Having fought blaxploitation Voodoo gangsters in Live And Let Die, James Bond returned to more grounded and sensible territory by facing off against a man with three nipples, a flying car, a lazer tag fetish dungeon, sumo wrestler bodyguards and a midget whom he recklessly incentivises to betray him.
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| This is probably the only Bond flicc to be briefly and bizarrely inspired by the aesthetics of psychedelia and German Expressionism. |
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| The MI6 headquarters in a capsized ship gives us some underappreciated sets. |
Christopher Lee is always a great baddy and Knick Knack a great henchman, and their island lair is cool enough that the less sensical elements of the story may be overlooked entirely, if you're high enough or in a really good mood, making this average out to a fun time. Britt Ekland from The Wicker Man plays an especially inept Bond girl, and possibly the best stunt in the entire series takes place in which Bond jumps a river in a car, turning 360 degrees in the air and coming to land safely, to the accompaniment of a cartoon slide whistle. At least it wasn't the Benny Hill theme.
We are forced to question, however, why Bond attempts to free himself from a sumo goon by grabbing his asscheeks with both hands. Perhaps this is a martial art that baka gaijins like myself have yet to hear of.
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