Product: The Owl and the Pussycat [VHS] (1970)
Rating: 2.0
A Very Stupid Movie
Much of what's left in my collection to review are the movies I didn't much like. Here's an example. This was Barbra Streisand's first non-singing role, and it's just stupid. I mean the role is stupid; Doris, the character she plays is stupid, and the movie is stupid.It all starts when Felix (George Segal), a frustrated writer, notices the girl across the air shaft accepting money from a gentleman caller. He's mad because she is apparently the one who complained that his typewriter made too much noise late at night. But she plays her TV, with a big bang-bang shoot-em-up movie, with the window open because her apartment is too hot.When Felix tells the landlord that he saw her taking money from a man, the landlord kicks her out of her apartment. She shows up at Felix's door carrying her TV and a small tote containing her night clothes. She is loud, rude, irrational, uneducated, wears the most ridiculous pajama outfit, and has nothing to recommend her except a reasonably nice body. She causes Felix an enormous amount of trouble, so of course he falls in love with her.Of course. I suppose if you have a good body, and know how to look as pretty as possible (there's a scene about that), you don't have to have any other redeeming qualities.