Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

JasparLamarCrabb A film version of the notorious novel by Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg. Ewa Aulin plays the title role, a not-so-bright sexpot who happens to continually be in the wrong place at the wrong time, encountering one sex fiend after another, from Mexican gardener Ringo Starr(!) to military man Walter Matthau to creepy poet Richard Burton. It's not particularly funny but it is highly entertaining with an occasional glimpse of real wit provided by screenwriter Buck Henry. It's a rambling film and the cameos come fast and furious...Marlon Brando, John Astin (in 2 roles!), John Huston, Anita Pallenberg, Florinda Bolkan and Charles Aznavour. Directed (using that term very loosely) by actor Christian Marquand. It's photographed very lushly by Giuseppe Rotunno. It's low-rent LOLITA but still worth seeing.

Woodyanders Sweet young teenage innocent Candy (credibly played with endearing wide-eyed naivete by the scrumptious Ewa Aulin) runs afoul of various kooks and perverts while embarking on a surreal and episodic odyssey of carnal self-discovery.Director Christian Marquand, working from an uneven, yet witty script by Buck Henry, fails to make all the random outrageous incidents jell into a coherent narrative whole, but nonetheless still delivers a hugely enjoyable and often amusing four-sheets-to-the-wind delirious satire on modern society's mindless cult of celebrity worship, the swinging 60's sexual revolution and hippie counterculture, and, most of all, the dangerous lustful urges a delectable young babe in the woods easily incites in men both young and old alike. The cast have a field day with the wacky material: Marlon Brando as flaky charlatan guru Grindl, Richard Burton as pompous drunken Welsh poet MacPhisto (whose hair and purple scarf are always billowing due to some mysterious phantom breeze), James Coburn as arrogant brain surgeon Dr. A.B. Krankheit, Walter Matthau as gung-ho General R.A. Smight, Ringo Starr as dim-witted Mexican gardener Emmanuel (complete with dodgy accent!), John Huston as huffy hospital administrator Dr. Arnold Dunlap, Elsa Martinelli as the decadent Livia, Charles Aznavour as a crazed hunchbacked criminal, Anita Pallenberg as the smitten and jealous Nurse Bullock, Florinda Bolkan and Marilu Tolo as fearsome gypsy bikers, and, in a bravura dual role, John Astin as both Candy's uptight father and lecherous Uncle Jack. Dave Grusin's insanely groovy score hits the right-on happening spot. Giuseppe Rotunno's vibrant cinematography provides a neat sparkling look. Although a bit overlong and frequently rambling at a bloated 124 minutes, this singular 60's head-scratcher overall sizes up as a total absurd hoot and a half.

davidjanuzbrown I guess I simply missed the humor in this "Supposed" spoof of the 60s and the military. (I have to say Austin Powers (Another spoof) is Jason Bourne compared to this movie). This film stands out as an all-time baddie, without a single redeeming factor about it. The worst part of this is the waste of the cast. I cannot imagine how you can possibly put Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Walter Matthau, Elsa Martinelli and John Huston in a film and fail? This certainly does and it starts with a script that is so stupid I would sooner watch a marathon of Sponge Bob square pants. The main character Candy (Ewa Aulin) wanders through this film like she is basically stoned, and you could watch a porn film and find a wider degree of expressions on someone's face (Basically she makes Jenna Jameson look like Meryl Streep). Burton as a stupid poet named McPhisto (Which I guess is a takeoff on Dylan Thomas) comes out worst of all, it is by far and away the worst film he ever made, and Matthau as a General is not much better (And as a major comic actor should have known better)). I have seen films its compared to such "The Magic Christian" and "Casino Royale" (Sellers version) and they are better than this turkey. This film is without question the greatest waste of talent in motion picture history (Brando, Coburn, Matthau & Huston FOUR Oscar WINNERS (Burton nominated 7 times)), and thus belongs in my 10 All-Time worst film list (Not quite "Machete" or "Walk On The Wild Side" but pretty damn close). Essentially it warrants zero stars.

netwallah Not so good. The premise is simple enough, and it came pretty close to working in the novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg: take Voltaire's Candide and set it in 60s America, with an innocent girl in place of the innocent young man, and, of course, make sex the central matter. The novel's Candy is led farther and farther into lovemaking because she embodies sympathy. This sympathy involves sensing the need men have for her without ever really understanding it, and so the joke is, apparently, that she has sex with various men because she misunderstands their lust for a deeper spiritual need—and this, the novelists suggest, is itself the essence of male sexuality: the wish for a compliant, innocent beauty. It's complicated satire, because at the same time it promotes and mocks arousal. Does the movie do this? No. The movie offers a series of comic bits, each featuring more or less great actors, encountering Candy: Richard Burton as the poet McPhisto, Ringo Starr as the Mexican gardener Emmanuel, James Coburn as the surgeon Dr. Krankheit, Walter Matthau as General Smight, Charles Aznavour as the hunchback, and Marlon Brando as the guru Grindl. Other parts: Anita Pallenberg, John Huston, John Astin, and Sugar Ray Robinson. The title part is played by Ewa Aulin, a young Swedish actress who's in over her head. She's pretty enough, but hardly subtle—more of a blank slate. The story, with a screenplay by Buck Henry, is mostly a picaresque sort of romp, with skits going on too long, so that the movie, despite its billing, is neither very sexy nor very funny. It's as if it were aiming for a sexier subject matter but a similar satirical approach as Dr. Strangelove, but it misses the mark nearly all the time.