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Screenplay by Erich Segal and John Korty...
...word about nice Marcie, and since Oliver remains the same sourpuss he was at the beginning, why have we been asked to attend this stupifying tale? Is it that Erich Segal is attempting to atone for the indecent commercial success of his first story with the sober-not to say pompous-tone of this sequel? Or is it simply that his property somehow fell into the hands of Director Korty, who is one of the least spirited operatives around? Feckless questions about a feckless project, no doubt...
BACK in the mid-sixties pop art made its debut on the American scene; all the most ludicrous examples of mass urban culture shined as serious artworks. Andy Warhol got rich off his Campbell soup cans, George Segal for his over-all plaster casts of live human beings, Roy Lichtenstein for his comic strip tableaux...
...Chefs of Europe? were really smart, they would have handed the whole film over to Morley. Unfortunately, they use the actor as an appetizer rather than the main course. About half an hour after the picture begins, Morley surrenders center stage to his romantic costars, Jacqueline Bisset and George Segal; Chefs suddenly ceases to be a jolly satire on the cooking craze and becomes an exception ally talky whodunit. The movie soon dies as ignominiously as its title characters - drowning in a stew of ketchup-colored blood and rancid red herrings...
Perhaps to compensate for the movie's so-what story, Stone has also tried to fashion a Hepburn-Tracy relationship for his hero and heroine. Bisset is cast as the world's greatest (and probably thinnest) pastry chef, while Segal plays her ex-husband, a fast-food maven whose philan dering broke up the marriage. It is not the actors' fault that they walk through the film with plastic smiles: the characters' debates over the merits of haute cui sine and Big Macs are as predictable as their final reconciliation. Besides, it strains credibility that this...