06-04-2022, 05:20 PM
This was the definition of quirky. It began as a standard 60s cat & mouse detective & thief yarn, then shifted gears into a jazzy musical, then got very 60s Batman, then over to 60s Hammer film horror, all the while spouting goofy romantic notions of love and the bourgeois, plus real versus fake and true love in that ovidian romantic sense, with some lines bordering on poetry or lucky ambiguous bad translations. I'm not sure what it all meant by the end, but it was definitely entertaining as to where it might go next.
I particularly enjoyed the bodyguard song and dance with the kendo/karate master, the judo master, and the boxer. I also liked the four henchmen that got emeralds with their fancy dance steps. The midget henchman was so cliche, but perhaps that was a thing in the 60s. I also liked all the disguises. I'm not sure all the switcheroo tactics made sense in the end, but I just rolled with it.
This is not a film that I ever would've discovered on my own. Kudos to cf for digging it out.
I particularly enjoyed the bodyguard song and dance with the kendo/karate master, the judo master, and the boxer. I also liked the four henchmen that got emeralds with their fancy dance steps. The midget henchman was so cliche, but perhaps that was a thing in the 60s. I also liked all the disguises. I'm not sure all the switcheroo tactics made sense in the end, but I just rolled with it.
This is not a film that I ever would've discovered on my own. Kudos to cf for digging it out.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse