I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!

A giddy, slapdash, entertainingly inconsequential comedy.

Film blasts off into orbit via top-notch acting and direction. Sellers’ performance – both in scenes which spotlight his character as well as ensemble sequences in which everyone is balanced nicely – is an outstanding blend of warmth, sensitivity, disillusion and optimism. Read full review

This first half of the film is the best, as Sellers gradually bends the middle-class into non-class. Read full review

Maybe the three-star rating is generous, but this one gets bonus points for being such an artifact of its age -- and for being a decent warm-up for better Paul Mazursky-Larry Tucker scripts soon to follow: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and the underrated, not-on-DVD Alex in Wonderland (1970). [07 Jul 2006, p.3E]

The film's grasp on its neurotic Jewish milieu is solid, but its knowledge of the counterculture seems to have been gleaned entirely from a news report about kids tuning in, dropping out, and changing their names to Sunshine Daydream Moonflower. Read full review

When everyone begins romping around under the influence of marijuana cookies, Sellers becomes a long-haired dropout, and one can only cringe in embarrassment. [15 Dec 2004]

As long as it accepts its conventional identity, it's as amiable as the Jewish middle class and hippie scenes it satirizes with a TV gag writer's sensibility. Toward the end, however, the movie gets all mixed up and, under the mistaken impression that it's as wise as "The Graduate," it runs off into an unsatisfactory limbo. Read full review