Smashing Time

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Summary: Silly Eye Candy
Review: Like a British cross between "That Girl" and "Dumber and Dumber," this silly movie is memorable only for some of the groovy fashions and for a cameo by the UK band Tomorrow. Closer to "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" than a movie, it is not to be mentioned in the same room as the sublime "Blow-Up."

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Summary: WHAT A SMASHING TIME IT IS
Review: One of the best british films that was ever made with top stars and a lovley young Lynn Redgrave, IAN CARMICHAEL AND NOT FORGETTING THAT BIG BOSS ARTHUR MULLARD.
WHAT A CRAKER THIS FILM IS I GARENTEE THIS TO ANY ONE.

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Summary: Rediscovered Mod Gem!
Review: Smashing Time is a terrific time capsule of a film. Part silent film slapstick, part New Wave musical, all fun, chockful of 60's clothes, decor, and hair. Plenty of sly visual and verbal humor to bolster the wonderful comic turns from Lynn Redgrave, Rita Tushingham, Michael York and the marvelous Anna Quayle. Fans of camp musical numbers will be ecstatic with Redgrave's hit single, "I'm So Young" -- check out her groovy backup singers! One caveat -- the thick North England accents take a bit of listening before you get in gear. Otherwise, sheer delight.

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Summary: Authentic psychedelic 'mod'-ness!
Review: This film is a spoof of fame, fashion, and trends in general, and is a delight from start to finish! I bought it, knowing full well of course, that it was not meant to be anything other than a lighthearted romp through the trendiest parts of late 1960's London. Which it is. The amount of visual details is quite remarkable, and the scenes of London itself have an authenticity about them which few films can match. The film is virtually a visual encyclopedia of the wacky and colourful styles of the 60's. As such, it is unmatched, even by the more commonly known film 'Blow-Up'; with the added bonus that it is simply a lot more fun. It misses being a full 5 stars because it is a bit predictable at times, and the plot lags somewhat towards the middle. However, for those wanting to see what 1960's London really looked like, I highly recommend this picture.

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Summary: Unintentionally One of the Best Portraits of Swinging London
Review: This film was originally made in 1967 at the height of the commercialisation of London as the swinging epi-center of the world. It set about to laugh at the triteness of it all...yet in retrospect it has become the greatest portrait of all that was good and bad about the era. It captures 'the moment' far more effectively than the dull, intense and far more celebrated 'Blow-Up'(1966) because in setting out to be light hearted it captures what in fact Swinging London was all about. It's colorful,funny,observant...sometimes too slap-stick for my taste...but I'd recommend it highly to anyone who has any interest in what on earth 'sixites London and all the current retrospective interest is all about.

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Summary: Smashing Indeed
Review: This has to be one of the forgotten gems of the 60's. Hilariously funny, a riot from start to finish and it captures swinging London in an "Austin Powers" sort of way. Being from the UK myself its hard to believe that it's not available over here. If you want an easy to watch and very funny slice of 1960's Britain then this is the film for you.

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Summary: Smashing Indeed
Review: This has to be one of the forgotten gems of the 60's. Hilariously funny, a riot from start to finish and it captures swinging London in an "Austin Powers" sort of way. Being from the UK myself its hard to believe that it's not available over here. If you want an easy to watch and very funny slice of 1960's Britain then this is the film for you.

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Summary: Smashing Time
Review: This here is the most far-out, waaay outtasite, supra-funky musical of all time! Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave are Brenda and Yvonne, two country girls in search of swinging Carnaby street where their dreams of excitement and success will be fulfilled. Watch these birds go from humble dishwashers to dashing hipsters living out their Mod adventures. . . Yvonne as a new recording artist with her unmistakable singing voice and Brenda as the fashionable and hip "face of the 1970's". A zappy comedy farce that will leave your mouth watering for all the groovy clothes, and your heart pounding, because it's not often you get to see scenes of London's Carnaby street in the mad sixties. This is one movie the gang and I agree about. . . it's a favorite all around!

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Summary: Bloody brilliant! A lot of laughs!
Review: You have to see this, if only to see a very young Lynn Redgrave! She and the always-talented Rita Tushingham are hilarious as a couple of young northern English lasses who decide to move to Swinging London in the middle of the 60's! Redgrave is a riot as a bossy over-bearing ego-maniac of a best friend, whose self-centeredness earns her all the bad karma she gets. Likewise, Tushingham plays to perfection the down-trodden buddy, the "plain jane" of the two who winds up, as all good underdogs do, well and truly on top! Best remembered as that weird 60's movie that ends in a meltdown at London's epitome of the swinging 60's - the Post Office tower - Smashing Time is fabulous, and I'm thrilled to find it on video in the U.S. Buy it!