Watched it last night--July, 2006...
...and have to admit i was hooked. i wanted to turn to something else, but i just couldn't.
i'm not a big fan of bob hope movies, but i do enjoy those that he made with lucille ball. this film included some wonderful examples of early 60s clothing, sites & sounds, autos, architecture, etc. and the dialog was well written, if sometimes a little too contrived.
i think the only negative i'd pin to this film is something that i also find true of their other films together...they are portarying characters that are about 10 years younger than both actors obviously are. i mean, c'mon... if the characters were written as late 40s to early 50s it would have been believable. that bob hope and the actress playing his wife are the parents of grade school aged sons is a huge stretch. and lucy is photographed through a whole lotta filters, even though her character has young children. they even reference that they have been married for 13 years... sorry, these folks have been married at least 25 years.
and how the hell many cigarettes did lucille ball smoke in this film? eww gawd. oh, and her lighting was a little harsh at times, too.
i did, however, completely believe that they could have been interested in each other romantically and (brace yourselves) physically. though how anyone could get excited about bob hope when he had his pants pulled up midway between his navel and his arm pits is beyond me.