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Peter Sellers,
Peter Sellers,
Ursula Andress,
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John Huston,
Ken Hughes,
Val Guest,
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: Not Rated
: MGM
: Comedies, Foreign, British Comedy, Parodies, Espionage, James Bond, UK
: 137 min.
: English, Spanish
: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this notoriously incoherent parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees to battle SMERSH's hold on the lavish Casino Royale only after organization head M is murdered. Also mixed up in the affair are several other secret agents, all named James Bond, played by everyone from Peter Sellers and Woody Allen to a chimpanzee. Despite a star-studded cast, a large production budget, and a hit score by Burt Bacharach, the film was universally panned as a muddled, overlong failure, with the occasional amusing sequence lost in the unintelligible surroundings. The participation of several screenwriters and five different directors, including John Huston, only adds to the confusion. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
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by rarcher
October 28, 2003 - 5:55 AM PST
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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because the movie is basically 4 different movies barely glued together, it makes very little if any sense
that doesn't really matter
it has some pretty funny moments
for the most part it's a fairly typical "psychadelic" film with the upbeat tijuana brass/bacharach soundtrack
and wack scenes: monkeys, cowboys, spies, whipped cream, and of course tons of girls...
i can't help wondering if the film would've been funnier if peter sellers hadn't gotten sick and had made it through the film
personally, i thought the extras (50's casino royale tv show w/peter lorre) and the stuff about the making of the film were more interesting |
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