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Consider: Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood) are young and rich and good looking and hip (?). They live in Southern California and one weekend, decide to go to an Esalen-esque sensitivity institute. There they discover love and humanity and liberation...
...Elliott Gould) and Alice (Dyan Cannon) are young and rich and good looking and square (!) . They are friends of Bob and Carol and are soon freaked out and shocked by Bob and Carol's new lifestyle, which includes such things as talking to head waiters as if they were human and having extra-marital affairs right out in the open as if there were nothing wrong with...
...consider the conflict that forms the basis for Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker's new film, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice: Who is right? Liberated Bob and Carol or conventional Ted and Alice? Need I tell you? (Hint: This movie was made in Hollywood, of and by and for Americans...
...that simple. The conflict in this movie isn't that simple because Bob and Carol are hip (?) and Ted and Alice are square (!) Right?! Of course, right. From the very beginning. in that Hollywood fashion we all love and adore, writer-producer Tucker and writer-director Mazursky have stacked the cards against Bob and Carol. They do this by making Bob and Carol not so much liberated as pseudo-liberated. Bob and Carol think they are hip, but as the audience happily discovers, they are actually phonies and assholes. Robert Culp is a middle-aged Peter Fonda who wears beads...
...lovable squares. They have your sympathies from the outset-not only by default, but because they really are swell people. They want to be able to smoke pot without coughing; they want to believe in Esalen; they want to dig wife-swapping. If they rather than Bob and Carol, had gone to Esalen, they might even have been saved...