Smashing Time

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Audience Member This is one of the strangest and least categorisable sixties comedies I've ever seen. It's about two Northern girls discovering London (Lynn Redgrave and Rita Tushingham riffing on the roles that made them famous) and is stuffed with cameos by recognisable character actors of the time, like Irene Handl, John Clive, Peter Jones and Anna Quayle. Parts of it are excruciatingly dreadful, but other sequences are genuinely funny. And the incidental shots of sixties London are strangely poignant. Worth persevering with. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member It's aged well and now can be seen in a more Cult classic role. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member "It's fashionable to be gay." Awesome terribly camp/kitsch piece of cinema. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Turns out to be kind of exhausting, unfortunately, but you have to respect them for really going all-in on the juvenile slapstick and escalating weirdness. This is a movie that not only features a pie fight, but also a spray paint/manure/brown sauce/soap fight, not to mention Rita Tushingham dressed as a cat while lacing some liquor with laxatives. And the songs are a hoot, especially since they're mostly in voiceover and frequently both tone-deaf and screamed at high volume. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Ian's says it's like me and Tina. Still a bit TOO MUCH!!! ha! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Ok, this is very silly and wacky yet I found myself really liking it! This is a great satire on Swinging 60s London. Lynn Redgrave and Rita Tushingham play two girls from the North of England determined to make it big in swinging London. What follows is a series of crazy situations as the unlikely pair do find fame only to realize it's not really worth it. This film is so kitsch, with songs to match ("I can't sing but I'm young!"). If you love 60s style then your bound to like this, but this is not one to be taken seriously and overall is just a fun piece of nostalgia. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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