SPANISH FLY is a rather tame and old-fashioned British sex comedy shot on the Baleric Islands, which must have been a treat for the two old-timers appearing in it. They needed something positive anyway, because this is weak sauce indeed, a film constrained by poor scripting and a string of unfunny and obvious gags. The plot itself isn't too bad, involving a cheap consignment of wine mixed with an unexpected ingredient to give it an aphrodisiac quality, and there's something winning about the combination of two superstars of British comedy, Leslie Phillips and Terry-Thomas. While the former is more subdued than usual, the latter is a delight (despite nearing the end of his career due to ill health) and even gets his trademark quip, "You absolute shower!". The rest is indeed a shower of attractive starlets with limited acting experience, copious nudity, and sniggering sex gags, so par for the course for a British sex comedy from the 1970s.
Review of Spanish Fly
