Did you know there was a sequel to What's New Pussycat? I didn't - and I'm guessing most people don't either, because this flopped. I'm surprised they even bothered to make it without stars - the first movie threw in everything but the kitchen sink: O'Toole, Allen, cartoons, Tom Jones, leading ladies. This does it on the cheap.
There's a young Ian MacShane in the lead, a neurotic playwright living in Rome who seeks a shrink and has troubles with his love life and worried about his hair falling out. It's a role that clearly calls out for Woody Allen and MacShane is spectacularly miscast. Severn Darden plays his shrink, which results in unflattering comparisons with Peter Sellers. Anna Calder Marshall is his wife, Beba Loncar his mistress. Veronica Carlson is among the women he beds. They are all bad. John Gavin threatens to liven up things as a Rock Hudson style egotistical actor but the material ultimately does him in.
Rod Amateu writes and directs terribly. Lalo Schifrin did the music - one of the few top rate talents associated with the film. An awful, unfunny piece of garbage.
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