable performance is that of Joyce Van Patten, who plays the ardent, insecure fiancee he leaves at the altar...not once, but twice.
Written by Larry Tucker and Paul Mazursky and directed by Hy Averback, this film is an entertaining 93 minutes.
© Michael B. Druxman |
Im goin' back
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| Review Date: September 16, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Bradley F. Smith, Miami Beach, FL |
| If you loved the '60s, this is like opening a time capsule. Cynics abounded then, too, despite the love image of the time. This movie is one of the better comedies of the period. |
I love you, Peter Sellers!!
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| Review Date: October 9, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Alfredo Antillon, |
| This is a very good movie. I had seen it thirty-something years ago, and always remembered certain parts, but I had forgotten other things and it was great to watch it again. I think it is not only very funny, but also a rather fair evaluation of the pros and cons of the alternative lifestyle that the hip community proposed way back in the mid-to-late 1960's. Peter Sellers, as always, fleshes out the character in his inimitable way. All in all, a highly recomendable movie for those who want to know/remember how life was before Internet and Jihad. |
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