You won't be disappointed!

Overrated

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

This movie is like a "make a wish" grant for a dying child. In this case, the producers of the Dick Van Dyke show must have felt sorry for Morey Amsterdam as they killed the last big job he'd ever have when then ended the Van Dyke series.Consider the relatively sophisticated humor coming on television at this time, much less the movie. Addams Family, Munsters, Batman, etc. All with loads of adult based double entendre humor that would make kids giggle, yet make adults think twice.And these shows used many celebrity cameos like this movie does, but the other shows understood the point of having the celebrities make fun of themselves. This movie just parades stars through like they all took numbers at the studio cafeteria and were waiting in line.I've never been a big fan of Amsterdam's version of vaudeville humor (consider the Marx brothers were from the same era and how much bawdy and funnier they were), so jamming it into a full length movie doesn't make it any better.I have a feeling that Amsterdam was a great ad-libber on the Dick Van Dyke show, and they kept him around to sweeten scripts, but he wasn't really much of a performer - Dick Van Dyke could have done the show by himself.This movie IS fun to run in the background just to see how many performers whored themselves out for a few seconds of screen time, but other than that, this movie has little entertainment value.

Dinosaurs roamed when these jokes were hatched. The whole movie is a setup for one liners, sight gags and telegraphed physical jokes. The best actor was a turtle who managed a realistic portrayal. The plot such as it seems to be forgotten often in the vain attempt at laughs. I put on the spoiler warning, because the only thing I laughed at was Milton Berle's hoary old chestnut about trying to push a rope. He still had the timing that the rest lacked. The sad thing is that I'm watching this on the "This" network because everything else was infomercials. The wasteland has arrived. I'm even enduring 20 minutes of commercials per hour. You know you're in trouble when "Charley Weaver" complete with pork pie hat appears as a Russian. Not cool enough to be camp. Trashing modern art in 1966 is ludicrous, although I don't know what year they are playing (but must be after 1960 since they included a cosmonaut.) The real problem is telegraphing the jokes and the gags. The cake on the seat is the most obvious. I enjoyed the cameos in a Where's Waldo kind of way, but watching the cast of the Dick Van Dyke show less the leads do bad jokes is painful. The college disco party (called beatnik party) is particularly bad. Did the writers go to school in the 1920s? Richard Deacon as the "undercover" cop is unintentionally hilarious. The fat lady spy looks like the housewife on "The Guild" and has a couple of moments. Look to Get Smart for a way to do a spy spoof or more seriously "In Like Flint" that are funny because they aren't so earnest at being bad. I can't give it one star, because I'm still watching even after Ma Clampett shows up giving the hitchhiking "stars" a ride even after Rose Marie steals a bit from a 30s movie. Even Moe Howard wasn't funny, playing a lawyer ?!? straight!

I've always been a fan of Morey Amsterdam. I mean, he was known as "the human joke machine" and I was a excited to see his writing credit on the movie. But, after this fine example of his work, I'm ready to blame him for the death of vaudeville. This movie was like a cross between "The Monkeys" & "The Three Stooges". It felt like someone made a movie out of a mad lib. A mid lib filled out by potheads. There was no real plot to the movie, but at the same time there were many confusing sub plots. Some kind of government conspiracy involving a Barbra Streisand impersonator. That's all I remember before the brain aneurysm, presumably caused by the movie, left me unconscious on the floor.

I hoped the lazy, arch title would be deceptive. It isn't. The movie is a series of one-liners, improbable situations, and lackluster cameo appearances.The joke in "The Aristocrats" is said to be old. Hey, it can't be as old as some of the ones used here; and it's much funnier.Someone who had never seen The Dick Van Dyke TV show would be at a loss here. The stars are that show's delightful Rose Marie and the less delightful but reliably amusing Morey Amsterdam. Richard Deacon, also from the show, plays two roles.Typical of the ineptitude displayed throughout is the "Beatnik" party the primary characters attend. At it, clean-cut people dance in very square fashion to music with a bland sound that predates rock 'n' roll. This music actually sounds like the theme song to "The Munsters" TV show. That show was pretty lame but it had distinct characters. To show how really bad this is, by comparison to this exceptionally slapdash and unfunny movie, "The Munsters" seems like Restoration Comedy.