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What's Up Tiger Lily [1966]
 
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What's Up Tiger Lily [1966]
DVD ~ Tatsuya Mihashi
2.3 out of 5 stars 7 customer reviews (7 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Actors: Tatsuya Mihashi, Akiko Wakabayashi
  • Directors: Woody Allen
  • Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, Japanese
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Prism Leisure
  • DVD Release Date: 2 Feb 2004
  • Run Time: 80 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)
  • DVD Features:
    • Main Language: English
    • Available Audio Tracks: Mono
    • Dubbed Language(s): English
    • Disc Format: DVD 5
    • Scene Access
  • ASIN: B000056N5U
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 65,630 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
What better way for writer-star Woody Allen to cash in on the success of What's New Pussycat? than to write a quickie exploitation comedy that makes fun of quickie exploitation films? In What's Up Tiger Lily? his actors dub new dialogue onto a ridiculous Japanese spy extravaganza. Allen's exquisite sense of the absurd is in fine form as espionage professionals pursue a top-secret recipe for egg salad. At one point during the planning of a break-in, a spy unfolds a map of their quarry's residence, explaining that the man "lives here". "He lives on that small piece of paper?" questions one of the henchmen. It's that silly. But it's often uproarious. Louise Lasser, Allen's former wife is among the voice actors. --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
DVD 5
Region 0
Mono
Scene Access


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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Woody Allen's admitted embarrasment, 26 Feb 2001
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Woody Allen hated the result of this his first film project. In fact, the best thing you can say about »What's Up, Tiger Lily?« is that it is an interesting experiment: putting newly-written english words to an already recorded awful Japanese action film. The other good thing are the approx. two minutes in which Woody Allens appears, and the gorgeous 1960's-style Japanese girls.

There's no story; a few very funny (or rather: far out) laughs, mostly because of the extremely poor, nearly parodistic quality of the Japanese film; and that's about it.

An experience rather than an enjoyable quality film.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The world can always use a great recipe for egg salad, 1 Aug 2004
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Once upon a time there was a 1964 Japanese spy movie called "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi" ("International Secret Police: Key of Keys." Then Woody Allen decided that if the Japanese could dub their monster movies into English, he could dub "Kagi no kagi" into English. The key difference, of course, is that Woody is trying to be funny on purpose. Whatever Interpol Agent Tatsuya Mihashi was up to in the original, he is now trying to track down a secret egg salad recipe. As somebody who actually remembers seeing this film in a movie theater, I still recall my roommate and I insulting each other and total strangers for several weeks with comments about "Roman dogs" and "Spartan pigs." I cannot really imagine committing this entire film to memory, but whether you are a fan of Woody Allen, badly dubbed Japanese movies, or James Bond spy movies, then you owe it to yourself to see this film once in your life. The most amazing thing is that this has not been done more often; after all, what bad movie could you not improve by totally redoing the dialogue and how much fun could you have doing something like this to a classic film like "Casablanca"? The Japanese original was actually followed by a 1967 sequel "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Zettai zetsumi" ("International Secret Police: Driven to the Wall") starring Nick Adams a year before his death from a drug overdose. That film had something to do with killer foam (no, I am not making that up).
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Hit and miss - but when it hits, it HITS!, 23 Jan 2002
Not really a movie, but an entertaining curio. The gags can be embarassingly naive, but when they work, they will have you giggling helplessly at the absurdity of it. Loses steam a little towards the end, but this is the perfect drunken bloke film.
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1.0 out of 5 stars For the completist only.
As a huge Woody Allen fan i can confirm that this is his worst effort by a long shot, the only funny sequence in the entire film occuring during the closing credits when Woody... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. P. S. Bond

2.0 out of 5 stars Saxon dog !
Well, I have to say this seems more of an experiment than a film and Woody Allen has admitted himself that this isn't exactly his proudest moment.

Fair enough. Read more

Published on 19 Oct 2001 by Mr. D. Woods

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible guff
This is one DVD I wish I'd never bought and will certainly never watch again. A huge Woody Allen fan, I ordered this given I had never seen it and could not find it on video or to... Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars Woody Allen's admitted embarrasment
Woody Allen hated the result of this his first film project. In fact, the best thing you can say about »What's Up, Tiger Lily? Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2001

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