Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Retired secret agent Matt Helm (Dean Martin) is a photographer of beautiful models with beautiful assistant Lovey Kravezit. His former boss Macdonald at Intelligence Counter Espionage with deadly Tina recruit him back in the fight against the evil Big O organization led by Tung-Tze who plans to use the underground atomic bomb test in New Mexico to start WWIII. Andreyev is the evil henchman. Matt encounters bumbling bosom blonde Gail Hendricks (Stella Stevens) and Sam Gunther.Before Austin Powers, there was Matt Helm. This is a semi-spoof of Jimmy Bond. Dean Martin is the perfect lady's man to play the role. It's a lot of scantily clad beautiful women and outrageous spy stuff. It is semi-spoof because it's not that that far from the actual Bond franchise. It's got some song and dance as long as the dancing has the girls jiggling. The most important part is that this is fun and Martin seems to be having fun winking at the audience.

This comedy spy caper is so tongue in cheek that if you played a drinking game with this, you'd run out of vermouth. At the height of his rat pack popularity, Dean Martin scored a series of films spoofing the popular spy genre, and as an American version of James Bond, Martin is totally a hoot. Silencers on guns keep killing all of the women whom Dino obviously intends to bed, and it all surrounds a new and even more deadly atomic bomb set to be dropped on America in the middle of nowhere with the intention of starting World War III. The plot really is secondary, with Dean's romantic inclinations and the parade of beauties in nothing but panties and bra passing by. Ironically, it's James Gregory, the buffoon politician at the center of Angela Lansbury's nefarious scheme in "The Manchurian Candidate" as Martin's good guy boss. The women include such lovely ladies as Stella Stevens, Daliah Lavi and the still gorgeous Cyd Charisse (seen briefly) who hasn't aged a day since her time as one of MGM's great dancers. Victor Buono, Robert Webber and Roger C. Carmel are among the bad guys. Chase sequences on mountainside highways, nightclub scenes where the star gets shot, and lots of political intrigue, along with Martin's witty commentary, make this a lot of fun. Films like this were all over in the 1960's, but they lacked in the charm and inventiveness of this and the ground-breaking Bond films. This flies by in just over an hour and a half. Martin gets a few digs in at Sinatra's expense with a certain other singer on the radio getting his approval. The best bits involve inventive sets, particularly a bed that raises to dump Dean in his pool and car seats that turn into a reclining love making machine. Stella Stevens gets the worst of it as the redhead stuck in the car with him in a rainstorm and escapes, only to end up a muddy mess in a truly hysterically funny scene. The outrageous wrap-up has a neat little twist, and the final credits give the audience a view of things to come in the already planned sequel.

I will not bother to go over the plot or other cinematic elements of this light-hearted spoof, and concentrate on the man himself, the King of Cool, Dino Crocetti.His casual sexism, smug chauvinism, and generally patronizing attitude are refreshing reminders of the days when men were expected to behave that way, political correctness be damned. My favorite scene is when he casually breaks out a bottle of liquor **while driving** to knock back a few with Stella Stevens. The ways Dean acts would get him picketed by anhedonic prudes-- excuse me, **feminist groups**, if he were performing today. Then again, if he were performing today, we'd have bigger problems because it would mean that the zombie apocalypse has begun. All in all, a playful time-capsule romp through the days when people just seemed to have more damn fun.

The first few minutes says it all and set the pace for the whole movie. Whether it be the sexy strippers at the beginning, or the drop dead sexy-beautiful Nancy Kovack. Nancy Kovack's one scene was sizzling hot for the 60s. I didn't mind it however. Then the humor in between makes it very entertaining. You have to enjoy it for what it is. I mean come on it's not "Lawrence of Arabia" for crying out loud. A movie like this. Don't bust your chops trying to over analyze it. Just enjoy the pretty girls, the good jokes, the heavy action , the plot. It does have one. Forget the normal type of critique. Trust me. You will then appreciate it a hell of a lot more. P.S. What I liked was Dino seemed so relaxed and so natural and didn't try to over act in this flick.