This is British sex farce that puts all others to shame -- except there is no shame here.
If you can accept it for what it was -- not what it isn't, now -- and resist being revisionist about it, then you can enjoy it in spite of yourself. The ladies are lovely, the stories are silly and the acting is more than adequate throughout. Appreciation of it is helped if you were in at least your late adolescence when it was made, in 1969, can still remember what society and culture were like then, and haven't yet lost your sense of humor and the absurd. And to see the sets from "Oliver" and "Scrooge" in a decidedly different kind of film only adds to the enjoyment.
It's also worthwhile considering it as a Joanna Pettet double-feature, with the other one being Casino Royale (1967), which is also guaranteed to offend many currently but is still worth a watch to fully appreciate those times and mores. Might want to give "Barbarella" a look, too, for a David Hemmings tie-in.
If you can accept it for what it was -- not what it isn't, now -- and resist being revisionist about it, then you can enjoy it in spite of yourself. The ladies are lovely, the stories are silly and the acting is more than adequate throughout. Appreciation of it is helped if you were in at least your late adolescence when it was made, in 1969, can still remember what society and culture were like then, and haven't yet lost your sense of humor and the absurd. And to see the sets from "Oliver" and "Scrooge" in a decidedly different kind of film only adds to the enjoyment.
It's also worthwhile considering it as a Joanna Pettet double-feature, with the other one being Casino Royale (1967), which is also guaranteed to offend many currently but is still worth a watch to fully appreciate those times and mores. Might want to give "Barbarella" a look, too, for a David Hemmings tie-in.