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It is a funny picture - not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits. Mar 18, 2010 | Full Review…
It is a funny picture - not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits.
Dave Kehr
Bananas 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. Sep 4, 2008 | Full Review…
Bananas 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.
Variety Staff
Wonderfully incoherent. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
Wonderfully incoherent.
Geoff Andrew
Allen's view of the world is fraught with everything except pathos, and it's a view I happen to find very funny. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
Allen's view of the world is fraught with everything except pathos, and it's a view I happen to find very funny.
Vincent Canby
Rapid-fire gags and some inspired one-liners qualify this as an early classic from Allen. May 10, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Rapid-fire gags and some inspired one-liners qualify this as an early classic from Allen.
David Parkinson
One of the early, funny films that a more mature Allen would dismiss later in his career, but nevertheless worth seeing again and again. May 10, 2013 | Full Review…
One of the early, funny films that a more mature Allen would dismiss later in his career, but nevertheless worth seeing again and again.
Film4 Staff
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. May 10, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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 Sep 5, 2009 | Full Review…
A study of the Cuban Revolution by way of Freedonia
Fernando F. Croce
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. Mar 30, 2007 | Rating: B | Full Review…
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.
Emanuel Levy
An attempt to capture the same zaniness the Marx Brothers had in Duck Soup. Jul 24, 2006 | Rating: B | Full Review…
An attempt to capture the same zaniness the Marx Brothers had in Duck Soup.
Dennis Schwartz
I still love Woody's masked parents. Oct 25, 2004 | Rating: 4/5
I still love Woody's masked parents.
Steve Crum
The material ranges from the wild and funny to several moments that are quite tasteless. The result is a very uneven comedy. Nov 20, 2003 | Full Review…
The material ranges from the wild and funny to several moments that are quite tasteless. The result is a very uneven comedy.
Tony Mastroianni
At one point, Woody Allen's character says to Louise Lasser's: "I fail to see the humor of this," which is exactly how I felt watching this terribly unfunny comedy that is more like random scenes and sketches sloppily put together - some of them so irritating they are nearly unbearable.
Super Reviewer
Before Woody Allen shifted into serious character dramedies with his revolutionary film "Annie Hall" he made satires and screwball comedies like this one. Over the edge hilarious and completely absurd, "Bananas" is one of the best political satires of the seventies. Playing off of the South American revolutions of the time, and their cyclical nature, Allen stars as a nebbish version of himself who tries to be politically relevant just to get laid. Screwball in its entirety, the film speaks on the complications of foreign policy while also being absolutely ridiculous and funny. If you love the likes of Mel Brooks or the Zucker Brothers, this is going to be a film you will fall for easily.
woody's second feature as a director is very clever, very funny. i laughed a lot, and as usual the dialogue was witty and entertaining. i felt that the film lost a lot of steam by the end, which says a lot considering the movie is already very short, but it is entertaining and really uses its ideas well, especially the opening assassination sequence.
A surrealist political comedy, Woody Allen's Bananas is entertaining and gonna make you laugh a lot. Fresh.
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