This was made at a time when A & C were just starting to slip down their comic peak. They'd been hammering out scores of films for years by now and the audience was starting to tire of the increasingly obvious antics. Too many movies and not enough good material. This time around the thought was to see what comedy could be mined by throwing the boys in a girls school. Surprisingly they took no advantage of the "cheesecake" factor and decided to go with athletics. So we get wrestling, basketball, and road chase antics for the most part. A & C are in good form and still quite energetic at this point. There's a dice-in-Lou's-stomach scene that's inventive and funny. A few other gags work here and there. Mostly it's now viewable as "ancient comedy" and acceptable on those terms. For veteran comedy watchers the wrestling and oyster stew scenes are painful old wheezes as is much of the other slapstick material. The Jonah and the Whale comic bit is tiresome, as well. But not as unwatchable as the musical interludes that are jammed into the proceedings, as they always are with these wartime A & C vehicles (in fact, this is where A & C get out of their film vehicle and stand on the sidelines awaiting their opportunity to get back into their own movie). This is only for A & C fans and the easily entertained (and/or nostalgia types that grew up with these movies)--- others beware.
Review of Here Come the Co-eds
