Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

quridley It's your standard Jerry Lewis directed film. While a great actor and praised by the French for how weird his directing is, Lewis is not a funny director. He's so indulgent, ego driven and dismissive of the audience. The whole thing is an obvious love letter to Dean Martin that remakes the style of the old Martin/Lewis comedies. But people expected an Ocean's 11 spinoff, not Sammy Davis Jr doing a Jerry impression for 3/4ths of the runtime. For Jerry fans, it is one of his most bizarre and well budgeted films so Lewis makes his directing the star. It's never funny but it is experimental technically. It's dated and somewhat offensive politically: racism is treated as a joke, minorities buffoons, women are ornaments and Lewis, Sammy and Lawford are way too old to try to be hip or youthful. I enjoyed the minor action scenes which were the biggest stretch for Lewis and there is a clever plot in there (not written by Jerry) but it's trashed for long unfunny mugging takes and unoriginal slapstick that slows everything down. Some will find that genius but it's obviously Lewis exploiting the opportunity he was given and loading up on filler rather than thinking hard or saying anything or putting the sauced fun on-set on to the screen.

Michael_Elliott One More Time (1970) * 1/2 (out of 4) Charles Salt (Sammy Davis, Jr.) and Christopher Pepper (Peter Lawford) are once again on the run after being connected to a murder of the rich Lord Syndey Pepper (Lawford).ONE MORE TIME really shouldn't have been made and I'm really not sure why it was. This here is a sequel to SALT AND PEPPER, which apparently made enough money at the box office where the producers thought a sequel would be a good idea. For some reason, Jerry Lewis was brought on to direct the picture. I viewed this shortly after the legendary comedian passed away. Days after I went through countless talk show appearances and various interviews and yet I never heard him talk about this film.With all of that said, I wasn't a fan of the original picture and this one here was pretty much more of the same as we get Davis and Lawford running around, trying to be funny but being letdown by a pretty bland screenplay. There's just nothing fresh or original here and both stars just appear to be going by the numbers. What's even stranger is that Lewis stayed behind the camera yet he has Davis doing this strange scenes that just don't work. Davis is pretty much asked to act like Lewis but it's not funny and it's more awkward than anything else.The film has some fairly poor pacing and there simply weren't enough laughs here to make the film worth sitting through. If you enjoyed the first film then perhaps you'll enjoy this one a tad bit more than I did. The highlight is without question a cameo by a couple British stars.

bravo78 An unfunny disjointed mess of a movie. Directed by Jerry Lewis, it's apparent the movie was a vehicle for Sammy to channel the comedic stylings of Lewis. Safe to say, Sammy is no Jerry.The plot has Lawford assume the identity of his wealthy slain twin brother by getting the police to believe it was his character (Pepper) that was killed. And he keeps this little secret from his best buddy Sammy (Salt). Movie moves to big castle and no hilarity ensues.Lewis has Sammy engage in some comedic 'bits' where Sammy has difficulty crossing the street, difficulty with a teapot, difficulty with a water heater and unwittingly encountering some Satanic ritual. All fall flat. Really flat. The teapot scene was just pathetic.And unlike their earlier pairing in 'Salt and Pepper', Sammy and Lawford now seem devoid of chemistry. 'One More Time' is for Jerry Lewis and Rat Pack fans only.

ShadeGrenade I've always had a soft spot for 1968's 'Salt & Pepper', in which Sammy Davis Junior and Peter Lawford played 'Charles Salt' and 'Christopher Pepper', trendy London nightclub owners caught up in an espionage plot.Two years later, the dynamic duo were back, only this time the results were nowhere near as successful.The Salt and Pepper club has been closed down by the police, and they have to pay £500 each or face prison. Pepper asks his snooty rich twin brother, Lord Sydney ( also Lawford ), for the money. The lord agrees provided that both men leave the country for good. After a heated row, Pepper decides to get his own back by impersonating his twin in order to secure a free meal in a posh restaurant. Returning to Lord Sydney's apartment, however, he finds him dead, shot by an African blow-pipe. The sneaky Pepper decides to go on play acting, and make the world think that Christopher Pepper is now dead. The killers are still out there, however, and want back the diamonds Lord Sydney stole from them...So we have moved away from the world of espionage and into the realm of crime, making the film an altogether different affair, lacking the wild action sequences of the first. Replacing Richard Donner in the director's chair is none other than Jerry Lewis. We get an idea of what a Lewis and Martin film might have looked like had one been made in the late '60's. Davis Junior, in particular, behaves like Jerry, especially in the scene where he prowls around Pepperworth Castle to the accompaniment of the theme to '2001: A Space Odyssey', released two years earlier. Another funny moment is when Tombs ( Sydney Arnold ) the elderly butler lumbers into Pepper's dining room. By the time he reaches them with the food Salt and Pepper have acquired five o'clock shadow.Like a lot of Lewis' movies, there is an unfortunate tendency towards sentimentality and self-indulgence. Salt's grieving for his friend brings the comedy to a screeching halt, and his impersonation of 'The Chocolate Dandy' should have been left on the cutting room floor.Michael Bates' incompetent 'Inspector Crabbe' was supposed to reappear ( he is in Michael Avallone's novelisation ). Instead we get Leslie Sands as 'Inspector Glock', who's nowhere near as amusing. The book also suggests that the movie was written originally for a much bigger budget; there is a funny scene where Salt and Pepper wreak havoc in an aeroplane. It is not in the finished film.As was the case with 'Salt & Pepper', the British supporting cast are first rate, in particular Allan Cuthbertson, Dudley Sutton, Anthony Nicholls, Moultrie Kelsall, Peter Reeves, Bill Maynard ( as a Bondian villain with a shaved head ), and Glyn Owen. The music was by Les Reed, co-composer of many Tom Jones hits. Check out Pepper's groovy lounge; you need sunglasses just to admire the decor.Things To Look Out For: a cameo by Christopher Lee as 'Count Dracula' and Peter Cushing as 'Baron Frankenstein'! Not up to the first film then, but some good moments on display and overall a lot better than many of the Lewis vehicles of that period.