This quintessential mid-sixties movie isn't actually a comedy. There's nothing funny in it. Instead it's just fun to look at the overblown costumes and décor. There's also a great dance scene wherein Ms. MacLaine shows her chops and they're impressive. It's one of the hare-brained 60s flicks where the preposterous premise is supposed to pass for humor but it's just preposterous. This one is that the heroine, played by Shirley MacLaine, keeps marrying men who are happy until she gets ahold of them and they get rich. The riches destroy their happiness. She's only happy when she can get rid of the millions and land a loser.
Review of What a Way to Go!
