5.1 average IMDB user rating?!

I agree with most of the above that this film is brilliantly anarchic with some great scenes and memorable music. It's almost like a comedy sketch show with extremely funny individual scenes and hilarious one-liners. The fact that it was brought together by Val Guest, the second worst director of all time (after Ed Wood), only increases it's appeal.

A competent director could have created something more cohesive but less memorable akin to other chaotic movies of the time, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and What's Up Pussycat.

It's either the best bad, or worst good film of all time.

This movie is a total mess and a disaster...it is well documented...even Woody Allen said that it's horrible...

The Berlin section of the film and the bits with Dr. Noah in his lair were genuinely funny. Aside from that - and a few other scattered good bits that here and there - I can't say it's any misunderstood masterpiece.

I guarantee you, that there are plenty of movies, that some people love, but you think suck.

To the OP:

A great cast doesn't make a movie great.

I watched this again last night for perhaps the 4th time over the years.

Positives:
Best sets EVER
Most beautiful women on the planet in one movie. (By the dozens)
Great cinematography.
Great Cast
Great Choreography


Negatives:
No script (perhaps the worst written big budget script in cinema history)
Not funny (at all)
David Niven's Stutter (dumb)
Debora Kerr's performance. (Perhaps the worst in cinema history)
Peter Sellers didn't know he was in a "spoof" comedy movie
Mindless continuity of anything resembling a story
Music was too playful, even for a spoof movie
Too long (endless)

However, I still enjoy watching it as a piece of 60's cinema history. I love seeing all of my favorite old timers in their young prime.

As far as the rating is concerned: It's generous.

You can like aspects of it, as I do. Heck anyone can. If you're nutty enough you can even like the whole movie itself.

But that doesn't make it good. It's an attempt at humor by letting the rich kid write the screenplay. He's got some novel one-liners, but this film really needed a seasoned talent to make it come alive.

5.1 is too high. This deserves to be rated lower. It is a 4/10 at best.

I'm really surprised it rates 5.1. It is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, unwatchable (although I have suffered all the way through it once). It's not that I "don't get it". I get everything in it. It's just that it's junk, a total waste of a lot of talent.