What's Up, Tiger Lily?

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ed m Great idea, but it doesn't work. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/20/23 Full Review DanTheMan 2 What's Up, Tiger Lily? is one of those movies that while novel at the time has aged so poorly there's very little value in even looking at it nowadays. Woody Allen's "directorial debut", which is a stretch considering all he did was direct the dubbing and shoot a couple of new scenes of himself, the rest of this film is just re-edited clips from A Keg of Powder and Key of Keys dubbed over for "comedic" effect. It's akin to a fan dub but the jokes are in poor taste or just outright unfunny, a string of sight gags, puns, general farce and jokes based on Asian stereotypes. The problem is this is what the film sets out to do… so is bad that I mark it down for doing exactly what it set out to do? Honestly, I don't really care, it's unremarkable and just furthers the general stereotyping of Asian movies in general, giving them a bad name everywhere because of "movies" like this. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/12/23 Full Review Audience Member First 1/2 is 5 stars, 2nd maybe 3. Blobbo give average. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review william d Not all the jokes land, but the ones that do are pretty funny. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review robert r And the award for strangest directorial debut goes to. . . "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" makes for an undoubtedly fascinating watch at times. "Fascinating" in that it's fascinating something like this ever came to be in the first place. A pre-existing, Japanese spy film that's been re-dubbed and worked over by Woody Allen's overtly crass and occasionally racist hands? Yikes. Some of the more innocuous jokes may land every ten minutes or so, but, God almighty, is this thing an incredibly obnoxious watch on the whole. I get that this kind of filmmaking may have been viewed as some kind of groundbreaking novelty for the times, but anyone with any sort of "MST3K-esque" commentary experience would be able to concoct a funnier viewing of the parodied film at home; and do it amongst the company of friends/family, to boot. Definitely one of the writer/director's lamer efforts, for sure. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member If you've watched Woody Allen before, you would know that this has no much rooms for him to display. The kind-of-funny dialogues with not matched frames; the weak fight which I'd rather watch gunplay in Westerns or Chinese kungfu; the unchangeable stories which not make good use of their purpose "egg salad". The movie got creative concept but that's not enough for a 80-minute movie. The best part might be "Death is my bread and danger is my butter" said by Allen, and the pretty button-shape hide webcams. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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