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CBn Reviews 'Casino Royale' (1967)
Forum members review the 'spoof' James Bond film of 1967

There are some amusing bits and a interesting score but it wears out its welcome due to its extreme (for a goofy comedy) length. Most scene transitions are extremely abrupt (M's toupee is blown off...and now he's dead! What the heck?) especially scenes involving Peter Sellers. Many scenes go on forever such as the ghastly Scottish scene. I agree with many others that its not really funny. Interminably long scenes without many laughs are a deathblow for a goofy comedy. It could have been a good comedy if Feldman and Sellers hadn't lost their minds. But they did so we got stuck with an extremely overlong, often unfunny mess. A Guilty pleasure at best.

This is a really difficult movie to rate. In some aspects, I want to rate it a 1. In other aspects I want to rate it a 10. In other aspects, I watn to rate it everyting in between.

BTW, the 10 is for the music score.

I gave it a five. In retrospect, that is probably too high.

Ah well.

It's a curate's egg. More bad than good, but with some undeniably funny moments. And at least it's more enjoyable than Never Say Never Again.

some good moments, a real no brainer to watch. has some funny moments but nothing great, still for some reason i love the theme music. still the worst bond film simply because it is absolutly crazy

True, out of all 23, this is easily the bottom for me.

I give it 1, although I admit that I've seen only bits and pieces here and there on TV (and pan-and-scan, natch). A cleaned-up widescreen print seen in the cinema might be fun (perhaps some cinemas - London's Prince Charles, for instance - may in the future show the '67 CR as a double bill with Craig's debut), and might cause me to raise my rating to a more generous 2 or 3, but, really, I think I've seen enough to know that this most definitely ain't my cup of tea. A very poor film.

The problem with this comedy is that there just aren't that many laughs. It's surreal, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but goes beyond Monty Python-surreal into LSD mixed with Cocain surreal. It's just too silly.

I gave it five though, as I have actually watched it a few times.

Ya know what, i gave it a 6 because i really dig this film as an insane parody. It's got Woody Allen and Peter Sellers, two guys who i'd watch in a movie even if it consisted of the two of them watching paint dry while telling inane anecdotes about the accounting practices of ICI.
The theme tune is great - Herb Alpert's Tijuana Taxi always makes me smile.
Before i read the novel this movie made me want to know what was actually in the real story. It has a nostalgia for me this flick, so i think it deserves its 6 out of 10. For me anyway.

At least its better than The World Is Not Enough and Tomorrow Never Dies.

I'll give ya THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, but I'd take TOMORROW NEVER DIES over this one anyday, if only because it features Brosnan in his most charismatic and cool performance and has some fairly decent moments.

Okay, I'll give you that.