'Life is a Circus' provides further evidence that despite Val Guest serving his apprenticeship as a writer for Will Hay his thrillers were usually far superior to his comedies.
Although effectively a remake of the Crazy Gang's earlier 'Alf's Button Afloat', it more resembles 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', with Shirley Eaton as a country lass in sweater & jeans - who claims that her friends rather improbably call her 'Butch' - as their Snow White.
As the genie Lionel Jeffries provides a satisfactory substitute to Alistair Sim in the earlier film; while the most cherishable moment comes when Flanagan & Allen briefly re team to perform 'Underneath the Arches'.
