There’s A Girl In My Soup

Featuring an incredibly dated vibe and an overall feeling of pointlessness, There’s A Girl In My Soup never quite comes off as anything more than a relic of the 1970s – though star Peter Sellers’ effortlessly charismatic performance often elevates the proceedings to something that’s mildly watchable. Sellers plays Robert Danvers, a sex-crazed TV host who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a free-spirited 19-year-old named Marion (Goldie Hawn). Though Robert initially wants nothing more than to bed the woman, Marion eventually wins Robert’s respect and the two soon find themselves spending all their free time together – much to the chagrin of Marion’s on-again-off-again boyfriend (Nicky Henson’s Jimmy). That There’s A Girl In My Soup is based on the play by Terence Frisby comes as no surprise, as the film’s stagy and relentlessly talky atmosphere certainly never belies its theatrical origins. And while the movie is relatively cute and entertaining at the outset, there’s simply no denying that there reaches a point at which the whole thing wears out its welcome – with this feeling exacerbated by a particularly aimless third act (in which Robert and Marion frolic in the South of France).

** out of ****