What's New Pussycat
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Actor: Capucine, Paula Prentiss, Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Romy SchneiderBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of What's New Pussycat
DVD Review: Fabulous Talents, Disappointing Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
'What's New Pussycat' offers enormous promise in its lineup of acting and writing talents from Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Woody Allen, Romy Schneider, Capucine, and for great eyewash, Ursala Andress. Overall, the movie is a farce which pretends to be more 'intelligent' than the many early farcical movies it copies. I suspect Allen conceived a plan to see how many different movie comedies he could 'quote'. I detect 'borrowings' from the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and W. C. Fields, not to mention Allen's own early movie persona. Add to that Peter Sellers' comic tics and you get a highly spiced mix of styles, devices, and plot twists. But there lies the problem. To sense the extent to which the film goes wrong, one can compare it to two very successful farces. The first is none other than William Shakespeare's first play, 'Two Gentlemen of Verona', based on disguise and mistaken identies. The other is the French movie and its American translation, 'The Birdcage', also based on a comedy of errors and mistaken identities. Both work quite well, simply because they are far simpler in plot. '...Pussycat' reminds me of a line from 'Amadeus' where Mozart is bragging about how many parts he introduces into a passage in one of his operas, reaching, I believe 20, an unheard of number to be sure. Allen concocts a plot based on the swings in relationships between three male characters (Sellers, O'Toole, and Allen) and at least five female characters. While he doesn't realize all possible combinations (15), he comes close. To continue the culinary metaphor, the story and its manic realization, there is simply just too many dispirate things going to appreciate any distinct tastes at all. It is either entirely too sickly sweet to appreciate the inndividual flavors. And, it is not that Allen goes to far in stretching our ability to suspend disbelief. Some of the greatest comedies by far stretch reality far, far beyond the breaking point, such as 'Ghostbusters' and 'Blazing Saddles'. There is no sense of uniform style or approach. Allen's scenes are clearly written by 'Woody Allen', but Sellers' scenes seem to be written by Blake Edwards. The whole movie seems like its put together like Sellars' bizzare Tutor house seen in the opening scene. This movie is by far less than the sum of its parts. One of the greatest examples of how moments are simply thrown in for cheap effect is the cameo appearance of Richard Burton in a scene with O'Toole. Amazingly enough, there is value in watching the movie at least once, especially if you are old enough to remember the culture of the early sixties, just before things got really crazy. I will even go so far as to say the movie is rich enough to warrent two or three viewings, especially with a group of people with similar tastes for Allen and Sellars. This movie is also a refutation of the opinion that all Allen's earlier movies were better than his later films.
Description of What's New Pussycat
It's tough being the cat's meow! A "zany blend of slapstick gags and madcap comedy" (Cue), this "hilarious" (Motion Picture Herald) romp, starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole and WoodyAllen in his acting and screenwriting debut, is the "wildest, wackiest" (Boxoffice) film to emerge from the swingin' '60s. Burt Bacharach's Oscar(r)-nominated* title song only adds tothe infectious appeal! Michael (O'toole) has a problem: he's a mademoiselle magnet! His demented psychiatrist (Sellers) and sex-starved friend (Allen) would kill for this problem, but his would-be fiancée (Romy Schneider) might just kill him. Undergoing therapy that would put Freud in a straitjacket, Michael tries to reform, but it won't be easy with sex kittens like Capucine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress on his tail! *1965: Song (with Hal David)Bestsellers in DVD
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