Thursday, October 20, 2011

Total Recall: Smashing Spy Spoofs

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Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, initially found its way to the big screen as a direct satire of the character in 1967, comprised of a series of sight gags, campy innuendo, and psychedelic mind trips that culminates in one big, chaotic orgy of lunacy. Cherry picking elements from the book, the film stars David Niven as the "original" 007, now retired, who's asked to discover why international agents are turning up dead or missing. Unfortunately, the film was fraught with all kinds of problems off screen -- Peter Sellers quit midway through the production due to beef with Orson Welles, and the movie burned through several directors and rewrites -- and it shows in the final product. Nevertheless, a few critics defended the film, like the Northwest Herald's Jeffrey Westhoff, who called it "so bizarre, so wrongheaded, and so overblown that it's actually enjoyable."

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1923782/news/1923782/

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