YMMV / Sextette

• Adaptation Displacement: Not many people know that this was an adaptation of West's 1961 musical of the same name.
• Audience-Alienating Era: The film came about after West had been coaxed out of retirement. It ensured that her career somehow managed to end on an even lower note than the notorious film adaptation of Myra Breckinridge eight years prior. Given that West died a year and a half later, she never had a chance to live it down, her prior reputation notwithstanding.
• Bile Fascination: The only reason to watch it, as Jabootu's review noted.
• Fetish Retardant: West is presented as a memetic sex goddess, a good 40+ years after her Hollywood prime, complete with obviously false teeth.
  Rex Reed: "How do you like it in London?" a reporter asks. "Oh, I like it anywhere," she drools, her left eye taking a look at her right eye.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Keith Moon's scene as a loopy, likely Camp Gay fashion designer is probably the only performance worth watching.
  • Alice Cooper only appears in one scene near the end, but he manages to give one of the better (if not the best period) musical performances in the film.
• Questionable Casting: It's generally agreed that Walter Pidgeon, who plays Mr. Chambers, would have been a much better choice to play Marlo's love interest than Timothy Dalton due to the former being far closer to Mae West's age than the latter.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Dalton, much as he did two years later in the campy Flash Gordon, plays his role with complete earnestness. Meanwhile, DeLuise does his best to deliver bad jokes, and shows off his seldom-used dancing skills to great effect.

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