Streisand at an early age conquered the music world and then followed that up with the huge Broadway success of Funny Girl. When that was filmed, became a big hit and won her an Oscar, she was signed for two more big Hollywood blockbuster musicals at the same time. The most famous was miscasting her in the extremely bloated film version of the then longest running Broadway show in history, Hello, Dolly. She then made this, but by then Dolly had more or less tanked and movie musicals were starting to lose their appeal after so many had been made in the 1960's and this was sort of rushed out without much fanfare with no reserved seats and such that existed back then for the "big" Hollywood movies and of course, it didn't do all that well. And that's a shame as it is a much better movie than Dolly ever was. Streisand is much more comfortable in this more age appropriate comic role. It's subject matter, reincarnation, was unusual for a movie musical and it is a fun film despite the thoroughly terrible decision to hire Yve Montand as her love interest. Talk about miscasting! He is way too old and he's not very good either and damages this quite a bit. The whole film's enjoyment pretty much comes from Streisand and if you like her, you will want to watch this and if you don't.....beware, because she's the show. In regard to the casting of Streisand's first three leading men in the above mentioned three musicals, could anything be more odd than having this twentysomething being romanced by Omar Sharif, Walter Matthau and Yve Montand? Two are way too old, all three are miscast and none can carry a tune. Strange indeed.