Rotten
It goes overboard in pressing for its goal and consequently suffers from over-contrived treatment.
Variety Staff, Variety
What's New Pussycat?
How you cats will laugh ... when you see the answer to the comedy question of the year!!!
1965 · 1h 48m · Approved
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Clive Donner
Overview
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Director and cast
- Clive Donner Director
- Peter O'Toole as Michael James
- Peter Sellers as Dr. Fritz Fassbender
- Woody Allen as Victor Shakapopulis
- Romy Schneider as Carole Werner
- Capucine as Renée Lefebvre
- Paula Prentiss as Liz Bien
- Ursula Andress as Rita
- Michel Subor as Philippe
- Eddra Gale as Anna Fassbender
- Katrin Schaake as Jacqueline
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
29%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Clive Donner's stylish direction harmonizes well with Woody Allen's inspired screenplay to yield an elegant entertainment, proving once again that Allen is a better scenarist than a director.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Somewhere in the proceedings there were sane and skillful artisans at work.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten
What's New Pussycat? is a comedy built on so many shaky assumptions that it ought to sue for nonsupport.
TIME Magazine
Fresh
The mixed results are entertaining, if flawed.
Time Out
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