Average Rating: 4.6/10
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Average Rating: 4.9/10
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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this notoriously incoherent parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees to battle SMERSH's hold on the lavish Casino Royale only after organization head M is murdered. Also mixed up in the affair are several other secret agents, all named James Bond, played by everyone from
G, 2 hr. 30 min.
Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy
Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, Michael Sayers, Billy Wilder, Val Guest
Apr 27, 1967 Wide
Oct 15, 2002
MGM Home Entertainment
All Critics (32) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (23) | DVD (13)
Poor 007 is now lost in a hall of distorting mirrors.
Top CriticPeter Sellers has some amusing gags as the gambler, the chance of dressing up in various guises and a neat near-seduction scene with Ursula Andress.
Out of five directors -- only McGrath manages to connect with this brontosaurian James Bond parody.
The few good aspects of this farce are vastly outweighed by the bad.
It's the sort of reckless, disconnected nonsense that could be telescoped or stopped at any point.
...a definitive example of what can happen when everybody working on a film goes simultaneously berserk.
Silly 007 spoof tamer than Austin Powers.
Despite being not officially a Bond film this is good solid, entertaining action.
Chaotic and astonishingly unfunny.
Surrealisticly bad
A mess. Casino Royale is two hours and eleven minutes of non sequitur.
Now Craig assumes the mantle, and you know, he does OK.
No less than five directors, including John Huston, and eight writers, including Billy Wilder and Ben Hecht, tried to salvage this lengthy, laden all-star Bond spoof--to no avail.
It's cheesy, cheesy, cheesy.
Even less amusing than the more 'serious' Bond films.
...only a very small minority of those acquainted with the more arcane aspects of 1960s cinema are going to have some appreciation for CASINO ROYALE.
Watching this movie is a serious drag.
Even more awful considering the wasted talents.
One day I'll post a real review for this 2 and a half hour nightmare from depths of the ninth circle of Hell, but it'll take a while to write. As in several weeks or more.
February 6, 2012Super Reviewer
Bizarre madcap comedy that isn't really that funny, but has a great taste. In the vein of later comedy masterpieces like Blazing Saddles, but with none of the humor. The cast is fantastic and everyone gives great performances, but the film itself just isn't very good.
December 24, 2007
Super Reviewer
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