As a satire of Bond films, CASINO is adequate as a satire of the then trendy-swinging-cool-hip-with-it-now youth films of the era, it succeeds beautifully.īasically you have a whole bunch of big name stars - past their prime, but still with box office credibility - ridiculing the very youth market that was squeezing them off the theatre marquees. As far as the actors are concerned, CASINO ROYALE seems to be little more than an excuse to have a multimillion dollar party at the studio's expense. It is obvious that no one gave the slightest thought to creating a genuine spy film and instead approached the film with a devil-may-care attitude. To this end, the untold number of writers and directors involved have opted to take the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to storytelling, mixed with a cut-and-paste style of editing. The film was intended to be the ultimate spy spoof, an attempt to out-Bond the James Bond movies and their innumerable imitators. What should stink of embarrassing desperation, instead proves to cheerfully insane, unpredictable and remarkably free of common sense. It is a wonderfully weird, bold, funny and incoherent mess of a movie.
CASINO ROYALE is one of the truly great bad movies of all time.
