6/10
wouldn't you love to be Michael James
3 April 1999
This is probably one of the funniest movies to come from the 1960's. Woody Allen really should have directed it though, It would have been even better. Allen felt that the picture didn't go the way he planned it. After this film he decided to direct all of his own pictures from then on. The gags in the film resemble that of Buster Keaton and Groucho Marx. It is evident that Allen was influenced tremendously by these two men. The scene whee everyone piles into the room is reminiscent of the scene in the Marx brothers film Room Service. And near the end when they are all on go-cars looks as though it could have been done by Buster Keaton. All in all this is a tremendously funny film I couldn't keep from laughing out loud. Peter O'Toole was absolutely fabulous in the role as Michael James. It just showed that he could do a little more than Lawrence of Arabia.
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