Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

crappy5pam It is fun and campy, the music shakes, the clothes are cool, and who can resist Ann-Margaret in her kittenish youth! It has a cute love triangle, and A-M's character is easy to root for. She is sweet and funny, the exact opposite of the evil, snotty British babe that the Mr. Colby. I mean, she calls her folks and takes her vitamins, for Pete's sake. Frankly, since Sir Hubert is kind of Hugh Hefner with irony, you'd think modern audiences would appreciate it. And since Tony Francioso just passed away, God rest his soul, I think they should be bringing all his performances out on DVD. A person who pans this movie has no sense of humor, and has been jaded by the sex mores of modern times. I wish they'd bring it out on DVD!

FORREST136 Ann-Margret looks lovely in this campy in this musical comedy from the 60's! She opens and closes the fim singing as she did in "Bye Bye Birdie"! Mary La Roach plays her mther again also! Its a real period piece.the clothes and the hairdos are very 60's! If you love Ann- Margret you will love "The Swinger"!

BrianG "The Swinger" was an attempt by old-line Hollywood to cash in on the "youth movement" by making a movie that was "hip" and "relevant" and that the "young people" could "dig." It fails miserably on all counts. This movie was dated five minutes after it was released, and is now nothing more than a laughable relic of what people who had absolutely no idea of what the '60s were about thought the '60s were about.Tony Franciosa plays a Hugh Hefner-type magazine publisher who rejects a story given to him by writer Ann-Margret about the "swinging" scene, because he doesn't think she knows enough about the subject to have written about it (while he, of course, knows EVERYTHING about it). So she sets out to become part of the swinging generation to show him up. The movie is nothing but leering, smarmy double-entendres, and the whole attitude is "ooh, aren't we being naughty?", which they aren't (as in the laughable "orgy" scene, where Ann-Margret gets her body painted).Ann-Margaret has always seemed to me to be the Pamela Anderson of the '60s--a totally manufactured personality trading on her looks and what passes for sex appeal. Her image was the good girl who would stop just this side of sluttiness, because she was, after all, a good girl--which made her, basically, a tease, and that was what her entire career was built on. This movie is a perfect example of that. She's basically nothing more than a somewhat animated Barbie doll, which is pretty much all that she's ever been required to be.If you want to get a feel for what the '60s was about, this movie isn't it, by any stretch of the imagination. It's fun in a goofball kind of way, but it's basically what a bunch of wealthy, middle-aged men (the people who made this movie) thought "the kids" would want to see. They didn't.

Hermit C-2 Anyone who sees this movie thinking it's about the sexual revolution will likely conclude it was a phony war. Here's a movie about the swinging '60's that was made by people still stuck in the '50's. There's lots of leering and sniggering with enough innuendo for two films, but nothing that comes even close to being arousing. Well, I guess Ann-Margret would be sexy even in a nun's habit, but that's about it. She's a writer trying to sell her story to 'Girl Lure' magazine but the editor (Tony Franciosa) won't buy it, so to get him interested she pretends to be the role model for the story's hedonistic heroine. Margret and Franciosa seem perfectly cast for this movie; unfortunately it comes off like an early version of 'Dumb and Dumber.'There's an attempt to give the film a wacky, madcap ending, but that's not much more successful than the rest of the attempts at humor. Make that intended humor. There are plenty of unintentional laughs. Films like this could give the '60's a bad name. It's hard to believe that three years after this one, audiences were watching 'Easy Rider.'