The movie spotlights the self-consuming, self-perpetuating echoes of mass media and their jangling yet liberating amplification of private, intimate matters.

[Mansfield] constantly catches you off guard. She's this unabashedly crude movie's bleached-blond heart and soul.

The picture sends up and encapsulates the complacency of the conformist Eisenhower years.

While the film lacks the musical revolution encapsulated by Mansfield's previous hit, it makes up for it with a funnier storyline.