It's not fun but it's like a colourful museum and every Bond fan should see it. And because there is so much happening with so many actors I like I got something out of it.
Where to start:
- Woody Allen has genuinely funny gags with the firing squad
- I liked Peter Sellars as a Bond type
- Orson Welles is a terrific Bond villain
- quite a few women have agency: Ursula Andress as Vesper, Barbara Bouchet as Miss Moneypenny, Joanna Pettet is the hero of her own segment
- Terence Cooper gets a big intro then disappears
- Deborah Kerr really really overacts
- I don't think David Niven was anything like Bond, in the books or movies
- Bouchet and Jackie Bisset should have been real Bond girls they are gorgeous
- there is a lot of genuine cleverness
- there is a lot more laziness
- it piles it on but then many 60s comedies did (The Great Race, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)
- the music score is great - the theme and "The Look of Love"
- there's genuine emotional moments which could have (don't laugh) been more mined: Andress falling for Sellers, Pettet and dad Niven
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