Hard to define but easy to recommend; the 20th-Fox presentation is a funny musical comedy, or comedy with music, with all the glamour that Hollywood can throw into one film, and a high-powered cast to light the marquee.

J. Lee Thompson's direction has failed to coalesce a good, firm farce. It lets the whole thing flap wildly -- and that's no way to make a film.

A big, gaudy, gimmicky comedy which continually promises more than it delivers by way of wit and/or bellylaffs.

It’s ridiculous and over-the-top in the best possible ways and made me laugh out loud multiple times. It also has an anti-capitalist message and parodies silent films, French New Wave, big budget spectacle, Hollywood romances, and musicals.