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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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It is a funny picture - not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits.
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.
...a series of verbal and visual gags strung together on the pretense of a plot, but the jokes come so fast the film is bound to make you laugh.
Bananas (1971) is the story of a New Yorker who becomes a South American rebel leader, to impress his political activist love interest Nancy (Louise Lasser).
The popular conception of the arc that Woody Allen films have taken over the past 30 odd years is that it goes from silly to serious. It is certainly true that his early films (this film, What's Up, Tiger Lily? and Take The Money and Run, for instance) are faster, sillier, and imbued with a heavy dose of slapstick,
March 23, 2011Super Reviewer
Trying to get over his breakup with Lousie Lasser, nebbish Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) winds up in the fictional banana republic of San Marcos, eventually (and reluctantly) rising to the position of El Presidente. From the opning scene (with Howard Cossell covering the political assassination of San Marcos'
February 7, 2008
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