2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) The 60's. The year of the revolution. It's The Squares vs. The Flower Children. More likely "Hippies". While the common man work and provide the way they do best: Working for a living to provide. While the Hippie culture are considered to be the "Slackers". Sitting around, smoking pot, and roaming around in psychedelic vehicles. Peter Sellers(1925-80), plays Attorney Harold Fine, a very serious man who has happened to propose to his girlfriend, Joyce (Joyce Van Patten) when the family butcher dies, his brother living in Venice Beach happen to be a hippie. His girlfriend, Nancy (Leigh Taylor- Young) started to take a liking to Harold. Not only does he began to resent his life, he decided to delve into the hippie lifestyle after sampling Nancy's pot brownies. When he walked out of his wedding day, he started to get involved with Nancy in more ways than one. The best part of the film is when Harold kisses the butterfly tattoo on her thigh. After time, he finds out that the hippie life is not for him. Finding yourself is always something, indecision can hamper anyone. Are you happy where you are at? This movie is kind of interesting to see. You must know what the lifestyle is best for you. I can't make that for you. Watch the movie and see for yourself 3 out of 5 stars.

jaster-7 This one of these movies I remember when it came out but I was too young to see it at the time, yet I remember a touch of controversy around it. As I've now just seen it today (finally!), I realize now controversy was due to the free use of drugs in reference and in use in this movie. It's a broad yet clever story of a man learning to feel, and all the trouble that gets him into. Sellers is great and so is Van Fleet as his mom - her laugh is so infectious when they all inadvertently get stoned on pot brownies, from an Alice B. Toklas recipe - hilarious. (Is that where the term 'toke' comes from?) Someone mentioned this movie is a time-capsule, and I couldn't agree more – it truly is a commentary of social upheaval focusing on a specific time when Stein and Toklas were on the scene, and how this uptight Jewish lawyer gets caught up in the hippy movement and love is everywhere. Even though a parody and farcical, I enjoyed some unexpected laughs at the clever dialog - so many great quotes in this movies! Like when entering into the throes of passion with the always beaming, blissed out Nancy, "Kiss my face…kiss my lips…kiss my ANKH!" – it's classic Peter Sellers comedy. (I'm not sure if that's a spoiler?) The film is highly concerned with marijuana and its use, and I found it refreshing and so much more open than what attitudes and views seem to be now – I don't think you could see a film like this now coming out of Hollywood. The wonderful relish with which they enjoy the brownies is priceless! Anyway I think this movie is all about the chaos of feelings – when we open up to them - wow! They can feel like a tidal wave of wonder, but invariably wreck havoc with the secure and stable foundations of your life – and no matter how you try and put them back in the box, once you've tasted freedom like that, there's no going back.

jellyfish-hendrix This film was a real disappointment. I found it evidently manufactured by an older mainstreaming Hollywood machine. Jokes were very dated. Jokes seemed to be for those unfamiliar with "The Hippie Problem" facing conservative America. Jewish humor was overdone. Music was forgettably bad. Big splashy posters were good. I recall that hippies lost their clothes at the drop of a hat. Hippies did not sleep with boots on their feet. Marxian humor couldn't save "overcrowding small room" scenes. Not a funny movie. A timepiece that was assembled by old Hollywood. Many hippie references in movies produced in American 1960's missed the mark. Sensationalizing costumes and shuffling wig wearing young people climbing in and out of psychedelically painted jalopies did not reflect the times.

sol- With a strange title, but a memorable title song, this film is meant to be a satire on the hippie era and emancipating oneself. It is popular among those who were around in the 1960s, but is questionable whether the film will amuse other audiences. It is not very funny, with jokes that are more so absent than lame, a rather dull story, and really not very much to it at all. As usual, Peter Sellers brings some sparks to the material; the rest of the cast do very little with their roles, and some verge on being over-the-top. The film deserves credit for the title song, Seller's performance, and perhaps providing a snapshot of an era long past. It is not a particularly good film though. Hy Averback would have more success later on, directing episodes of the TV series 'M*A*S*H'.