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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)

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Peter Sellers gets to play both hero and bad guy at the same time in this comedy variation on Sax Rohmer's infamous stories of Asian super-villian Fu Manchu. The 168-year-old Fu Manchu (Sellers) is starting to run out of the youth-preserving formula that has kept him alive and kicking for the past eight or so decades, and he decides it's high time he made up some more. However, the list of ingredients includes a few items you can't usually get at your corner drug store, and Fu and his minions

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Sad, sad end to Peter Sellers' great movie career. Lackluster at best.

February 17, 2008 Comment
Video-Reviewmaster.com

Another movie that wastes Sellers.

August 21, 2003 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

For the sake of the late, great, brilliant Peter Sellers, let's all just forget this movie even exists.

July 26, 2002 Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Improves with age and comparison to newer junk

July 26, 2002 Comment
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This has two things going for it. Fu Manchu and Peter Sellers. Unfortunately that's not enough to rescue this mess. Worth a look see if you're a completist for either of the two aforementioned factors.

January 15, 2009
bradwest
Brad West

It feels like a half-baked, low-budget but completely enjoyable film. Sellers is great (again) while the plot (although a bit clumsy at times) never (or almost never...) lets him down. It's good - and it's the swan song of the best comedian in the world, a farce-like but partly precise prophecy of his end. Just like he

January 3, 2011
PetrosTser
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