so very 70s

The cast was made up of semi-big names from the early 70s and what a trippy ride down memory lane. I found this movie cute but a bit tedious, mostly because the acting was so tepid. I mean no one really rounded out their characters or interacted well with each other. It was all cardboard cut out dialouge and shallow characterizations. But what made it fun was a certain nostalgia for those days. The actresses had the "look" that we young girls wanted - the hair, the clothes, sunglasses, pantsuits, hip huggers, bikini bodies... and the pants on the guys, were they really that tight? The plot was clever, but if the acting is bad, not much can be done to bring a movie into the Hitchcock level of greatness. The right elements were all assembled but nothing really clicked into place. You didn't care about any of the characters, they were all uniformly irritating in their own ways. It's as if they all recited their lines alone and then later the scenes were edited together. Raquel Welch was especially bad. I for one can't understand why so many viewers found this movie so great. The story isn't any more or less compelling than an Agatha Christie movie. The initial parlor game scenario was clever, but to sit through the drawn out resolution was tiresome. It could have been cleaned up a bit, pared down in many places, and then it would have been the fun romp it was intended to be.