Relatively tame now,
when “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” debuted, it caused a shit storm of
controversy that caught flak from the religious right because it dared dived
into the then-taboo subjects of free-love, open marriage, and recreational drug use, and
did so as a comedy satire with a take it or leave it judgment card at the end.
I daresay few of these critics even saw the film, but panned it eyes closed. In
truth, this is an often hilarious blast at both the conservative and liberal
divide, with the left actually taking the bigger punch as married Bob and Carol
(Robert Culp and Natalie Wood) each take on lovers and suck longtime pals Ted
and Alice (Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon) into their “don’t think, just feel” bed-hopping
circle. There’s no LOL scenes of slapstick comedy, just the constantly awkward
chortling of watching fools run themselves sideways because they’re afraid to
not do so, to not get angry, and to not babble on amok about “honesty” as it
were alien. Gould standouts as one very hopeless dope who cannot win, ever. B+
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