Review of What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) by Compi24 — 04 Aug 2020

And the award for strangest directorial debut goes to. . . "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" makes for an undoubtedly fascinating watch at times. "Fascinating" in that it's fascinating something like this ever came to be in the first place.

A pre-existing, Japanese spy film that's been re-dubbed and worked over by Woody Allen's overtly crass and occasionally racist hands? Yikes. Some of the more innocuous jokes may land every ten minutes or so, but, God almighty, is this thing an incredibly obnoxious watch on the whole.

I get that this kind of filmmaking may have been viewed as some kind of groundbreaking novelty for the times, but anyone with any sort of "MST3K-esque" commentary experience would be able to concoct a funnier viewing of the parodied film at home; and do it amongst the company of friends/family, to boot.

Definitely one of the writer/director's lamer efforts, for sure.