Casino Royale

[polymorphikos]

[A Note to the Reader: This was written in a hurry whilst tired, and if you can follow and bear it then the film itself will be a breeze]

In a word: The Silliest Movie I have Ever Seen.

Opinions I Opine: To watch this movie, one must understand something that many appeared to have missed. Chiefly, the mish-mashed, ridiculous, over-blown insanity of it is the entire point. It is this that it aims for, and this that it achieves. It is not really a story, so much as every conceivable joke that could be thought of, thrown into an editing studio and spat out the other end as gold. This movie will challenge many who cannot break-out of the mold of needing a firm plot and some commonsense, but in this regard it is much like a comedic version of a David Lynch film, and I enjoyed Twin Peaks: The Movie even if I still don't get it.

So watch this for the crackling one-liners, ridiculously pretty women, lurid sets and the most completely unself-conscious approach to making a comedy that I have ever seen. It goes beyond funny, and becomes a matter of being shocked into admiration for the sheer silliness of it all. And the fun of trying to explain it to someone afterwards is immesurable.

"So then the flying-saucer kidnaps Mata Hari and James Bond's love-child, and then James Bond who's David Niven and James Bond who's Woody Allen face-off, and meanwhile James Bond is being tortured with insane hallucinations and someone has snuck into his delusions with a machine-gun bagpipe and through all this Deborah Kerr was a French Scotswoman!"

Much less a true story than very funny surrealist art. Like Salvidor Dali meets The Pythons, but odder. And lots of great satire and stuff, too. See it. Now. If only to broaden your horizons.
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[The Master™]

And to think that Casino Royale was Ian Fleming's first James Bond book... (as I am lead to believe)...

And you forgot that Woody Allen's character is JIMMY Bond, Sir James Bonds nephew..

And the scenes with Orson Welles are bizarre... So many well known actors and actresses in a very silly movie!!!

[littlemissattitude]

Originally Posted by polymorphikos

Much less a true story than very funny surrealist art. Like Salvidor Dali meets The Pythons, but odder.

Oddly enough, this description in itself makes me want to finally see this film. Don't know why I haven't seen it before now; I've known about it forever.

[Foxbat]

I liked the exploding Grouse...err...did I just dream that? I'm sure they were in there somewhere...weren't they?
So long ago...memory fading....