Yikes! NOT one of Allen's finer moments - We did funnier improve skit comedy as kids in grade school.
Allen was fortunate to have continual opportunities to hone his movie making skills after this turkey. This is really rough to watch.
I mean really...how can any critic give this a positive review?
I admire Allen, love many of his movies, but Bananas was hard to like when I was 13. Seeing it again was painful.
Sorry, but my "3" rating is generous.
Not worth detailing all the reasons, but it has a basic film school effort feel to it - "promising" if it was done by a young film student, but a Fail on a professional level - my own Seventh Seal Bergman/Hitchcock mashup parody from film school is frankly better even with its ultra low production value (took 3rd place in a regional film festival) - that would be an embarrassment now, but still better than this mess, which is mostly a bunch of gags loosely patched together.
I'm going to watch Sleeper next to reinstate the Allen comic genius mojo.
Allen was fortunate to have continual opportunities to hone his movie making skills after this turkey. This is really rough to watch.
I mean really...how can any critic give this a positive review?
I admire Allen, love many of his movies, but Bananas was hard to like when I was 13. Seeing it again was painful.
Sorry, but my "3" rating is generous.
Not worth detailing all the reasons, but it has a basic film school effort feel to it - "promising" if it was done by a young film student, but a Fail on a professional level - my own Seventh Seal Bergman/Hitchcock mashup parody from film school is frankly better even with its ultra low production value (took 3rd place in a regional film festival) - that would be an embarrassment now, but still better than this mess, which is mostly a bunch of gags loosely patched together.
I'm going to watch Sleeper next to reinstate the Allen comic genius mojo.