A comedy-drama-romance that packs all its fun in the first half, when Goldie Hawn, as a fairly scatterbrained Jewish girl, enlists in the US Army. The basic training she undergoes provides good fun in the Abbott and Costello tradition, and Goldie's triumph against the odds is both funny and uplifting. The second half of this picture is rather a different kettle of fish. From the moment Col Robert Webber tries to force himself on our heroine in an aircraft after she has (somewhat unconvincingly) chickened out of jumping, the film dips into a romantic nosedive. With Goldie's involvement with a French doctor, the story, suddenly shot in pastel colours, loses the spirit of adventure that had sustained it so well earlier on. Still, for the fun of the first hour, it remains well worth watching, and it won Goldie an Oscar nomination.

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