Very daft but likable sixties spy spoof with a great soundtrack (with bonkers vocals sung over the closing titles '
I love your Z.O.W.I.E. face'). A cross between the sixties Batman series and James Bond with just a touch of 'The Prisoner' thrown in. There's hypnosis, freezing gas, an automated document incinerator – the dogs again (from the first film) – cryogenic cabinets, Lee J. Cobb (Flint's boss) in drag, Flint learning to speak dolphin, exploding golf balls, a bunch of girls with brain-washing hairdryers, a doppelgänger president and a final fight in outer space. To be honest it isn't very good but even so it's still a light, enjoyable sixties confection brightly filmed in technicolor (the mock Moscow location all done in a bright red colour palette) and it's one of the last films to be shot in Cinemascope. Production and set design is very good, but the special effects in outer space are badly dated.
Review of In Like Flint
