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Summary: Slipped, lacks appeal
Review: This is a good movie for people who don't like to think too much. While better than watching (un)reality TV or monster truck rallies, as far as I'm concerned this isn't a film for fans of Woody Allen, it's just a series of really thin gags which make me want to. Woody's "Sleeper" is a more sophisticated version of "Bananas" (and it was better shot) and of the two, get the former. This is one of those "earlier, funny ones" referenced in the usually underrated "Stardust Memories". Like "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex", it isn't a high point of his career.
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Summary: You Must Suck Out The Poison
Review: This is classic Woody Allen from the early years. Allen's earlier films were satiiric masterpieces with a generous helping of slapstick thrown in and this is one of the better ones. There are so many funny scenes but when Allen is kidnapped by the rebels in a fictional latin country and wakes up in their camp the results are hilarious. His training includes the "Suck out the poison " line in the event of snakebite, Each of these tough rebels is asked to repeat..."What do you do ?" Response.. Suck Out the Poison..then Wood responds " I never suck the leg of anybody who I'm not engaged to"
The dinner at the Dictators mansion is equally hysterical....Allen shows up with a bakery box full of patries and El Presidente turns up his nose and says." Prunes...I don't like Prunes."
Just a sample of countless funny and memorable lines.
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Summary: Good
Review: This is so bad, it's good. Allen humor is like few others...he has a unique way to make people laugh.
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Summary: Woody goes bananas!
Review: This is surely in the top 5 funniest film ever! The scene where he buys porn is laugh out loud funny.
Rating:
Summary: Short and sweet
Review: This is the ultimate film for people who say Woody Allen plays the same role every film. I noted some Marx Brothers homages-you wonder why it's called Bananas? Well, it's a nod to the Marx Brothers' Cocoanuts, there first actual film (the Marx Brothers films' titles didn't make sense, either (at least for Paramount)). There is also a harp solo, which Harpo Marx commonly did. Although not as funny as Annie Hall, Bananas has some great moments-especially when he buys food for an entire army and "plays dead" against the car. The infamous finale is good, too. All in all, worth renting. Thank you for taking the time to read my review and feel free to leave me a helpful/not helpful feedback. God Bless America!
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Summary: Still funny after 28 years
Review: This stands as one of Woody Allen's finest pure comedies. My favorite moment is during the scene in the restaurant when Fielding orders food for thousands of guerilla soldiers.After the counter is covered with hundreds of small white-tagged to-go bags, Fielding asks the waiter "which one is the roll"....classic.
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Summary: A Decent Slapstick
Review: Though by no means Woody's best movie , if you are stuck with an hour and a half to kill you could do worse .Woody plays his usual bumbling , neurotic ,weirdo persona while Louise Lasser (his first wife) plays a pouty,voluptuous feminist .The quality of the comedy is mostly slapstick with few of the trenchant existential wisecracks for which we admire movies like "Hanna & her sisters", "Annie Hall" & "Manhattan" etc etc .
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Summary: Sillyness at its best
Review: When I saw this movie was available on Amazon I immediately started giggling. I originally saw it many years ago, and some of its hilarious scenes started coming back to memory. Two of my favorites are the interpreter who translates English to English(with a Spanish accent), and the scene where Woody Allen's character Fielding Mellish, cross examines himself on the witness stand. If you are a silly heart, who loves to laugh, and enjoys slapstick humor, then you'll go Bananas for this movie.
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Summary: It's a coin toss, but I think this is Woody's best!
Review: With kudos for Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters/Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Bullets over Broadway, I'm giving Bananas, with Woody in his most zaniest self, the top spot. Although I like the reflective depth he gave to the later pictures mentioned, the tour-de-force neurotic Woody is the purest distillation. I place Woody second only to the Marx Brothers, although he does have several over-indulgent outings which distract from his reputation (although most in the last five years have been solid, if not spectacular, efforts). Thanks for the humor Woody!
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Summary: Still Hilarious
Review: Within a brief period of time Woody made Take the Money and Run, Bananas, and Sleeper, establishing himself as the funniest actor-director in ages. Like Take the Money and Run, this parody is mostly a series of sketch pieces, strung together by an unlikely premise. Just as when I first saw it over 30 years ago, some of the bits don't work, but more do. I particularly liked Howard Cosell commenting on a political assasination, and Woody trying to seduce a beautiful young revolutionary.
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