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What's Up, Tiger Lily?

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What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)

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Reviews Counted: 16

Fresh: 14

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 7/10

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?, Woody Allen's first directorial effort, started life as a low-grade Japanese James Bondian spy drama called KEY OF KEYS. Executive producer Henry G. Saperstein bought the... WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY?, Woody Allen's first directorial effort, started life as a low-grade Japanese James Bondian spy drama called KEY OF KEYS. Executive producer Henry G. Saperstein bought the film and hired Allen to dub in an entirely new soundtrack, featuring brand-new dialogue (cowritten by the new voices) that turns the story into a riotously ridiculous search for the perfect egg salad recipe; Saperstein also added scenes with the Lovin' Spoonful to give the film a hip 1960s feel wholly out of touch with what is occurring onscreen. Allen did shoot some new scenes for the film, in which he describes the genesis of the idea and its place in film history, claiming that the first film to do this was GONE WITH THE WIND. The new story features the Japanese cast playing such characters as Phil Moskowitz, Terry Yaki, and Suki Yaki, battling to find out just the right amount of mayonnaise to mix in with chopped eggs. Many of the jokes are about food and sex, two things that Allen would go on to explore more and more in his films. [More]

Starring: Woody Allen, Tatsuya Mihashi, Mie Hama, Tadao Nakamura

Starring: Woody Allen, Tatsuya Mihashi, Mie Hama, Tadao Nakamura, Frank Buxton, Len Maxwell, Louise Lasser, Mickey Rose

Director: Woody Allen

Director: Woody Allen
Producer: Woody Allen
Composer: Jack Lewis

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Jul 15, 2003

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  • An evil mastermind with an addiction to egg salad! Sadistic, torture-hungry double crossers! Gorgeous girls hungry for lovin'! A weird marriage between a cobra and a chicken! Only one man is daring, clever and sexy enough to take on this kind of mission: superspy Phil Moscowitz! Woody Allen spoofs the spy thriller in one of his funniest films, a nonstop frenzy of skewed wit, hilarious parody and sidesplitting wackiness. With dialogue rewritten and redubbed for a Japanese James Bond-style movie, What's Up, Tiger Lily? turns the sex-and-danger world of filmdom's spy game upside down!
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    Amusing redub from Woody Allen.

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    04/09/07
    Rob Gonsalves
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    10/10/05
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    07/15/05
    Jonathan R. Perry
    Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

    Japanese spy flick dubbed into incomprehensible English; funny for a while but ultimately tedious

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    06/21/05
    Daniel Eagan
    Film Journal International

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    06/07/05
    Emanuel Levy
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    01/21/05
    Thomas Delapa
    Boulder Weekly

    Hilarious Woody Allen comedy of dubbing.

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    10/25/04
    Steve Crum
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    No review available.

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    08/22/03
    Carol Cling
    Las Vegas Review-Journal

    reminds you of a time when Allen didn't have to try so hard

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    07/30/03
    Chris Barsanti
    Filmcritic.com

    Clever, but not nearly as funny as it thinks it is.

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    06/15/03
    Ken Hanke
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    05/24/03
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    Tasteless but grandly funny experiment.

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    01/25/03
    Gerry Shamray
    Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

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    Chuck Rudolph
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    Linda Cook
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    Jeffrey Westhoff
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