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It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The good news at least is that this isn't the worst movie I've ever seen; that distinction still goes to "Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet". But it does beg the question why the distinguished Vincent Price would get involved in a project like this. I can only assume that even though he mostly appeared in serious roles, he had a self deprecating humor that was laid bare here. Come to think of it, I did see him more than once on comedy variety programs of the Sixties, including 'The Red Skelton Show' and 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'.The fun here is in the spoof of the James Bond spy film genre, and you almost had to be there back in the early and mid-Sixties to know that the beach party flick was all the rage at drive-ins across America. All the girls were on display in their skimpy bikinis and that was about all the excuse film makers needed to churn out these flicks before they wore out their welcome. Frankie Avalon and Dwayne Hickman appeared in a handful of these, and interestingly their character names in this film were used in reverse in the same year's "Ski Party". In that one Avalon was Todd Armstrong and Hickman was Craig Gamble.The title character is portrayed by Vincent Price, a mad but opportunistic scientist producing female robots in gold bikinis who he sends out into the world to seduce the planet's richest men and have them sign over their wealth to Goldfoot. His eerie mansion was a gold mine itself in numerous sight gags, including the boxing attaché case, the skeleton in the sarcophagus that reminded me of of Price's 1959 movie "House on Haunted Hill", and the heads-up cameo by Annette Funicello. And don't blink or you'll miss the appearance of motorcycle madman Eric von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) from the beach movies. Because of my timing in catching the picture this morning, I also happened to notice one of those 'Big Eyes' paintings that's the subject of a current release in theaters right now. Funny how that works sometimes.The producers of the film had the good sense to have The Supremes sing the title tune, even though I couldn't detect Diane Ross's voice in the mix. But it sounded a lot better than if Sam and the Apemen had been given the chore. The story itself is mostly senseless, and I couldn't help thinking that Vincent Price might have been commenting on his role here when he told his assistant Igor (Jack Mullaney), who dropped an ice cube down a woman's back - "You have just reached bottom".

"Dr. Goldfoot" (Vincent Price) is a mad scientist who has invented robots in the shape of beautiful bikini-clad women and has programed them to marry the richest and most influential men in the world in order to seize their wealth. As luck would have it his incompetent assistant, "Igor" (Jack Mullaney) accidentally targets a secret agent by the name of "Craig Gamble" (Frankie Avalon) who works for an organization known as the "Secret Intelligence Command" (SIC). When Dr. Goldfoot realizes what has happened he immediately sends the robot named "Diane" (Susan Hart) towards the intended target, "Todd Armstrong" (Dwayne Hickman). But the damage has been done and Craig is determined to find out what is going on. At any rate, rather than detail any more of the movie I will just say that this was an okay comedy but it could have been much better. For starters, other than Susan Hart none of the other striking young ladies were given much film time. Instead a good portion of it was wasted on an extremely long chase scene which quit being funny after the first few minutes. But if nothing else I enjoyed the performance of Vincent Price and over all I rate this film as about average.

Even though this is a funny spoof of the dreadful James Bond franchise and has good performances, the film is visually boring and ugly. I wanted location shots beyond the view opening travelogue images. I wanted interesting camera work. Even music by the Supremes does nothing to overcome the pervasive ugliness in what might have been wonderfully stupid fun. Even Susan Hart cannot redeem it.I confess that I finally turned over to a "Simpson" parody of Christmas movies. I screamed for mercy when I realised what this movie had in store for me. The Simpson's parody of Sesame Street was terrific. Patti Chandler, Mary Hughes, Salli Sachse, and even China Lee appear here. Her brother Mike Lee knew one of my friends. That gives this work a personal touch. I do very much like the outside images from San Francisco when they do appear. This movie had a lot going for it; I wish it had been enough. It just is not good enough to rate a 9. It is not a nihilist masterpiece. That was "Ski Party" with the same cast and themes.

Taking advantage of the current craze over mad scientists, wacky world-domination schemes and kittenish bad girls, A.I.P. studios (rather smoothly) segues from the "Beach Party" flicks to this Bondian slapstick outing (with several "Beach" players in roles and cameos). Frankie Avalon mugs like a rubber-man playing ordinary Joe in San Francisco who stumbles upon intriguing scheme hatched by Vincent Price's Dr. Goldfoot: rob the world's wealthiest men by seducing them (and their checkbooks) with comely female robots. Price, in gold satin elf slippers, is relaxed and fun, and their are cute bits from Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck and a wordless Annette Funicello, but Avalon--attempting a bumbling, klutzy persona--single-handedly turns the proceedings into dim-witted camp. Dwayne Hickman isn't much better, and has to contend with some really sketchy writing (even after getting evidence that his wife is robot, he still wants to woo her in bed!). The movie isn't badly made, it has a cute theme song (with vocals by the Supremes!) and some minor-league laughs, but "Austin Powers" aficionados won't be thrilled with the girls (none with the exception of star Susan Hart are particularly gorgeous) nor the gold bikinis, which look shapeless by today's standards. ** from ****