This globe-trotting (mostly set in China and India) comedy-adventure has a freewheeling "anything goes" spirit and some daring stunts, but its slapstick is mostly crude and its script aimless. Director Philippe De Broca and star Jean Paul Belmondo apparently tried to recreate their success of the previous year ("That Man From Rio", which I have not seen - yet), but this film is little more than a collection of stunts. Though if you want to see Belmondo in drag and performing a striptease (!), this is the right place. Ursula Andress, in her prime, gets second billing but is not in the movie much for the first hour or so; then she becomes a co-star. ** out of 4.
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