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  Review by cait ★ 8

  thought this film couldn’t get any worse.... and then woody allen appeared

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  Review by Steve P ★★ 9

  Bond-a-thon - Bond B-Sides

  A stellar cast including: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet, Orson Welles, Daliah Lavi
  5 Directors
  4 Art directors
  3 Cinematographers
  3 Screenwriters 
  Burt Bacharach and academy award nominated song "The Look of Love"
  And a preposterous runtime

  The result?

  Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

  Where are the laughs?

  Least it's a reasonably diverting piece of 60s kitsch but disappointing to say the least.

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  Review by A. J. Black ★★ 7

  'Suggested by Casino Royale by Ian Fleming' is perhaps the most telling early factor in the opening credits of Charles K. Feldman's memorable 'adaptation' of Casino Royale, because it's about as faithful to the book as James Bond himself is to any girl he meets! To say this movie is a curio is a titanic understatement, because frankly it's one of the most baffling and absurd things ever committed to celluloid; an episodic, scattershot attempt at satire that frequently misses every target it aims for, often wasting a truly top-drawer cast of screen legends, comedians and well known character actors from both sides of the pond. Importantly too... this is *not* a Bond movie, and should never be classed as…

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  Review by Edgar Cochran ★★★★½ 17

  Oh my God! This is splendid brilliance! Visionary and ahead of its time! It totally blew my mind!

  This is many, many things:

  ✓The modern father of landmark parody filmmaking
  ✓The contemporary British offering of spoof cinema right when Mel Brooks was cinematically born in comedy
  ✓The spot that initiated Monty Python's wheel of comedic inventiveness
  ✓The stuff that the Zucker/Abrahams trio watched while younger before inventing their own trend of parodies
  ✓The fusion between British spy films, Americana, European auteurism, The Three Stooges, Buñuel's surrealist comedy, neo-noir and Fellini-esque cinematographic artistry in Technicolor... years before Fellini made Casanova (1976)!!!

  If not approached as Surrealism, you might be losing even more from this film than what you should retain from…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★ 3

  not without its charms but largely a baffling ordeal.

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  Review by 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧 𝗥𝗢𝗪 ℝ𝔼𝕍𝕀𝔼𝕎 ★

  I'm not going to review this one because I don't want to end on a low.

  Just know, I watched it so hopefully, you don't have to.

  But on a more pleasant note, I finished off with the full list:
  
  Bond Ranked: boxd.it/c9wuY

  Hope you've enjoyed the reviews, and thanks for taking the time to read them.

  007 🔫🚶‍♂️🚠⛷🚤🦈🛩🇬🇧🍸🏔🚇🚀🌊🖋

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  Review by DBC ★★½ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  A Year of Film History Challenge 2019
  (watching a little bit of film history month by month, decade by decade)
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  Don't watch Casino Royale if you want to see a James Bond film.
  Don't watch Casino Royale if you want to see a comedy film.
  Don't watch Casino Royale if you want to see a good film.
  But... if you want to see an exercise in swinging 60's style stretched past the breaking point by too many cooks in an overlong romp with one of those classic ludicrously over-the-top comedy endings where everything on screen just goes completely batshit crazy (seriously I think I saw a chimpanzee with Trump hair pop up out of nowhere like a gopher coming…

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  Review by Calvin Dyson ★★½ 4

  I mean, I laugh a bit. I’m not proud of it, but I do.

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  Review by Will Sloan ★½

  Here's a tip for the fellas: the secret to getting your gf to watch a movie with Woody Allen is to devise a ruse where you watch all the James Bond movies together, even the non-canonical ones.

  (Just kidding bb, I know you'd watch anything with me - love u)

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  Review by danielle ⚡ ★

  james bond movies ranked

  even back then they knew woody allen was going to hell

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  Review by BREADSWORD ★★★★★

  every james bond movie is just "what if we gave a sociopath a ton of swag"

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  Review by Matthew Noble ★★ 3

  "It's depressing that the words 'secret agent' have become synonymous with 'sex maniac.'"

  Five directors.
  Seven 007s.
  Four good scenes.

  So this is the worst Bond film. Can't say I'm surprised.

  "You're the fucking shittest James Bond ever! You're David fucking Niven!"
  - Jamie, In the Thick of It