aka There's No Place Like Space. Herman's Hermits play themselves as they tour America. They are under constant watch by their manager (Bernard Fox), being followed by a would be starlet and a NASA scientist, after the astronauts kids voted to name the next rocket after the group. Then Peter Noone, (or Herman as they insist on calling him), meets and falls for Louise (Shelley Fabares).
As daft a film as it sounds! This was merely a way of cashing in on the popularity of the group in the US at the time, but has some fun moments. If you like their inoffensive 'bikini beat', and some of the corniest jokes ever, then you'll like this. Me I prefer their next film, Mrs Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter, where they had more personality and wit in the script. Bizarrely for a lad from Manchester Pete is obsessed with Brighton throughout the film, it was probably the only British seaside resort that the scriptwriters thought the audience would know of!
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