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Summary: Flint does it again!
Review: Derek Flint is one of a kind with his gadgets, beautiful girls, Karate, Ballet dancing, deductive mind plus sheer audacity, extreme resourcefulness and extreme coolness under fire. After Flint, well, Bond is kind of...boring if you know what I mean. Lee J. Cobb is very funny as his Boss and you even get to see him in drag at one point. No, he's not a poofter but he is in disguise. At the start, Lee J. Cobb is set up by the sexy No.2 henchwoman in a honey trap after being drugged with a powerful narcotic in an Italian restaurant. Discredited and suspended, he desperately calls for Flint's help. Derek comes to the rescue of Cramden with exciting and hilarious results. James Coburn in a send up of Fidel Castro is super and must not be missed. The fight scene is very exciting and in real life, James Coburn had martial arts training from Bruce Lee himself, and it shows. The Karate is Hollywood showy but can be used in real life and death situations. The two big fight scenes are very well done. With bare hands and improvised weapons, Flint overcomes all. I just love the scene when his Boss asks him what happened to the 4 girls he used to have and Flint answers nonchalantly, "I'm trying to cut down". In the story,the President of the USA is replaced by a look alike under the control of the real No.1 bad guy. Shades of Saddam Hussein! The women think they have everything in control but it is the US Army officer who they think are under their thumb that has the upper hand. Not for long when Our Man Flint appears and soon all the bad guys get what they so richly deserve. The world is saved by a super hero. Can one man make a difference? YES! There are times throughout history when one man can and has made a difference.The scene where Flint in a delightful sendup of Fiel Castro hijacks the Russian plane enroute to Havana is great! He pretends to give 2 live chickens to the pilots and then ties them up, literally. Flint then infiltrates by parachute the enemy base in the Virgin Islands!The finale is somewhat unbelievable but entertaining nonetheless as Woman Power overcomes all the male bad guys. Men have one terrible weakness unless they are poofs and that is their testosterone. A beautifully seductive girl leaves them weak kneed and malleable. Deadlier than the male indeed. See it soon. It'll make your day.By Dr. Michael Lim The Travelling Gourmet
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Summary: Ed Wood Award Winner
Review: First, I highly recommend that you watch this DVD, especially in the context of the "Austin Powers" flicks. I just watched it again for the first time in many years, and looking at it some 35 years down the line, it floored me. It has got "60's Spy Movie" written all over it. Having said that, I gotta say that "In Like Flint" unquestionably, hands down is the STUPIDEST movie I have EVER SEEN!!! I mean, this movie makes "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-rama" look like "Citizen Kane". Ineptly acted, directed, and plotted (plot? Did you know that there is a top secret missile base in the Virgin Islands [which, by the way, look suspiciously like a Hollywood back lot]? And that a group of megalomaniacal beauty spa owners based there are taking over the world by means of secret brainwashing programs which they have incorporated into women's hair dryers, which permit them to control female Russian cosmonauts aboard a nuclear space platform? I didn't.) The villains in this movie are all completely and entirely brain-dead (just as Austin Powers reminded us), and the heroes are not far behind. The stunts and fight sequences are BEYOND SILLY. Nothing makes ANY SENSE! Talk about "suspension of disbelief"--you have to suspend it from a crane. "Gilligan's Island" looks like Hamlet compared to this movie. I spent the entire time with my mouth hanging open, in absolute awe and disbelief, being sure that it JUST COULDN'T get any stupider, and being constantly amazed that, indeed, it SURE COULD! This is the movie Ed Wood would have made if he had a big enough budget, and I say this as a guy who has all of Ed's movies on videotape.This is not to say that the DVD is not a whole lot of fun, and to top it off, it is cheap, as DVD's go. Buy it, watch it, you will be amazed, I guarantee it.
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Summary: Ed Wood Award Winner
Review: First, I highly recommend that you watch this DVD, especially in the context of the "Austin Powers" flicks. I just watched it again for the first time in many years, and looking at it some 35 years down the line, it floored me. It has got "60's Spy Movie" written all over it. Having said that, I gotta say that "In Like Flint" unquestionably, hands down is the STUPIDEST movie I have EVER SEEN!!! I mean, this movie makes "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-rama" look like "Citizen Kane". Ineptly acted, directed, and plotted (plot? Did you know that there is a top secret missile base in the Virgin Islands [which, by the way, look suspiciously like a Hollywood back lot]? And that a group of megalomaniacal beauty spa owners based there are taking over the world by means of secret brainwashing programs which they have incorporated into women's hair dryers, which permit them to control female Russian cosmonauts aboard a nuclear space platform? I didn't.) The villains in this movie are all completely and entirely brain-dead (just as Austin Powers reminded us), and the heroes are not far behind. The stunts and fight sequences are BEYOND SILLY. Nothing makes ANY SENSE! Talk about "suspension of disbelief"--you have to suspend it from a crane. "Gilligan's Island" looks like Hamlet compared to this movie. I spent the entire time with my mouth hanging open, in absolute awe and disbelief, being sure that it JUST COULDN'T get any stupider, and being constantly amazed that, indeed, it SURE COULD! This is the movie Ed Wood would have made if he had a big enough budget, and I say this as a guy who has all of Ed's movies on videotape. This is not to say that the DVD is not a whole lot of fun, and to top it off, it is cheap, as DVD's go. Buy it, watch it, you will be amazed, I guarantee it.
