Review of Octopussy (1983) by Nbfc — 09 Jan 2018

Coming out the same year as the non-Eon produced Never Say Never Again, this sixth entry to star the always reliably entertaining Roger Moore is a movie I can’t help but enjoy. It is a prime example of the silly action-comedy tone that dominated most of Moore’s tenure as 007.

There tends to be two camps when it comes to the James Bond fandom, those who prefer their Bond to be serious and down-to-earth like the Daniel Craig entries or those who like their Bond fantastical and light-hearted like with Moore and the later Connery affairs.

I am personally partial to both approaches and **** takes the campy tone up to 11. This is a movie where James Bond disguises himself as a clown, swings on vines while yelling like Tarzan and there is even a moment of meta-comedy when a snake charmer plays the Bond theme on a flute. It is all very much a tongue-in-cheek action-comedy with Moore’s comic delivery always on-point and the action sequences electrifying (Ex. The train scene).