With the famous British sex based comedy series heading into the 1970's naturally things were going to get a little ruder, due to things like Emmanuelle and more pornography available, but luckily this film is bearable and not grim viewing. Basically the Wedded Bliss dating agency is specialised in bringing together lonely single people that want to find that special someone and obviously get married very quickly. Owner Sidney Bliss (Sid James) is recently having complications with his work partner and fake business wife Sophie Plummett (Hattie Jacques) becoming very paranoid and argumentative, but he is determined to keep things going. We obviously see the strange people who are visiting the dating agency looking for love and more, these include seamstress Esme Crowfoot (Joan Sims), confirmed bachelor and marriage councillor Percival Snooper (Kenneth Williams), timid and nervous Bertrum Muffet (Richard O'Callaghan) and Terence Philpot (Terry Scott). Bertrum manages to get a blind date but confuses his actual date partner with model Sally Martin (Jacki Piper), Terry manages to find a beautiful big breasted mate with Jenny Grubb (Imogen Hassall) but cannot get the moment to seduce her, and Esme finds herself a partner but has to keep him from original boxer boyfriend Gripper Burke (Bernard Bresslaw). While all this is going Sidney is unaware that Sophie may still have feelings for him, but with her angry nature she hires private eye James Bedsop (Charles Hawtrey) to follow him and his activities. In the end all the happy couples, including a reformed Sidney and Sophie, are brought together for a celebratory dinner, filled with loads of cream cakes, and some arguing turns into a mass food fight. As always the cast play the parts we have become used to, it's a little annoying Barbara Windsor isn't featuring, but you can forgive it because of all the actually surprisingly funny sexualised antics, and close to the mark innuendos and double-entendre jokes we adore, I can slightly see why the critics give it two stars out of five, but personally I think it is a fun and near worthwhile comedy. Okay!
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