It's weird to watch. So weird. But how else to have done it? No one else could've played Mae West and Mae West was 85.
So they shove it full of songs and stars and shenanigans. It's silly but it has a compulsive fascinating. Tim Dalton completely commits, whether ogling Mae or singing "Love will Keep Us Together". George Hamilton also tries but isn't entirely convincing as a gangster. Neither is Ringo Starr as a European director, but it's fun to see him. Ditto Tony Curtis as a Russian, Dom De Luise as a manager flunky type. She has a chat with George Raft in an elevator.
It's odd. So odd. So camp. Jeez, Ken Hughes made some crap in the 70s. Keith Moon is in it - he would be dead soon. Van McCoy pops up. And Alice Cooper. AND Walter Pidgeon.
It's got to be said some of the lines are funny. And the film does want to entertain. It's grotesque.
There seems to be little cult for it - Myra Breckenridge is better known.
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