An incompetent private detective tries to make sense of the criminal events happening in a health spa. After a while he teams up with an equally clueless spa worker, who is a health fanatic of the carrot juice and parsnip porridge variety. Will this not entirely dynamic duo succeed in unmasking a callous killer?
Amusing but unremarkable movie, mainly of interest to die-hard fans of Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes or both. The cartoons shown during the initial titles are worth their weight in gold. Apart from that, the movie is at its best when describing life within a health spa, complete with misguided fools who do not only take an ice-cold shower at four o'clock in the morning, but actually like that kind of thing. (The various food stuffs on offer are so profoundly unappealing that they could make a Carmelite nun cry.)
For some reason or another, "Kill or cure" thinks that Pekinese dogs are so supremely and unremittingly funny that every scene showing (part of) a Pekinese is a laugh riot. Not a bad word against dogs, let alone against Pekinese dogs - they're delightful little fellows - but it would be wrong to credit them with comedic superpowers.
Amusing but unremarkable movie, mainly of interest to die-hard fans of Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes or both. The cartoons shown during the initial titles are worth their weight in gold. Apart from that, the movie is at its best when describing life within a health spa, complete with misguided fools who do not only take an ice-cold shower at four o'clock in the morning, but actually like that kind of thing. (The various food stuffs on offer are so profoundly unappealing that they could make a Carmelite nun cry.)
For some reason or another, "Kill or cure" thinks that Pekinese dogs are so supremely and unremittingly funny that every scene showing (part of) a Pekinese is a laugh riot. Not a bad word against dogs, let alone against Pekinese dogs - they're delightful little fellows - but it would be wrong to credit them with comedic superpowers.