Typical Blake Edwards comedy, covering familiar ground while tickling potentially amusing male-female gender issues, ultimately settling for timeworn, routine gags. Womanizer Perry King is killed off and reincarnated as sexy Ellen Barkin--a man in a woman's body! How will he handle the men who lust after her...and what about those pesky high heel problems? Flaccid time-waster didn't even attract top talent: Barkin, so promising earlier in her career, manages to whittle her character's personality down to two vaguely different expressions (repulsed and pi**ed off), while her supporting players (Jimmy Smits, Tony Roberts and Lorriane Bracco) fumble about trying to find the tone of this piece. Edwards doesn't really hope to be racy here; he wants just enough saucy material to liven up the trailer, while the film itself is devoid of courage. *1/2 from ****
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