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Summary: Fun, but not as fun as Our Man Flint
Review: Flint is an interesting character, an intelligent spoof of Ian Flemming's James Bond. In Like Flint is not as strong a story as Our Man Flint, for a number of reasons, but it is still worthy of watching if you like the Action Spy Genre. The weaknesses of In Like Flint are more along the lines of in retrospect. Several of the concepts seem outdated, from the dolphin conversations to the Cryogenics to the space programs. The movie is fun if somewhat shallow. The DVD extras are very weak. There is little there other than theatrical trailers of other movies from the same period.
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Summary: way way way cool
Review: Fun sixties over- the- top zany -secret -agent fighting plot -that -threatens -world. James Coburn as Flint is The Best. The Coolest. The Hypercoolest. Fun film. Funny film. Manages to combine outrageous and understated in the same moment. You'll either want to be Flint, or you'll want to be in his harem.
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Summary: Vile, wretched, and painfully obnoxious FILTH!
Review: I love James Bond movies. I love the Austin Powers trio. When I bought this DVD, I thought it would be great (after all, Austin himself proudly endorsed it). Make no mistake here. This movie isnt that great! I can't begin to describe the dissapointment I felt after wasting my life watching this pile of junk. The jokes are not funny. James Coburn is vile. I cannot even begin to buy into the premise that he is a super sexy spy. If you are at the store and pick up this film, don't even think about it - PUT IT DOWN. It is not worth your time.
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Summary: Vile, wretched, and painfully obnoxious FILTH!
Review: I love James Bond movies. I love the Austin Powers trio. When I bought this DVD, I thought it would be great (after all, Austin himself proudly endorsed it). Make no mistake here. This movie isnt that great! I can't begin to describe the dissapointment I felt after wasting my life watching this pile of junk. The jokes are not funny. James Coburn is vile. I cannot even begin to buy into the premise that he is a super sexy spy. If you are at the store and pick up this film, don't even think about it - PUT IT DOWN. It is not worth your time.
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Summary: Watch Our Man Flint instead....
Review: I wanted to rent In Like Flint because it is mentioned in the Austin Powers movie. Reviews on amazon said that Our Man Flint was better, so I checked that one out first. I actually liked Our Man Flint. It was NOT what I expected though. People make it out to be a mockery or parody of james bond films, but I didn't think it was. When I think of parody, I think of Airplane or Naked Gun movies. This was NOTHING like those. Sure, there were a couple of funny things, like the name of the secret government agency was W.O.W.I.E. and he had his super tool that had 80 secret functions (of which you never saw him use more than maybe 6). Our Man Flint had an interesting story, and you honestly wanted to know what happened next. Even though it's a fairly old movie, it didn't seem as dated as it could have been. I liked Our Man Flint and I would watch it again.
BUS, In Like Flint? What a bad movie. It had hardly anything of the interesting story that Our Man Flint had. In fact, I didn't even watch the ending, because I DIDN'T CARE WHAT HAPPENED! I should have known, In Like Flint got some pretty bad reviews here, but after watching Our Man Flint and enjoying it, I figured, how bad could it be? Well, it was pretty darn bad! Boring AND un-interesting. I would NOT reccomend In Like Flint, but I would reccomend Our Man Flint. After watching Our Man Flint, you'll laugh even harder when watching Austin Powers...especially when his super secret phone rings!
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Summary: More fun than half of the Bond films it pokes fun at
Review: If only the Bond movies were this much fun. DVD lovers now have their patience rewarded, thanks to the simultaneous releases of "Our Man Flint" and "In Like Flint". Ever catch these two movies in widescreen on AMC network? If you have, then you know what kind of fun you are in for with these two films. These are spoofs but not in the "Airplane" or "Naked Gun" vein. These spoofs are of the "wink-wink nudge-nudge" variety instead, never over-the-top enough as to be completely silly. They poke gentle fun at the concept of a James Bond "super-rich, super-intelligent, super-suave" agent, but still let you enjoy the movie itself, rather than being a series of puns and sight gags. But if puns and sight gags are what you want, then check out the Zucker Brothers' "Top Secret" with Val Kilmer, also due on DVD any moment now.
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Summary: Coburn class "saves" world but cannot save bogus plot...
Review: IN LIKE FLINT has to be one of the most disappointing sequels ever. Master spy, athlete and super-stud Derek Flint out-Bonded 007 in the original Flint outing. But the plot...a less than nefarious scheme to take over the world employing a legion of should-be super women...utterly fails to engage as either funny or menacing. Cold-cream chemical warfare and brain-draining hair dryers may seem lame to read about as a script but on the screen its too bogus to even let slide as satire on satire (as Dean Martin's Matt Helm series was, right from the "jump" and so almost worked). OUR MAN FLINT was great...IN LIKE FLINT is not "in" like anything. Maybe that's why James Coburn didn't reprise the role a third time. If you want to see a good sequel...watch OUR MAN FLINT twice in a row. Otherwise Flint, the goofy phone and Lee J. Cobb might save the day but they can't save what is really a pretty bad movie.
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