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One can only hope this was made by a first year film student, and not someone who's been in the business for a while. From the opening factual error , stating the events took place in "1969, the summer of love" (was this written by a millennial kid who had no idea of 1967?) I knew I was in for a stinker. I get the feeling the writer/director saw The Strangers with Liv Tyler and said "yeah, we're gonna make something like that, only BETTER!!"..with any luck, they've since left the film industry.

never saw it , but how well I remember Mickey appearing on the Virginia Graham Show to promote it....(this was well after the series had been cancelled so I was interested to see what he was up to)...Mickey came out and described the plot of the film and then they showed a short clip...it was the big moment when his friend breaks the news that it's only a weed that' he's growing..when the clip was over they cut back to Mickey and he was doing some hammy fake crying over how touching it was. ..even as a young teen I could smell a stinker...it all seemed so sad to see one of the Monkees doing this just to keep working...as I got older I realized this happens to everyone at some time or another...and I wonder if this movie could be any worse than the pathetic Monkees reunion TV show from the 1990s

I had this on video when it was first made available, but got rid of it during a binge of housecleaning..and NOW I wish I had it again for another view..some of it is interesting (as the other reviewer says, you get to see Bowie pre-dental cosmetics..during Space Oddity Bowie looks like he could bite through a microphone with those huge choppers...the best part of this are the performances of two rare Bowie songs: Ching-a-Ling (with ex girlfriend Hermione) and When I'm Five..the Lindsay Kemp inspired pantomime is pretty embarrassing (was Kemp EVER any good?..his performance in Wickerman is one of the few drawbacks)..oh well..I keep my eyes open for chance to pick this up again ...as a side note, youtube.com has several clips from this for your viewing pleasure

Sure, it's spotty with its gags (what Lewis film isn't?) but it looks fantastic and the gags that work are hilarious...good sight gags with Buddy Lester, some funny surreal stuff (the lipstick on the painting, the butterfly collection and that great white room sequence with Harry James's Band and Miss Cartilage)..Lewis's reactions to "Baby" are a scream...even the opening titles bit with LOOK magazine is funny... ..downsides...well, the ad libbing with Kathleen Freeman doesn't always work and the serious story with Pat Stanley could be excised (for the better), but who cares?...this and Nutty Professor are definitely his best

I saw this film on first release and I remember being sickened by it...the early scene of jerry pulling his gangster double out of the beach (he's caught him in the back with fishing hooks), lots of blood...and this is supposed to be a family film?? ..later buddy lester is so shocked by seeing what he thinks is the dead gangster rejuvenated, that he ends up spitting out his own teeth, and spends the rest of the film going around with bloody gums, mumbling...kee-rist, what the hell was jerry lewis thinking??? ..the scenes with jerry as an Asian actor, spouting a lot of gibberish is just embarrassing. ..and is anyone else annoyed by the DVD releases of all these early lewis films?.. the narration is basically steve lawrence guffawing and praising jerry for every single frame, and asking him repeatedly for an explanation of the videotape camera system (which jerry gladly talks about over and over) ..anyway, I do like The Nutty Professor and The Ladies Man, but this one is a disaster

watching this film recently was like watching Diary of a Mad Housewife....there are theatrical and television prints of the same film, that both differ greatly. .You sit there saying..:"What the..??..I don't remember this!!...and where's this part?!?!" . (reminds me of the chapter in the novel The Magic Christian, where Guy Grand inserts a bizarre sequence into an afternoon screening of The Best Years of Our Lives, just to mess with the audience's mind so they go back to see if they really saw it, only this time the sequence is missing) The biggest difference:..there was no supermarket sequence!! ..well, not the famous one I remember anyway.(with the mad patient roundup thwarted by "Holmes" giving out superbargain prices over the intercom)..in this version, only Scott and Woodward go inside the store, solve a clue and then head off for Central Park ..other sequences also seem longer, and Al Lewis was missing ...funny to see F. Murray Abrahm and M. Emmet Walsh in early cameos

I have to say I think this is one of Don Knotts's better comedy roles (certainly better than the horrendous How To Frame a Figg). I put it right up there with Ghost And Mr. Chicken...Jerry Lewis tried his hand at doing adult comedy (Dont Raise the Bridge..) and failed, but DK is perfect as the small town virginal patsy made to look like the world's greatest swinger. I defy anyone to watch Knott's little dance performance during the "Mr. Peacock" song montage and not laugh out loud. ..the only part of the plot that seems to falter is Anne Francis's character's relationship to Abner Peacock..does she love him or not?? ..and as a Mayberry trivia note, listen to the song the Choir is singing when the camera is showing the exterior to the church...is that not the "Ode to Jaunita" that Barney Fife was always singing ??

..this sequel is actually pretty good, the different film style for each segment works (especially the hand held camera style for the viet nam segment)...I'd rather watch this than most of the crap lucas puts out these days ...milner's character was fleshed out a bit more here from the first film, and to good effect ...my only complaint is that each segment feels like it should be a year later than the date indicated on screen (eg....no one in 1966 San Francisco would have ANY idea who Jimi Hendrix was, and those student protests on campus were more common AFTER 1967)