Completely goofy in the same way producer Sam Katzman made his earlier teen rock musicals, this is hysterically funny drive-in B movie dreck that is so much fun to laugh at. Instead of dealing with music, the establishment is griping about the use of LSD as mentioned in a teen underground newspaper whose publication results in the expulsion of several students (James MacArthur, Susan Oliver and Mark Goddard, all in their thirties at the time), and the presence of professor Richard Todd who tries to promote the medical benefits of the drug.
The opening scene shows a tour bus going down the Height Ashbury section of San Francisco, showing more hippies and druggies than seen in "Central Park" in the movie version of "Hair". After the real protest begin, Todd is seeing in a white robe sitting on a throne, overlooking everything as a psychedelic love-in begins, with more flower power and lava lamp style photography than practically every anti-establishment late 60's movie ever made. And don't forget the big white rabbit! That leads into one of the most far out musical variations of "Alice in Wonderland" that I've ever seen.
A female reporter identifies Oliver and Goddard as students, indicating that there are supposedly of high school age, and it's when Oliver begins tripping that the weirdness of the film really goes into overdrive. A rather overdone flashback to such lifestyles of the Timothy Leary cult, but certainly very funny nearly 60 years later, with the overly done psychedelic photography getting lots of giggles. If they ever do a "Summer of Love" retrospective at museums where the art of film is celebrated, this should lead the way.
The opening scene shows a tour bus going down the Height Ashbury section of San Francisco, showing more hippies and druggies than seen in "Central Park" in the movie version of "Hair". After the real protest begin, Todd is seeing in a white robe sitting on a throne, overlooking everything as a psychedelic love-in begins, with more flower power and lava lamp style photography than practically every anti-establishment late 60's movie ever made. And don't forget the big white rabbit! That leads into one of the most far out musical variations of "Alice in Wonderland" that I've ever seen.
A female reporter identifies Oliver and Goddard as students, indicating that there are supposedly of high school age, and it's when Oliver begins tripping that the weirdness of the film really goes into overdrive. A rather overdone flashback to such lifestyles of the Timothy Leary cult, but certainly very funny nearly 60 years later, with the overly done psychedelic photography getting lots of giggles. If they ever do a "Summer of Love" retrospective at museums where the art of film is celebrated, this should lead the way.