Casino Royale (1967)

Nice effects though.

hyped garbage

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is the oldest parody movie I could find. Nowadays, we have horrendous spoof movies like "Disaster Movie" and it's sad to say that this might have set a precedent for those terrible movies. Granted, this is still "Airplane!" compared to those other movies. This is technically the worst James Bond movie. I said that I had already seen every James Bond movie ever made and this one was not an official one. It's also the longest spoof movie I've ever seen.That's a main flaw. It's mostly really rushed at the end and it isn't spread out well enough for all of these jokes. Interestingly enough, this may have set forth the idea that James Bond was a code name as it is here. A pity such a popular theory had to come from such a subpar movie. I will defend it a little on the grounds that it was the first of its kind and they didn't know what to work with. There's too many goofy things here like the cartoony cloud pills and the UFO that it comes off as stupid rather than funny. **

This film is a mess, one unrelated scene spliced together in the editing room with another. One of the reason it's so chaotic is the amount of directors (5 overall) The directors had no contact with each other, yet somehow managed to produce a passable film. The film's production had problem after problem, so much problems that I wonder how it was finished.--PLOT-- David Niven is brought out of retirement due to the assassination of British secret agents, you may wonder why I didn't put James Bond in David Niven's place. The problem with that is that they're MORE THAN ONE. I won't spoil anything else. --- The film is passable due to the good aspects. The special effect are brilliant and still look quite realistic today. The casting is good. There are sometimes alright jokes. The music is absolutely brilliant and there are plenty of good scenes in the film. --- Casino Royale could of been better. If it had one director and it wasn't nearly 2 and a half hours. It's still worth a look though due to the effect, music and the pure fun of certain scenes.

I didn't realize this was a spoof of James Bond until I started watching it. Even then, I got a fair way in before I realized, because it doesn't hit you over the head with the fact. I thought I'd missed out on a classic Bond film, and got rather excited. While it wasn't what I expected, I still enjoyed it.As with most spoofs there are boring lulls between jokes, and some things are exaggerated until they are no longer funny, assuming they were to begin with. The story is a bit hard to follow at times too. However, there are some well done and humorous moments, and it features an impressive cast.Overall I liked it. It's not something to go out of your way to see. Nor is it a good choice for a movie night. But it's well suited for an afternoon, when you're bored, and there is nothing on TV.

Casino Royale made in 1967 was initially a vehicle to pry Connery away from Bond when he was disheartened when playing the character for 5 films and before he eventually went on to make you only live twice a year later the offer was made by Charles Feldman he offered him approximately 1 million dollars to appear in his adaptation of Casino Royale which he had acquired the rights to make intending to make it a thriller but when Connery rejected his offer he made it into a spy spoof starring Ian Fleming's first and only choice for the role of 007 David Niven playing an older 007 coming out of retirement to save the world from spectre . And a radical change occurs after M - John Huston is killed Niven takes over mi6 and recruits various trainees to enter a training programme before becoming fully fledged secret agents ( men/women ) then all be called 007 to confuse the enemy its such a preposterous unnecessary edition to the Bond cannon with to many situations characters and needless dialogue Niven gives the only credible performance in the entire film suave and graceful as usual but the rest of the cast and characters in this film apart from le Chiiffe and Spectre are totally unnecessary to the story and should have primarily focused on David Nivens bond in short avoid unless your a die hard Bond fan watch for David Niven exclude the rest of the cast from you memory as the reek of unoriginality and creditableness .