Thursday, June 17, 2021

Movie review - "Bananas" (1971) ***

 This comedy has a great idea - Woody Allen goes to south America heartbroken and winds up leading a revolution. Some very funny jokes, and I love the banter with Louise lasser. I wish her part had been bigger and that she'd gone to south America with him. The main issue with the film for me is the lack of relationships the lead character has... the revolutionaries he deals with are sketchy as are the people in the US. It wouldn't have been too hard to personalise a villain, use the love interest more, use a best friend more.

Allen would learn all these lessons. And it is funny.

His hair is very messy. The messiest of any comedy star?

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