Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Best movie of this year hands down!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Hands down without an other flick coming in 2nd place. I will strive to have either disks or downloads freely available (whatever is the predominant format at such time} for any attendee who is twisted enough to want to see what it was that inspired and sustained me.

After years of reading about this movie and seeing clips on YouTube, I finally got to see The Magic Christian. The funniest parts were the before auction scene where Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr puts one over on John Cleese and the auction scene itself. I also liked the dog show scene with that black man bringing a black panther and that "Black and White" scene of two Mr. Universes really offending a racist homophobic. And how about Raquel Welch as the head of a boat load of slave girls? Or Yul Brynner as...Oh, just watch the movie. And there's a couple of familiar co-stars of Peter Sellers that are worth watching for. But not everything works and I don't think this is a masterpiece or even very good. Still, it's worth a look for those interested in '60s British humor or good music like Badfinger's "Come and Get It" (written by Paul McCartney) and Thunderclap Newman's "Something In the Air". There's also an interesting animated sequence in the boardroom scene.

A doodlebug of a movie that is required movie by those who want to understand the Sixties better - just don't expect to understand what is going on - a complete mi sh mash of satire and irreverent fun all played out in a series of sketches that are joined by hte characters of Sellers and Ringo Starr cavorting around.This is about as far from 50s British comedy and Ealing as its possible to get: surreal, surprising, cruel, vindictive, hilarious, and just plain weird in places.It lives up to its tag line of Antiestablishment etc; and looks and feels like Monty Python before Python and with more bite.while stretching the credibility and tolerance of the audience is places it is wild viewing - and can be enjoyed on many levels.Be in the mood and you'll have a riot...

One day the fabulously wealthy Sir Guy Grand who is Peter Sellers with a much larger nose finds a young orphan kid in a park. On the spur of the moment he adopts young Ringo Starr, probably because Ringo has a well known honker in real life and Sellers sees something of himself in Ringo.The idea is that Sellers has to have someone not just to leave his money to, but someone to impart his accumulated wisdom of the years which is boiled up into one single thought; that EVERYBODY has his price. The rest of the film is a Monty Pythonesque group of skits in which Sellers tries to prove just that to Starr. They range from Laurence Harvey doing a striptease while doing Hamlet's soliloquy to a beat cop eating a parking ticket for 500 pounds. The title The Magic Christian refers to a Titanic like cruise ship that only caters to the upper crust. Sellers and Starr integrate that ship's maiden voyage in a most interesting fashion.That the film is like Monty Python is no accident with Graham Chapman and John Cleese doing the writing. Ringo's former Beatle companero, Paul McCartney wrote The Magic Christian theme, Come and Get It which sums up the philosophy of the film.After almost 40 years, The Magic Christian is acidly funny, but a still unsettling.