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Summary: No wonder it doesn't have a sequel!!!
Review: If a James Bond novel is to be butchered in a spoof, 007 should not be an older fellow.One highlight:Bond has a nephew!
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Summary: Dette var en kjæmpe dårlig film.
Review: Nei nei nei nei nei................
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Summary: Shaken, Stirred and Stupid!
Review: What a shame that Ian Fleming's best book is transformed into this, as they say in James Bond's Britain ... rubbish. It's a spoof that has nothing to do with the novel, little to do with 007, and plenty to do with a director who somehow produced an oyster of a film out of a pearl of a book.To all subsequent filmmakers who somehow swindle the rights to classic Bond stories: If you don't have the talent to make a good spoof, please sell the rights to somebody who does. Mike Myers, for instance.
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Summary: James Bond Laughs Galore
Review: A rather rouguish film spoof about the funny side of James Bond 007. Great actors and actresses abound in a movie on the same plane as Its a Mad Mad Mad World. Peter Sellers is himself-actor extraordinaire- and Woody Allen give superb performances. The soundtrack is my all-time favorite, Burt Bacharach, Dust Springfield, Herb Albert are gigantic. A must see flick
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Summary: 7 Bonds are featured in the hit-and-miss "Casino Royale."
Review: This 1967 spoof of Ian Fleming's novel, not to mention the film series itself, is entertaining overall, but is not without its problems. Some scenes are utterly hilarious, while others leave you wondering, "What's the point?" David Niven, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress, and Woody Allen head up the impressive cast. The climax of the film is insane, but entertaining nontheless. It would be a travesty not to mention Burt Bacharach's splendid score, including the Oscar-nominated "The Look of Love." It's worth watching; the main hurdle is ignoring the fact that the filmmakers wasted a great Ian Fleming thriller.
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Summary: This is a good, funny movie for those hard-core 007 fans.
Review: The producer of "Casino Royale" got the rights to the James Bond novel, and not wanting to compete with the official series, made this 007 spoof. Sir James Bond is in retirement, and the storyline follows his return to espionage and to battle his enemy--his nephew--Jimmy Bond.
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Summary: Swingin' 60s on Film!
Review: Funny! Despite it's bad reputation, if you are a NON-square, ya gotta check this out. Lots of in-jokes, droll humor and laugh-out-loud stuff. Sure, it's a bit "all-over-the-place" but that's half the fun. The go-go dancing Indians, the cavalry charge into the casino, the Dr. Caligari sets, the pop-art sets and psychedelic FX, the Frankenstein monster... it's all like a mix of The Magic Christian, Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, Austin Powers, The Monkees "Head" and James Bond thrown into a Swingin' Sixties blender. And all those great stars strutting their stuff!! Don't worry about the plot... this is eye candy. If you want a generous 60s fix, just sit back and let this flow over you. All that and the Burt Bacharach score. I'm glad I bought this.
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Summary: Silliness can be taken too far.
Review: Great cast, cinematography, great location shots in Scotland and England, but really the movie is just too silly. There really is very little artful comedy here. I don't think enough effort was put into it for that. This strikes me as a movie a lot of rich movie industry people got together to make for fun, to celebrate their riches (and career success) and have a big six week party.
Don't waste your time, unless you're REALLY bored and have absolutely nothing else to do.
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Summary: 1960s Train Wreck
Review: I think part of the attraction of this movie is its distinctive Sixties elements. So psychedelic, so mod, such intrigue. The music and clothes and sexy women.
But CASINO ROYALE is a disaster as a film and a comedy. It's AUSTIN POWERS without the laughs.
It's such a disaster that the star, the emotionally-disturbed Peter Sellers, walked off the movie and they never stopped the production. (Depending on which books you read, Sellers walked off either after his dead mother visited him in a dream to tell him to, or when Orson Welles mistook him for Woody Allen at an elevator and he ran off in a huff).
David Niven is then forced to carry on the chaos as it noisily crashes to its climax, the kind of madness that would be much better used in BLAZING SADDLES seven years later.
There are moments, but very few. Woody Allen's part at the end at last hits on the zaniness that should've been there from the start.
Only for pure Sixties nuts.
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Summary: Oh, God, why this dog? Why? Why?
Review: This movie is not bad. That would be good. Is awful. It sucks. It stinks to heaven. The world has never experienced such a dog since Attila the Hun.
No plot. No story. Lots and lots a talented people wasted. Peter Sellers, why you? And Orson Welles? Gimme a break! Beautiful Ursula. Well, perhaps the only thing worth watching there. Et tu, Woody Allen? Maybe he needed the money. Who knows? And the impossible end. Oh, Lord, they even throw in the U.S. Cavalry. But no, if you still want to watch this disaster, do it at your own risk. It may kill you, really: it's that bad.
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