What a beautiful movie!

Boring, long, and too preachy.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I've been spending the last 20 years in vain trying to sit through all of Casino Royale and give it a fighting chance. Try as I might, I just can't, and this is coming from someone who sat through Manos: Hands of Fate and Plan 9 from Outer Space.Before I rip into it, let me say what's good about it. The cinematography, costume and sets are drop dead gorgeous and perfectly encapsulates the height of "swinging sixties" fashion and the look of movie musicals before cinematography adopted the ugly, dark, muddy look of the 1970s. The soundtrack, by Bacharach, is exemplary.Okay, with that out of the way, this is by far the worst of the so- called "zany" style of comedy that was so popular at the time. It's abysmal, even worse than What's New, Pussycat, even worse than Skidoo. The thing about those last two films is that even though they were bad, they were at least coherent and had some watchable scenes. Casino Royale is completely random from start to finish and so incoherent as to be unwatchable. It was like the movie was shot right after the writers scribbled notes on toilet paper during one of their brainstorming sessions. I'll give you an example of how incoherent it is. In the very first scene, James Bond is talking to M on the front lawn of his mansion when suddenly, the bad guys blow it up. Then M's toupee flies off in a stupid gag, showing that he's bald. But then in the next scene, Bond is going to M's widow to give her his toupee. So M's toupee hadn't just blown off in that first scene. He had also been killed. How? When? The movie never says. It jumps from that scene to the very next one when Bond is comforting M's widow. The entire film plays like this, as if key scenes connecting one scene to the next or explaining important plot points necessary to understanding the story were missing. What passes for comedy is just stupid, cheap, sick, sleazy or juvenile. The worst joke of the movie is when Bond gives M's grieving widow his toupee and she tells one of her daughters to put it with one of the other "hair-looms" (get it? huh? huh? hair-looms! because it sounds like...ah, never mind...). There is also a lot of stupid mugging for the camera, stupid accents, stupid everything.Another thing that's terrible about this movie is the sleaziness. I know that "hot babes" and spy films went hand in hand in the 1960s. However, the sexism was so extreme in this movie it made Matt Helm movies look enlightened by comparison. Case in point: James Bond is invited to take a bubble bath with one of M's hot daughters. So here you have this much older Niven taking a bath with this nubile young woman, who keeps touching him all over and acts like she's two seconds away from grabbing his junk. But that's not the worst part. The worst part is that she asked him to join her because he reminded her of her father, M, and she and her father would take bubble baths like this together all the time. It was like the writers were so hell-bent on having this sleazy scene that they didn't care that they were basically suggesting that there was an incestuous relationship between M and his daughter. A similar thing happens later when Bond meets Mata Hari's daughter and looks mesmerized as she dances practically naked in front of him. As it turns out, she is his daughter, too!Oh, it gets worse. Practically every woman is scantily clad; the ones who aren't are making out with the male characters or trying to sleep with them. In one scene, James Bond tells Moneypenny's daughter, "Your mother did her best work at night." Shortly afterward, we see her in a see-through teddy going down a long row of men in her bedroom, kissing them one by one to find a recruit for some stupid "AFSD" project.I'd forgive all of this sleaze if the movie was at least passable. But it's so, so bad on every level imaginable except for the visuals and music that it's just difficult to sit through. You may hear people try to convince you that it's some kind of cult classic or misunderstood film or has its charms or whatever, but please...I've seen my share of cheesy, bad films. Manos: Hands of Fate, The Oscar, A Bucket of Blood...they were bad but were fun to watch and had coherent story lines. This movie was a dog's dinner.

