Review of The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) by W K — 01 Jun 2008

Falls a little in-between two stools, this one; on the one hand, it's a typically perky Doris Day vehicle, like all the others of the period - on the other, it's directed by Frank Tashlin, hence the fairly high proportion of pratfalls, cream pies in the face and hi-octane slapstick chases.

Add to that a supporting cast which mostly consists of then-current TV stars, and it makes for rather a bumpy ride. Still, worth seeing for its good stretches, for two reasons: 1) Even if she were doing these sorts of films in her sleep, Doris Day'd still be bloody well worth watching, and 2) Even when handling pretty sub-par material, there was nobody who could handle comic action quite so skilfully as Frank Tashlin, either in animation or in live-action.