There was box office in capitalizing on, and for some, touting, the growing California counterculture in this other films. Not a bad trip yet was likely on their radar. The 'Hollywood' not involved in the mess of "Skidoo" or the heady "Head" made around the same time, went for a a trip presented as a more accessible and intimate story and got themselves a more 'important' actor in Peter Sellers for '...Toklas'.This is a must-see anyway; well-crafted and I like the bit of a look at period Los Angeles. The smugness and progressive's way of dissing the "square" middle-class using the movie amongst others to give them the finger makes it difficult to enjoy the parts they intend as humor. I enjoy Sellers so much more another 1968 film "The Party" an affectionate, goof, warm-satirical look at their own fabu crowd up in the 'hills'.

It's my favorite film and i more happy because screenplay was written by my favorite movie writer Paul Mazursky. It was his first screenplay for full-length movie after many works for serials. Also he was an Actor .... Hippie on Sidewalk (uncredited), executive producer, Soundtrack (lyrics: "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!" (1968) (uncredited)) Was wondered that Mazursky was born in my country - Ukraine) First what i feel after this movie it's freedom. I saw it 20 or more times and it's still seems fresh. I advise you to see this movie first time alone. After this movie i told myself i'll never marry) My favourite character - Herbie - sincere dude, which open mind and soul of his stupid stereotype brother. Nancy are my love for rest of my life. Thanks Director for opening Leigh Taylor-Young' talent. I saw her later in Soylent Green (1973) movie of Harry Harrison. And for final must say that soundtrack for I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! one of the best psychedelic score i ever heard. Enjoy and be yourself! Good luck! Om

This film was a real disappointment. I found it evidently manufactured by an older mainstreaming Hollywood machine. Jokes were very dated. Jokes seemed to be for those unfamiliar with "The Hippie Problem" facing conservative America. Jewish humor was overdone. Music was forgettably bad. Big splashy posters were good. I recall that hippies lost their clothes at the drop of a hat. Hippies did not sleep with boots on their feet. Marxian humor couldn't save "overcrowding small room" scenes. Not a funny movie. A timepiece that was assembled by old Hollywood. Many hippie references in movies produced in American 1960's missed the mark. Sensationalizing costumes and shuffling wig wearing young people climbing in and out of psychedelically painted jalopies did not reflect the times.

I don't feel like I can rate this movie much higher than 7, although I did rather enjoy it. It began slow, but once Sellers meets his female match in Nancy's character, things start to move. I was personally a fan of all the "inadvertent" troubles Sellers's character kept getting into once he picked up the new psychedelic car, and how he was getting beaten down by all of the things in his own life. I'm sure that, at the time, the scene with the "groovy" brownies was quite new and perhaps had not been seen at all on TV or in movies, but it seems pretty predictable now (particularly with its use in "That 70s Show" and Never Been Kissed). The best thing about it is that it seems to provide a pretty good snapshot of the late 60s, from which my own remembrances of the era are in the form of not being born until 7 years after this movie was made.