CATCH US IF YOU CAN is a kind of spiritual successor to the Beatles' A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, with John Boorman directing in pseudo-documentary style as he follows the Dave Clark Five on a kind of road trip as they work for an advertising company selling...meat. It doesn't sound very exciting and it really isn't, as the singers don't have really anything in the way of screen presence and their dialogue is constantly stilted and more than a little annoying. The saving grace is the presence of real actors in support, including the likes of Ronald Lacey, Clive Swift and David Lodge, but their roles are eclipsed by the tedium of the main stars.
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