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Plot: In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
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MCT:January 12, 2008woody allen is such a perv!!! he marries one of his adopted kids and has kids with her?! thats parent-child affection taken to a whole new level-incest!! how come he didnt make it onto the jerry springer show? but just for that fact, i have no intention of ever seeing any of his movies!!
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MCT:December 31, 2007Asian Bond-type filmed edited and dubbed into a non-sensical plot about retrieving a stolen recipe for egg salad. It's differnet, but that's the best thing you can say about it.
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MCT:November 27, 2007This movie is PG?!? Awesome. I love the fact that the R-Rating wasn't around for a good long time. Now, if you haven't been reading my reviews in the past, you should know that I love Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Film Crew, and Woody Allen. How the hell have I not seen this movie before?
What's Up, Tiger Lily? is a redubbed and recut version of a Japanese Movie entitled "Japanese Secret Police: Key of Keys, only with all the dialogue thrown out the window and the story involving the quest for the perfect egg salad recipe. It really is genius. However, I feel I have to mention the negatives of this movie before I really go into how much I liked it. Like most commentary films (best I can describe it), there really are ups and downs in the film. Frankly, it is almost impossible to slag off an entire film and do it well. But the parts that are funny are golden.
Allen clearly has his reputation by this point in his career and exploits the hell out of it. He constantly shows up in the film as himself, explaining away his cuts as if he was a serious director. For anyone else, I don't think this would work (I'm sorry, Mike and Joel...the skits just aren't funny.) but Allen pulls it off with grace and sophistication.
This really is one of Woody Allen's greats. I watched this movie with non-Woody fans and they really got a kick out of this movie. So pretty much, there's no excuse not to rent it. -
MCT:November 11, 2007Terrific, fantastic, increadibly funny, you have to see it! Woody Allen bought a very low budget Japanese spy movie and dubbed it with dialouge about the dissaperance of the world's greatest egg salad recipe. I mean seriously, every time I see this I laugh so hard that I get stomach cramps. Money back guarantee!
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MCT:August 22, 2007
Me and my sister used to do this all the time, turn the sound down on a shit film and make up our own dialogue...we were shocked when we discovered Woody had done exactly that about 20 years before us
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MCT:August 17, 2007
Fun idea. Woody Allen takes an obscure Japanese b-movie and re-dubs it with totally different dialogue. A few funny moments, but it was overall a bit too silly for my taste.
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MCT:July 11, 2007was Woody Allen the first person to take a foreign film and redub it with comedy dialogue? if not, then at the very least it was hardly an overused technique when this joyfully ridiculous film was made in '66. it's an odd and atypical first film but still has a few laugh-out-loud moments (a Japanese officer's furious exclamation that "i can't read this... it's... TOO SMALL!" doesn't read so funny, but trust me it is).
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MCT:June 18, 2007
This is perhaps the funniest Woody Allen movie ever! Take an old Japanese action flick and re-dub the soundtrack with some of the wittiest dialog ever, and you will have this film. Highly recommended!
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MCT:May 12, 2007
no mames, tiene suis momentos, peor no esta como me la imaginaba, es mas pendeja, peor no pendeja divertida como kungpow, es mas bien pendeja pendeja, el final es una verga, y el inicio tmabien, si siguen leytendo desde ahorita es su problema, proque diere algo que me parecio verga pura,
esta woody allen con un wey que lo entrevistaba durante la proyeccion de la pelicula, y como la pelicula carece de sentido le dice el wey, ahm no es facil de seguir la historia nos puede hacer un resumen??, allen se acomoda, se pone a pensar y dice claramente, no.
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MCT:May 3, 2007
Complete idiocy. Follow the antics of the protagonist of this bad and badly (and hilariously) dubbed Japanese movie as he tries to break the code for secret chicken salad...reminiscent of the old "Fractured Flickers" TV show in the '60s where actors made up a bunch of silly dialogue for silent movies. A hoot!
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MCT:April 13, 2007Interesting concept, take a foreign film and do a voice over. Many people have probably done this at home and unfortunatley I think that's were it's best to stay.
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MCT:April 11, 2007
Woody Allen's first brush with cinema, overdubbing a Japanese spy film with his own dialogue, is hit and miss, but when it works, it's pretty damn funny.
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MCT:January 21, 2007
A movie with none of woody allen's pretentious whining? Can it be true? Why yes it can! Check this little gem out, it's hilarious!
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MCT:December 9, 2006
I loved this movie. It's one of the funniest just best movies I have watched. If you like Woody Allen and even if you don't you should watch this movie.
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MCT:November 28, 2006
I thought it was funny the first time I saw it, but it really doesn't stand up to repeat viewing. Some very funny lines though..."Mom could always take a punch!"
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MCT:August 12, 2006
Hilarious movie... totally great movie... Allen takes the audio from some Japanese spy movies and redubs all the audio either himself or with help from friends and it's hilarious...
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MCT:July 20, 2006
It just goes to show how funny a movie can be when it is re-dubbed... if only the could re-dub titanic and make it a comedy... now theres an idea...
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MCT:July 6, 2006Zip.ca rental of What's Up Tiger Lily? Slowly seeing any and all Woody Allen.
Well, I must say it's probably one of the better shot Allen films I've seen (hahaha). Other then that I really dont have much to say. It was a nowhere near as funny version of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. It just wasn't interesting at all.
The Opinion: Dull.
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