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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
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Directed by Woody Allen.
Woody Allen took a Japanese spy movie called Kagi No Kagi, and replaced its original dialogue with an entirely new plot. In its revised state, this film follows the adventures of agent Phil Moskowitz who is on a deadly mission to secure the recipe for the "world's greatest egg salad." However, Moskowitz, with the help of the beautiful Suki and Terri Yaki, must prevent this unique recipe from falling into the hands of the evil Shepherd Wong. The group Lovin' Spoonful recorded the majority of the songs for this film. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
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porcupineporcupine Re: FilmCouch #21
by porcupine in FilmCouch
loved it.
"What's Up Tiger Lily is perfect! I can't believe I didn't think of that! I saw that movie at a friend's house late one night in high school. It was one of those surreal movie viewing experiences where the next day we were all like, "did we really just see that?" Man that is a funny movie. So this leads into a question I wanted to pose: what other movies that use someone else's footage did we miss? What's Up Tiger Lily is a really good example, we should have talked about it in the show. " [More]
Review by All Movie Guide
All Movie Guide
lost interest.
A single, sophisticated postmodern joke housing a whole lot of dumb, but often very funny gags, What's Up Tiger Lily marks Woody Allen's unlikely, but auspicious debut as a filmmaker. Redubbing a Japanese, James Bond rip-off -- and from the looks of things, not a particularly good one -- Allen fashions jokes around notions of genre, cultural assumptions, and less lofty subjects. The result is a surprisingly consistent film as funny in its own way as any of Allen's early comedies, although audiences weaned on the rapid-fire pace of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (its spawn in many respects), may find it slower than they prefer. ~ Keith Phipps, All Movie Guide
 



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