This is part movie, part variety/comedy sketch show. The gags are all over the road, some funny, many falling flat on their faces. The Herb Alpert soundtrack sounds terribly dated, and the main theme becomes headache-inducing. Woody Allen is featured as a star but has the tiniest of cameo roles. But then William Holden's cameo is even smaller, and entirely pointless. The bit about John Huston flipping his wig was pretty funny.
The movie has its moments but seems almost perversely determined to keep reminding you that it's a loose collection of skits and gags. The funniest part of the movie is the first part ("doodle me, James!"); a fair amount of boredom after that. Peter Sellers, so brilliant in "Dr. Strangelove" just a few years before, is flat and uninspired. Plenty of women to ogle, but that's hardly a cinematic achievement.
A bizarre time capsule from the 1960's, something like "The Magic Christian." If you're not a cultural anthropologist or a fan of the absurd, it would be best to avoid. Bond buffs looking for a genuine parody will be disappointed.
The movie has its moments but seems almost perversely determined to keep reminding you that it's a loose collection of skits and gags. The funniest part of the movie is the first part ("doodle me, James!"); a fair amount of boredom after that. Peter Sellers, so brilliant in "Dr. Strangelove" just a few years before, is flat and uninspired. Plenty of women to ogle, but that's hardly a cinematic achievement.
A bizarre time capsule from the 1960's, something like "The Magic Christian." If you're not a cultural anthropologist or a fan of the absurd, it would be best to avoid. Bond buffs looking for a genuine parody will be disappointed.