Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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.

MartinHafer This is a film that I strongly think your opinion of it will depend on your age. Younger folks who have no recollection of the 1960s will probably find this film less interesting. Those who vividly remember this strange decade will probably get more from the film. Me, I was only a young kid during this time, so my opinion seems to fall somewhere in the middle.The movie begins with Peter Sellers playing a Jewish attorney living in Los Angeles. His life is very "normal" and he is on track to be quite successful and marry his sweetheart (Joyce Van Patten). However, when his brother's lover (Leigh Taylor-Young) slips Sellers and his fiancé and his parents a dish of hashish-laced brownies, Sellers' straight-laced veneer vanishes and now the 35 year-old "square" wants to drop out and become a hippie. Much of the rest of the film concerns the ins and outs of such a life and by the end of the film, it seems that Sellers isn't content with either life...and still longs for a deeper sense of meaning.I noticed that many people called this film a comedy. While there are some mildly funny moments, I wouldn't describe it as this at all and it's NOT much like Sellers' other films. I am NOT saying it's a bad film--just not exactly a comedy. Instead, it's like a time capsule--an interesting one, but one that many probably won't find all that compelling unless they lived during this time. Generally, the film is well made and acted and it's worth a look--and that's really about all.FYI--The reference to Alice B. Toklas regards her being the first to publish a recipe for marijuana or hashish brownies. You hear her name sung repeatedly throughout the film but otherwise the film has nothing to do with her nor her lover, Gertrude Stein.

beatle1909 I am so grateful, as an American Jew, that Peter Sellers agreed to play this role. He is the epitome of the regimented middle class Jewish boy, who came of age in those difficult times, know as the late sixties. He has one foot in the past, clinging to values, and one foot in the present, stuck in the mud. How Sellers captured this character so perfectly, down to the mannerisms and spot on accent, is beyond me. I know the history of Sellers, and his Jewish background. But he was English, and had spent little time in America. I can imagine Gene Wilder in this role, but it would not have been the same. This is a quintessential Jewish movie, to be seen on a double-bill with Bye,Bye, Braverman.

wellsortof I don't feel like I can rate this movie much higher than 7, although I did rather enjoy it. It began slow, but once Sellers meets his female match in Nancy's character, things start to move. I was personally a fan of all the "inadvertent" troubles Sellers's character kept getting into once he picked up the new psychedelic car, and how he was getting beaten down by all of the things in his own life. I'm sure that, at the time, the scene with the "groovy" brownies was quite new and perhaps had not been seen at all on TV or in movies, but it seems pretty predictable now (particularly with its use in "That 70s Show" and Never Been Kissed). The best thing about it is that it seems to provide a pretty good snapshot of the late 60s, from which my own remembrances of the era are in the form of not being born until 7 years after this movie was made.