The Bed Sitting Room
Director: Richard Lester
Year Released: 1969
Rating: 2.0
Post-apocalyptic silliness in which several survivors of WWIII aimlessly roam around the rubble and wreckage of London - a few of them, because of the mutating effects of the bomb blasts, 'morph' into other objects (a dog, a parrot, an armoire, an entire apartment complete with windows). As a precursor - and influence - on the Monty Python troupe's level of absurdity it has merit, but as a whole it doesn't work - there are a few funny one-liners and ideas (Dudley Moore and Peter Cook as police officers in a makeshift hot air balloon certainly defies explanation) but the hit-to-miss ratio is unfavorable (sometimes it can be so bizarre it just comes across as infantile) and the pregnant woman plot thread isn't enough to hold together what's essentially a series of sketches (and feeble satire). At least the cast members look like they're having a nice time.
