... In the cultural moment when Barbie has been revamped as a totem of female empowerment this can only be seen as the original feminist doll movie.

This is considered in some (OK, most) camps to be one of the worst movies ever made, but don’t you believe it. It’s not a good film, but to its credit, it’s also not an awful one.

Hell hath no fury like a scorned woman, especially one who could avoid a divorce altogether by merely stepping on you.

Her towering torso wrapped in a makeshift sarong apparently manufactured from bed sheets, Hayes is a nightmare caricature of the rolling pin-wielding wife tracking down an errant husband. 'It's Mrs. Archer! She's on a rampage!' cries the town doctor.