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      Babo 73

      1964 57m Comedy List
      Reviews 37% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score President Sandy Studsbury (Taylor Mead) conducts top-secret affairs on a deserted beach. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member The incomparable Taylor Mead stars as the newly elected President Sandy Studsbury in Robert Downey, Sr's debut feature "Babo 73". It's largely a stream of consciousness satire with Mead divided between the advice of his left wing and right wing advisers. Downey's sensibility hits th screen fully formed here. In a sense, nothing much happens, but so many ideas are on display that you hardly need a plot to get in the way. Mead is particularly wonderful in what has to be the weirdest portrayal of a President on screen with his fey, slurred off-hand delivery of all of his dialogue. This film has the single greatest joke about racism I've ever heard in a film, partly due to the punch line totally blind siding you after a very very long set up. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review eric b A tedious film with little meat on its bones beyond the initial concept of casting Andy Warhol crony Taylor Mead as an impossibly whiny, listless President of the "United Status." Ample talk about negotiations with Albania and the Red Siamese goes nowhere, and a non-existent set budget results in most dialogue taking place outdoors in parks. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The first Downey Sr. film I viewed was the political satire Babo 73. The film had a view good moments early on, such as the confession scene, but it quickly got boring and even predictable. I understood the satire of it, in fact I feel like the satire in this one was to simple. You don't even have to think about it, it's all laid out for you. As a directorial debut it's certainly not a great one, but it has a few sparks of energy. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member President Sandy Studsbury of the United Status has to deal with an invasion by the Red Siamese and with his own crazy cabinet led by Chester Kitty-Litter. Occasionally clever but mainly goofy underground satire is not up to snuff; it's like ordering DUCK SOUP and getting watery broth, or going to see DR. STRANGELOVE only to learn he flunked out of med school. Writer/director Robert Downey Sr. would get better after this amateurish first attempt. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member My first foray into Robert Downey, Sr. Hilarious? I think so. Slapstick? For sure. I had a hard time keeping up, but i loved the whole hour. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The infantile comedy gets over mainly because of the stroke of genius casting of Andy Warhol underground star Taylor Mead as the spastic president of the United Status. Rated: B- Oct 30, 2012 Full Review Christopher Long Movie Metropolis Mead only appears intermittently coherent which makes him a perfect match for the story Rated: 7/10 Aug 21, 2012 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis President Sandy Studsbury (Taylor Mead) conducts top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
      Director
      Robert Downey Sr.
      Screenwriter
      Robert Downey Sr.
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      57m