In what has to be one of the worst comedies of the 1960's (and makes Jerry Lewis movies look like the Marx Brothers), this fiasco is one that has to be seen simply to demonstrate what a bad comedy looks like. Soupy Sales is a janitor in a military science lab, and somehow he gains the ability to levitate and fly. For some reason, there are two assassins out to get him, and there would be more if they weren't somehow killed off in the opening scenes. Then, there's a man hating congresswoman (veteran actress Doris Dowling) who spends a press conference belittling everything that this branch of the military is doing, blaming the incompetence of the male gender. Somehow, when she sees Sales, all her negative thoughts about men go out the window, and she spends the remainder of the film pursuing him, weather kicking a cab driver to the back seat of his own cab and driving, later getting on a scooter and even scuba diving to try to find him.
His girlfriend (Beverly Adams) and her father (Arthur O'Connell), who happens to be his supervisor, follow him along the beaches of what appears to be Florida as do the assassins and officer Edward Andrews. Meanwhile at headquarters, science lab mascot Judy the chimp (remembered lovingly as Debbie the goop on "Lost in Space") keeps raising and lowering the lever that controls Sales' flying abilities. While there are a few surprise cameos, the laughs are juvenile based, more for the "Gilligan's Island" and "Hogan's Heroes" crowd than sophisticated comedy. I might have laughed more if I happen to be 10 years old, and while I did laugh a few times (a star for each of them), mainly I was embarrassed to even attempt to get through this in its entirety.
His girlfriend (Beverly Adams) and her father (Arthur O'Connell), who happens to be his supervisor, follow him along the beaches of what appears to be Florida as do the assassins and officer Edward Andrews. Meanwhile at headquarters, science lab mascot Judy the chimp (remembered lovingly as Debbie the goop on "Lost in Space") keeps raising and lowering the lever that controls Sales' flying abilities. While there are a few surprise cameos, the laughs are juvenile based, more for the "Gilligan's Island" and "Hogan's Heroes" crowd than sophisticated comedy. I might have laughed more if I happen to be 10 years old, and while I did laugh a few times (a star for each of them), mainly I was embarrassed to even attempt to get through this in its entirety.