Time has not been kind to this film, which has dated about as well as the outfits worn by the hippies in the movie, yet it remains funny and entertaining throughout, largely thanks to Peter Sellers' spot-on comic performance as Harold, a mild-mannered Jewish lawyer turned counter-culture "freak." Few British actors could play Americans as convincingly as Sellers, and his mid-life angst and forced embrace of the counterculture still hit their target today. Jo Van Fleet and Joyce Van Patten are able comic foils to Sellers, as is Leigh Taylor-Young as the sexually liberated Nancy. While Larry Tucker and Paul Mazursky explore the counterculture in their screenplay with only a bit more depth than they did while writing the TV series The Monkees, they at least sympathize with their subjects; while most films of the era depicted hippies as either dangerous or a bad joke, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! argues that, while they might seem goofy, their motives are ultimately healthy. This light-hearted spirit makes the film a lot easier to sit through than most of the anti-longhair diatribes that hit screens around the same time.