Heh, I guess I did accentuate the positive to exclusion of all else, maybe that wasn't fair. Well, there are some quotes from Graham Chapman on the wikipedia entry, or paraphrases of quotes, which cover the film's flaws fairly well. They mainly have to do with timing. The director, Mel Damski, didn't seem to have much of an instinct for the kind of humour in the script by Chapman and Cook. Another problem cited by other critics is the bad mixture of American and British humour though I didn't really see this as a problem. But the film certainly doesn't reach the heights of a Monty Python film or Young Frankenstein, the movie from which most of the American cast (and Marty Feldman) seems to've come. There was enough to make me smile, though.
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