If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Apparently, this film, Pao de Acucar, ran out of money and wasn't completed until later. It stars Rhonda Fleming and Rossano Brazzi. Fleming is Pamela Jones, an actress from America in Brazil on vacation. There, she meets and falls in love with Claudio DeSantis (Brazzi), a coffee plantation owner, and they marry.Pamela isn't used to being a traditional wife, and Claudio has to be away for work much of the time. It's boring for her. She decides to leave him, but she's in for a surprise.If it weren't for the color -- and how can you make a film with Rhonda Fleming without making it in color -- and Fleming's beauty and outfits -- this film wouldn't be worth watching. There's really not much to it.A photographer once photographed Fleming with no special light, and also in unflattering, awful light, and guess what, she looked the same - gorgeous. While she was not Meryl Streep, she was a pretty good actress as well, though, with her looks, she wasn't given many opportunities to show her abilities. She acquits herself well here, though this wasn't a high point in anyone's career.

. . . INSTANT LOVE illustrates how hard it was for rich White Americans to stay out of trouble in the 1960s. First, they quarreled with Cuba. Then they vied with Vietnam. A rumble with Russia always seemed in the offing. INSTANT LOVE is so offensive it's a wonder Brazil didn't declare war back on America. The redhead U.S. actress character "Pamela Jones" is so clueless that she does not even realize that Texas has been part of America since 1865, when she brazenly asserts that Brazil is a country "bigger than the United States and Texas combined." Her Harvard-educated extra-marital "friend" Gary works as an "efficiency expert" for the U.S. government. About the only thing at which Gary is efficient is causing trouble. His bumbling threatens the Brazilian coffee crop, and he almost ruins Mardi Gras by diverting the parade onto an ocean liner. Perhaps the best way to view INSTANT LOVE is as a "lost episode" of I LOVE LUCY, in which all the characters have been replaced by their understudies, and a half-hour of second-rate material has been stretched out for 90 minutes.

Truly awful..not even up to a cult standard..you know, the bad films we love to watch. This is not one them, poor Rhonda Fleming, I hope she got a good vacation. The sound quality is bad and the film suffers from poor editing among so many other problems. Neil Sedaka, in his one scene, sounds like he is singing in an echo chamber. I liked the title song and the sights of 1960's Brazil are lovely. Some of Fleming's wardrobe is outstanding except for the dress she wears to the Festa, not flattering at all. She does wear a fabulous cocktail black dress in a "seduction" scene.Watch this film only if you have time to kill

An American actress (Rhonda Fleming) visits a college chum in Brazil, meets a wealthy coffee-grower (Rossano Brazzi), and marries him before the visit is over. Envisioning him as a Latin lover, she finds herself married instead to a workaholic with an old-world point of view. But as a modern woman used to working for a living, whose every need is now supplied by a household full of servants, she struggles to adjust to the cultural differences and to fill her days with useful activity.Enter an oily American (William Redfield), a U.S. government efficiency expert in Brazil on assignment, who pursues our heroine at every opportunity. Eventually, she turns his relentless advances to her own advantage in a desperate attempt to resolve her situation.Burdened by a trite script and at times seemingly ponderous proceedings, Pão de Açúcar is saved by lush photography, gorgeous costumes, a brilliant orchestral score (mid-20th century European style), and the efforts of its stars.What is truly remarkable, however, is the near-seamless continuity in the final edit of this film that the stars and others associated with it thought was never finished due to financial insufficiencies.