Slapstick can be fun if it's clever or, at maximum a half hour sitcom or an hour long sketch show. But 90 minutes with famous names from movies, stage and T.V. here is sad because it reeks of desperation. Leads Anthony Newley and Stefanie Powers look fantastic and manage to hide their embarrassment of the lame situations they get into and the juvenile dialog they must either spout or listen to.
Along side them are Lloyd Bochner as an elegant politician who gets an attack of diarrhea as he is about to make a speech, Yvonne De Carlo as a rifle toting nut-case, Moses Gunn who screams out Montezuma's revenge as a snooty but bird-brained hostess watches a bunch of her guests run off with the runs after somebody put ex- lax in a salad (limited number of bathrooms nearby) and a young John Candy as a rather inane cop.
Shots of a skunk's butt as it appears to spray Bochner must have been somebody's idea of showing nature mooning politics, while a priest's relief at just having pooped while tons of other men desperately wait for a one-stalled bathroom adds more toilet humor. This is Scooby Doo meets South Park, juvenile humor at its most foul, and you may find yourself truly over this half way through. The presence of all these fairly familiar names might strike an interest, but some movie producer should instead have struck the secretary who let this sneak through.
Along side them are Lloyd Bochner as an elegant politician who gets an attack of diarrhea as he is about to make a speech, Yvonne De Carlo as a rifle toting nut-case, Moses Gunn who screams out Montezuma's revenge as a snooty but bird-brained hostess watches a bunch of her guests run off with the runs after somebody put ex- lax in a salad (limited number of bathrooms nearby) and a young John Candy as a rather inane cop.
Shots of a skunk's butt as it appears to spray Bochner must have been somebody's idea of showing nature mooning politics, while a priest's relief at just having pooped while tons of other men desperately wait for a one-stalled bathroom adds more toilet humor. This is Scooby Doo meets South Park, juvenile humor at its most foul, and you may find yourself truly over this half way through. The presence of all these fairly familiar names might strike an interest, but some movie producer should instead have struck the secretary who let this sneak through.