A follow-up to "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines", it lacks most of the charm of its predecessor. It squeezes too many people into an otherwise sound international cast. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore do steal the show, and the French comic actor Bourvil comes off extremely well -- you may not notice him at first, but on repeated viewings he stands out. There's lots of funny stuff here. Some of it works. Most of it doesn't. But one finds oneself unable to look away from it, like a car wreck. Its biggest problem, in retrospect, is probably that it isn't bad enough to be considered worth watching for its badness. It's an almost pretty good movie that never quite makes it. But it's an diverting time-waster.
