Review of Spanish Fly

While all too readily replacing witty banter with fulsomely fleshly frolics, the boorishly bawdy 'Spanish Fly' (1976) occasionally proved itself to be a rather 'comely', far from 'slack-stick' farce of generously wine-soaked, ceaselessly bottom-goosing, lingerie-languishing absurdity! The pleasantly ample-sounding, entirely shapely score by the mercurial music-maker Ron Goodwin being an especially slinky highlight of an otherwise altogether half-baked, Menorca-set, low-browed lark, where, sadly, the usually triumphant titter-titans Terry-Thomas & Leslie Phillips were wholly unable to revivify the rather flaccid screenplay, perhaps their signature shtick was entirely lost in translation! When all is said and done, it might have been better for ALL concerned if writer Robert Ryerson had experienced such a catastrophic lack of lead in his pencil, that instead of 'writing' the frequently flightless 'Spanish Fly' he went on an imagination-restoring Mediterranean holiday instead! Even sans sting, this salaciously silly, terminally tepid tale of trouser-dropping tedium was plentifully endowed with a deliciously jaunty theme song 'Fly Me', a truly exquisite melody performed quite beautifully by saucy songbird Geraldine.