Bananas (1971)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 3
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 1
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One of Woody Allen's earlier, more slapstick-oriented efforts, Bananas tells the story of Fielding Mellish (Allen), a neurotic New Yorker who follows the object of his affections, Nancy (Louise Lasser), to the fictional Central American country of San Marcos, where she is involved in a revolution. Nancy wants nothing to do with Fielding, but he soon becomes a guest of the country's dictator (Carlos Montalban), before accidentally becoming the leader of San Marcos himself. Fielding is eventually
Apr 28, 1971 Wide
Jul 5, 2000
MGM Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Woody Allen
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Louise Lasser
Nancy -
Carlos Montalban
General Emilio M. Varga... -
Natividad Abascal
Yolanda -
Jacobo Morales
Esposito -
Miguel Ángel Suárez
Luis -
Stanley Ackerman
Dr. Mellish -
Axel Anderson
Tortured Man -
Hy Anzell
Patient In Operating Ro... -
Jack Axelrod
Arroyo -
Conrad Bain
Semple -
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Beeson Carroll
FBI Security -
Ted Chapman
Policeman -
Howard Cosell
Himself -
Dagne Crane
Sharon -
Ed Crowley
FBI Security -
Don Dunphy
Himself -
René Enríquez
Diaz -
Princess Fatosh
Snakebite Lady -
Dorothi Fox
J. Edgar Hoover -
Dan Frazer
Priest -
Allen Garfield
Man on Cross -
Martha Greenhouse
Dr. Feigen -
Roger Grimsby
Himself -
Arthur Hughes
Judge -
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David Oniz
Sanchez -
Charlotte Rae
Mrs. Mellish -
Sylvester Stallone
Subway Hood -
John Braden
Prosecutor -
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Baron DeBeer
Ambassador -
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David Ortiz
Sanchez -
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Tigre Perez
Perez -
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Robert Dudley
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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (4) | DVD (8)
It is a funny picture - not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits.
Top CriticBananas is chockfull of sight gags, one-liners and swiftly executed unnecessary excursions into vulgarity whose humor for the most part can't make up for content.
Wonderfully incoherent.
Allen's view of the world is fraught with everything except pathos, and it's a view I happen to find very funny.
Rapid-fire gags and some inspired one-liners qualify this as an early classic from Allen.
One of the early, funny films that a more mature Allen would dismiss later in his career, but nevertheless worth seeing again and again.
Although some of the humor falls flat in this early Allen comedy, his satire of revolutions and revolutionaries is perpetually topical; subsequent events in Central America have only enhanced the film's appeal.
A study of the Cuban Revolution by way of Freedonia
Inspired by the Marx Brothers comedies (specifically Duck Soup), Woody Allen made a leap forward as filmmaker in his second feature, a zany satire composed of riotous sketches and incoherent but funny one-liners.
An attempt to capture the same zaniness the Marx Brothers had in Duck Soup.
I still love Woody's masked parents.
Yes, Allen has made better movies -- lots of them -- but I'm not sure he ever made anything funnier.
A severely overrated Allen project. This campy string of unfunny gags does not hold up.
One of Woody's earliest, silliest, and funniest flicks.
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- Fielding Mellish: I'm doing a sociological study on perversion. I'm up to advanced child molesting.
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