Casino Royale | | Cast : | Peter Sellers | | Director : | | | Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | , 1967 | | DVD Released Date : | October 07, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | NR (Not Rated) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | Bond with a hand buzzer | Content
 | This is by no means the typical Bond, James Bond movie. Even though it is only in name the same as an Ian Fleming book, it is a zany comedy. It is an absolute riot to watch. The cast includes such notables as David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen. Fans of the off the wall comedies of the Sixties and Seventies should love it. In fact fans of the Austin Powers movies should enjoy it too. A nice mixture of comedy and action. Will the real James Bond please stand up? Good quality DVD but nothing special about extras. Well worth the price. A must have for any fan of the James Bond movies. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 04, 2005 | | Summary | Either You "Get It" or you DON'T | Content
| This is true 1960's brilliance. Yes, it is crazy, hard to follow, but wasn't the 60's? It is a Psychedelic Trip into an alternate 007 world. But the BIG deal about this film is this: Every good idea that Michael Myers ever had in his Austin Powers films was lifted out of this wonderful parade of sound and vision. Like 60's psychedelia, don't try to analyze it, just experience it. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 27, 2005 | | Summary | Best BOND Movie Ever! "You're joke-shop spies." | Content
| "The one & only, original, James Bond." I've been waiting since I first seen this on Cable for the DVD and it didn't disappoint. I was already a 5-star fan before, but what makes this dvd great are the special features. For one I learned that Peter Sellers got fired for not showing up for one take that included scores of extras. I think he said he was ill. Also, Orson Welles didn't like him & was loathed to work with him. Despite this, it's interesting that Sellers is credited as the star of the show. They also show the t.v. version which makes the feature seem as a work of high art.
Last, but not least, if one wonders about all those hot femmes as bit players, we're told that the studio was made in the London's Playboy Club. When one considers the bond catalog, its highs & lows, Casino Royale has to be near, if not the, top! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 25, 2005 | | Summary | Buy the sound track instead | Content
| It's a star-studded cast, but the story line lags badly in several places leaving the viewer wondering when the movie will finally end. The sound track is a classic one featuring many of the premier musical performers of the middle to late 1960's. I would buy the sound track rather than the film if I were you, which is also available through Amazon.com |
| Rating | | | Date | March 15, 2005 | | Summary | The whole does not equal the sum of its parts. | Content
| Recipe: Take one novel by Ian Fleming (the spy-thriller "Casino Royale"), two of filmdom's all-time finest actors (David Niven and Orson Welles), two legendary screen funnymen (Peter Sellers and Woody Allen), a musical score by one of the best contemporary composers (Burt Bacharach), a sexy love song sung by Dusty Springfield ("The Look of Love") and a rollicking title song performed exuberantly by one of the hottest acts in the business (Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass). Stir it all together and you should have an irresistable mix of comedy, intrigue and fun. Instead what you get is a jumbled mess that's awfully hard to swallow and doesn't taste very good.
This film, which runs well over two hours is hard to sit through. And I did it twice, convinced that I just didn't "get it" the first time. There are three funny scenes, two of which feature Woody Allen (the firing squad and the piano) as well as the opening scene where Peter Sellers is being addressed by a man who, as the camera pans back is revealed to be only inches from him. The combined time of these three scenes runs about 4 minutes. The rest of the film is often disjointed and usually boring. The ending is preposterous.
However, the bonus feature, a 1954 live television production of the same Ian Fleming novel (which actually concentrates on the story rather than unimpressive sight gags) is quite enjoyable. It stars Barry Nelson as 007 and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. Some may consider this DVD worth purchasing just for this bonus feature. |
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