Review of Danger: Diabolik (1968) by Caesar M — 27 Aug 2012

This comic book adaptation is not for everyone, it's campy, goofy, corny, and over the top. Than again, it's campy, goofy, corny, and over the top enough to be enjoyable.

Danger:Diabolik is about super-thief Diabolik who runs around stealing jewels, gold, murdering innocent people, and being a nuisance to the government of a generic European country. First off, the plot has allot of padding and shows us things we really don't want to see. I doubt me seeing Diabolik not put the money he in stole in a safe, driving through his base which takes forever, and having sex with Eve, Diabolik (very hot) girlfriend is really important. When it does have a story to tell it's decent, though somwhat rediculous like the hilariously bad dubbing. One rediculous moment involve Diabolik shooting a villian 11 times with diamonds in his machine gun, is that even possible? Or a moment where Diabolik catapults a dummy with his clothes into the sea to avoid being captured, where he got the dummy is a mysterey. The only downside to the story is that the ending leaves something to be desired, though it's filled with enough explosions and humor to make the viewing experience worth it. The green screen effects are pretty dated here to the point where part of a man leg disappears in mid-air but it adds some charm to it and some good laughs. The same goes with the campy music which doesn't exactly go with the movie all the time, but it's fun to listen to and is simply there to entertain. As for the for the cast, everybody besides our main man gets plenty of speaking lines. It's odd that our main character gets little to no speaking lines, heck even his girlfriend has more lines than him and she barely speaks. Now to be honest she's not here because she can act, she's only here to be eye candy which is fine by me since they didn't sterotype blondes and she easy one eyes.

Danger Diabolik might be to rediclous and cheesy for some viewers to enjoy, but I had fun with it. While not for everyone, if you're looking for a campy comic adaptation aside of Marvels and DC go ahead and try Danger Diabolik.