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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381192322
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: American International Pictures (AIP)
Manufacturer: American International Pictures (AIP)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: American International Pictures (AIP)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 15, 2003
Running Time: 80 minutes
Sales Rank: 46176
Studio: American International Pictures (AIP)
Theatrical Release Date: November 02, 1966
Editorial Review:
Description:
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!
Amazon.com:
What better way for writer-star Woody Allen to cash in on the success of What's New Pussycat? than to write a quickie exploitation comedy that makes fun of quickie exploitation films? In some respects What's Up Tiger Lily? is a forerunner of Mystery Science Theater 3000, only instead of having actors sit back and make sarcastic comments about a cheapo movie, here they dub new dialog onto a ridiculous Japanese spy extravaganza. Allen's exquisite sense of the absurd is in fine form as espionage professionals pursue a top-secret recipe for egg salad. At one point during the planning of a break-in, a spy unfolds a map of their quarry's residence, explaining that the man 'lives here.' 'He lives on that small piece of paper?' questions one of the henchmen. It's that silly. But it's often uproarious. Louise Lasser, Allen's former wife (and co-star of Bananas and future star of TV's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) is among the voice actors. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Absolutely hilarious
There are so many great one-liners in this film that it would be hard to know where to begin. Oh, and don't miss an appearance by the Lovin' Spoonful and the guy with the really bad Peter Lorre imitation. The English dub job Woody Allen did on this movie is ten times funnier than most of the movies made nowadays. I loved it!
Rating: - Phil Moscowitz: "Saracen pig! Spartan dog! Take this! And this!"
Phil Moscowitz: "Roman cow! Russian snake! Spanish fly! Anglo-Saxon Hun!"
Suki Yaki: "Don't excite yourself. I never sleep with a man who owns a dress."
High Macha Of Rashpur: "They kill, they maim and they call information for numbers they could easily look up in the book."
Shepherd Wong: "I didn't order any fumigation! It's Wing Fool, you fat! I mean... it's Wing Fat, you fool!"
Wing Fat: "This is my mother. We're very close. Isn't she sweet? ... Read More
Rating: - an absurdist journey through B-movie mayhem.......
Only Woody Allen could take on B-movie Japanese spy films, mix them with off-the-wall, completely random dialogue and "one liners" from his American dubbists, and make it work. How? I honest-to-god don't know. I am surprised that I could watch this film completely sober and find it so damn funny. Yet, I did. You would think I would have had to be at least drunk! No, I actually understood most of Woody Allen's (early) vision of taking INTERNATIONAL SECRET POLICE: KEY OF KEYS (originally released ... Read More
Rating: - What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Broad, wacky, and extremely funny, "What's Up" is not for everyone, but if you're in need of some divine silliness, you cannot do better. Characteristic of Woody's earlier work, not every gag works, but there are so many of them that you come out way ahead, with cheeks and stomach muscles aching. A fully justified cult classic. My favorite moment: man peeking through keyhole.
Rating: - A great pun...
Whether you love this movie or hate it, it's the source of one of the very greatest puns in the English language:
Phil Moscowitz, to Shepherd Wong: "Well, you know, two Wongs don't make a white!"
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