Not as good as many had hoped, but theres room to grow in the days ahead.

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What an extravagantly muddled, borderline incontinent film this is.

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You might call it genre-hopping, except that this would imply some degree of intent and control.

More likely its genre-slipping, genre-skidding; sometimes endearing but never knowingly coherent.

She looks like Toyah Wilcox and she sounds like Dick Van Dyke.

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Hardly anyone else in the movie even rises to one note.

Sorry, but cosmology plus eye-catching designer S&M latex does not add up to a movie.

The biggest disappointment is that despite Cameron Mitchells efforts the entire endeavor seems strangely familiar.

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Today, it feels playfully stale in the current cinematic landscape.

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