Critical Response
The film received favorable reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 78% based on 27 reviews.
At the time Variety described the film as having "excellent production values and some genuine wit" but also noted that film was juvenile and tasteless.
Writing three decades later in 2008, Ian Nathan of Empire Magazine calls the film "occasionally funny" ... "in a scattershot and puerile way" and he concludes the film is "smart and satirical but very dated".
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