7/10
Still Fun If Rather Weird
16 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This final Hope/Crosby "Road" picture was made a decade after their prior one, and in this one, they interact mostly with then-newer stars, with Dorothy Lamour only appearing toward the end. The movie begins with the vaudevillian song-and-dance number "Teamwork" where the stars prove they can still sing, dance, and interact like they did before.

But this story is different from their past ones. It begins conventionally where they run a scam in India, but Hope has an accident and loses his memory, and Crosby ends up taking him to a lamasery to get an herb to cure his partners amnesia. Mistaken for secret agents at an airport, they are given a rocket fuel formula which the cured Hope memorizes-and when the spies discover what happened, Hope and Crosby are taken to the headquarters of "The Third Echelon", and end up being placed into a spaceship and sent into outer space. Quite the road trip.

The song-and-dance numbers are fewer but still good, but as indicated above, the story is crazier than their previous ones, including the ending. Still reasonably entertaining otherwise.
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