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What's Up, Tiger Lily?

Woody Allen (Actor, Director), The Lovin' Spoonful (Actor), Senkichi Taniguchi (Director) Rated:

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An evil mastermind with an addiction to egg salad! Sadistic, torture-hungry double crossers! Gorgeous girls hungry for lovin'! A weird marriage between a cobra and a chicken! Only one man is daring, clever and sexy enough to take on this kind of mission: superspy Phil Moscowitz! Woody Allen spoofs the spy thriller in one of his funniest films, a nonstop frenzy of skewed wit, hilarious parody and sidesplitting wackiness. With dialogue rewritten and redubbed for a Japanese James Bond-style movie, What's Up, Tiger Lily? turns the sex-and-danger world of filmdom's spy game upside down!

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Actors: Woody Allen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Frank Buxton, Len Maxwell, Louise Lasser
Directors: Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi
Writers: Frank Buxton, Len Maxwell, Louise Lasser, Julie Bennett, Bryna Wilson
Format: Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
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Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Release Date: June 16, 2009
Run Time: 80 minutes
Average Customer Review: 93 customer reviews
ASIN: B001URA5VG
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,142 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #16491 in Movies & TV > DVD > Mystery & Thrillers
- #18568 in Movies & TV > DVD > Action & Adventure
- #21162 in Movies & TV > DVD > Comedy

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A Classic Indeed.

ByMegaDaveon September 19, 2017

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Hey sports fans. Simply a classic indeed. This film had been out for a while when I'd first seen it in my teens. Some 20+ years later, I still laugh every time I watch it. You may also enjoy the soundtrack (CD) to this film, by The Lovin' Spoonful. Money well spent. Have a great day.

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One Of My Favorite's Of Woody Allen's Early Works.

ByRuben Iglesiason May 1, 2017

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A largely unknown product of Woody Allen's fertile comedic mind that's worth getting.

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I Love this movie because it reminds me of James bond and Japanese movies. I found it profoundly amusing

ByDJ46on September 20, 2016

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WHAT'S UP TIGER LILY?

I Love this movie because it reminds me of James bond and Japanese movies. I found it profoundly amusing. I've been watching it several times since I purchased this DVD, and each time I watch it, I found something new that I missed before.This movie reminds me of some of the Japanese films back in the 1970's. I would recommend this to anyone that loves woody Allen. Great movie.

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An enduring gem. Very atypical Allen, but worth it anyway

ByB. MaroldHALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERon April 30, 2005

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`What's Up Tiger Lily' is a puzzle in Woody Allen's body of work. On the one hand, it is such a creampuff I expect it's primary value is as material for the question on daytime `Who Wants to be a Millionaire':

Which 1960's folk-rock band was featured as performers on Woody Allen's `What's Up Tiger Lily'?:

A. The Byrds

B. Buffalo Springfield

C. The Lovin Spoonful

D. The Mamas and the Papas

The answer, Meredith, is C. Final Answer.

An even more difficult question is who, exactly directed the movie, who wrote it, and who filmed it. Woody Allen's name is above the title on the front, yet he gets no credit as writer, although it is pretty obvious that he was the primary writer of the English dialogue you see on the screen. He also makes brief appearances in mock interviews where he is credited with the idea of the movie and with the dialogue.

There is virtually nothing in common in this film, released in 1966, with Allen's first full time actor / writer / director work, `Take the Money and Run', released in 1969 and produced by the usual Rollins and Joffre team. American International, the B-movie studio of Saul Arkoff whose stock in trade was cheap second-rate movies and imports, released this movie, of all things.

I must say that I rarely agree with blurbs on the front of DVD jackets, but I really think there is something to the statement `The film that began America's laugh affair with Woody Allen. Funny then, funnier now!'. Remarkably, aside from the very `60's act by the Lovin Spoonful, there is virtually nothing in the movie that dates it. Some of the parodies apply as effectively to the latest `Lethal Weapon' opus and, even more amazingly, to `Kill Bill' as it does to the cheap spy / martial arts Japanese movies of the 1960's.

The stated premise of the movie is that the American producers (Allen is credited as an Associate Producer) took the film of a cheap Japanese flick and put their own dialogue into the Japanese characters' mouths. The transplant works so well, I almost find it hard to believe this is what they really did. While I recognize some of the names of the dubbing actors (Louise Lasser, for example), I recognize nothing on the screen, and, no credit is given for the Japanese actors, writer, director, cinematographer, or gaffer. I guess this was all part of the deal with the Japanese producer that they got the raw film with no credits given.

I also happen to agree with the blurb from Leonard Maltin who says this is `...One long, very funny joke'. In a sense, for all the parodies done by both Allen and Mel Brooks, this is probably the one from Allen that is most similar to Mel Brooks' style, where the whole premise becomes part of the joke.

I must warn those to whom this is important that all the bad things you see about the filming of movies in the 1950's and 1960's is true of this flick. There is none of the great Gordon Willis cinematography, let alone any of Allen's high talent guest lensmen such as Sven Nykvist or Carlo De Palma.

Allen fans should not pass this up as they may with `Casino Royale' and `What's New Pussycat', where Allen is simply paying the rent by acting in these high cast comedies.

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This version has the original dialogue!

ByAmazon Customeron July 30, 2016

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One of the more prominent reviews for this complains that the dialogue has been edited. This comment doesn't apply to this particular DVD release, which actually has both the original audio track and the edited "for TV" audio track available. If you buy this DVD you will get the full, original movie.

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A very novel Idea

ByRandy KeehnVINE VOICEon January 27, 2004

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Woody Allen came up with, I believe, an original concept when he put together "What's up Tiger Lily?" back in 1966. He took a Japanese "B" movie and eliminated the soundtrack. This enabled him to dub in a completely new script which played on a lot of the scenes while creating an inane plot. I saw it at the movie theater when it came out and I thought it was hillarious. (As a young teenager, I also retained a somewhat vivid memory of the ending). I was watching some more recent works of Woody Allen recently and the movie came back to mind. I looked it up and ordered it through Amazon.com and thoroughly enjoyed it. I wasn't tempted to rate it a "5" because there were some stretches between laughs. However, in all fairness, Allen did have to put together some sort of a plot and follow the film he was spoofing. If it was all gags, it wouldn't have worked as well as it did. There were times I really cracked up laughing and I know I'll laugh again the next time I watch it. Maybe this concept has been copied since "What's up Tiger Lily?" but I guess once was enough for Woody Allen. This movie is one of the better ones from his early years as a writer/director. I certainly am glad I picked up again after all these years. I don't ever recall seeing it available on TV.