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What's New, Pussycat? reaches out for a world about to come, a world where all repression will be abolished and where abnormality will disappear. It reaches with humor, for laughter may be the best way to shrug off the puritanical past. Those who do not believe in such an enhanced conception of human liberty may find the film shocking and worthless. But those in the vanguard in the war against inhibition are sure to respond to this new and freer conception of humor...
...Pussycat is about as organized as a "happening." The loose plot concerns a young rake who is perplexed at his Don Juan complex and seeks the aid of a sex-starved pyschoanalyst. The analyst, played by Peter Sellers, believes in "group therapy," which means orgies. The final orgy, held at a small chateau just outside Paris, includes everything from timebombs to Ursella Andress...
Film buffs will recognize Pussycat as a distant cousin of such sophisticated international comedies as A Shot in the Dark or The Pink Panther, which are inevitably set in Paris and inevitably include Peter Sellers. These jet-set films have been getting increasingly wild; just think of how far they have come since Charade. In fact, Pussycat even pays homage to its pedigree and allows Cary Grant a walk-on part. Audrey Hepburn apparently was too modest to appear at this melee...
...PUSSYCAT. In Bill Manhoff's romantic merry-go-round, a neurotic prostitute (Diana Sands) has a priggish book clerk (Alan Alda) running around in sidesplitting circles...
What's New Pussycat? is a comedy built on so many shaky assumptions that it ought to sue for nonsupport. It seems logical to anticipate fun aplenty when a cordon of first-rate talents gather to make the fur fly, but on this mournful occasion all hands appear joined in a conspiracy to leave Pussycat out in the rain...