This is a mindless movie spoof to the James Bond franchise, where a retired 007 is called back out to duty to stop SMERSH, an evil organization that is murdering the spy agents. The plan was to name all the agents as James Bond and trick SMERSH head Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but, what results are one bumbling chaotic turn of events after the other.The movie started slow with some unexciting attempt at humor (I guess you need to understand British comedy to appreciate this), but, the film gets a little more exciting once we get into the spy action. The movie then gets a little more entertaining with some constant slapstick comedy and laugh-out-loud moments.Plenty of obvious James Bond references and pretty Bond girls. Not funniest spoof I've seen, but it's mindless fun.Grade C+

Casino Royale 1967 starting David Niven & peter sellers is a spoof done on original James Bond films its got a cheesy bad story with hilarious dialogs & slap stick comedy moments plus all the characters are called James Bond here only to confuse villains like Le Chiffre & Smersh.now i wont spoil much here you will have to see the film yourself trust me guys this maybe not the the most funniest comedy ever done but extremely enjoyable.this film does not insult or mock the James Bond 007 character in anyway whatsoever the makers of this film just did some harmless fun with it that's all as a bond fan i am not offended & no one else should also.the cast is impressive here its got loads of hot women in here including the original bond girl Ursula Andress as vesper & Jacqueline Bisset who plays sexy Giovanna Goodthighs.the climax is laugh out loud riot with the whole casino gets ripped apart in a massive brawl no one gets spared the kill count is very high here.all of the bond films official or unofficial or spoofs like this film are way better then the rebooted Casino Royale 2006 version of Daniel Craig.the James Bond original film series used to be fantastic running for more then 40 years using the fun formula James Bond 007 is dead now it lasted from 1962 to 2002 then came the rebooted Casino Royale in 2006 the original Ian Flemming title adaptation but it was not a bond film it copied Jason Bourne flicks of Matt Damon & removing all the cool stuff & essence of a true bond fictional feel.i am not comparing this to Sean Connery till Pierce Brosnan era ones those are classics this film is not even in the same league i love them its just the Daniel Craig films that killed the 007 series & made it too realistic none of the recent films have any entertaining stuff left.surprisingly this being a spoof does a great job in holding viewers attention keeping the fun factor alive the action was good too so why the hate.Overall Casino Royale 1967 is a fun filled film nothing more it should not be taken seriously so ill take this any day over the soulless dull rebooted 2006 version my rating is 5/10.Recommended One Time Must Watch

There was little that was duller than a Sunday in late 80s rural southwest England. And being at a boarding school from Monday to Saturday meant Sunday was my only free day - bookended by church in the morning, the Top 40 on the radio in the evening, and not much to do in-between. The video shop was far away, and the Arnie and Sly films that my schoolmates raved about were most definitely banned by my mother. Bond films were permitted though, and until the next film would get an airing on TV, I took to the films and TV shows from the 1960s that trailed on 007's success. The mapcap psychedelia displayed in the Flint and Matt Helm films was a colourful zany antidote to the greyness of the current era, and to the perplexed reaction of my 80s fixated classmates, I developed a real hunger for that specific genre. As it turned out, these films tended to be a Sunday afternoon TV staple, and became the colourful highlight to my weekend.Casino Royale has been viewed negatively by critics - incoherent, chaotic, indulgent, and worst of all, an unfunny comedy. It was certainly more enjoyable as a 12 year old than it is now. Much of the humour seems to stem from the older generation trying to lampoon Bond and the swinging mid-60s counterculture, whilst not really understanding their targets and subsequently coming out somewhat fusty and out of touch. As for the plot, there really doesn't appear to be one - with 6 directors working on the film, the story has no flow or point, and the film is best considered instead as a series of sketches.So why my 6 out of 10? The film still looks as great as is did when I first watched it, and is a real monument to the bigger-is-better creativity of mid-60s. My personal favourites are the darkly psychedelic scenes in East Berlin, the hugely stylish villain's lair at the end of the film, and especially the seductive meeting of Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress, soundtracked by Dusty Springfield's 'The Look Of Love', which stands out simply as a piece of 60s cinematic genius. It is a scene that certainly left 12 year old me frustrated that I had not been born a few decades earlier; I'd have the chance to be a dapper playboy when I'd be older, but not in such fine style. As I grew older I moved on from worshipping the 1960s, and it became clear to me that for 99% of the population, that decade was probably even more drab than the 1980s. But there is a 12 year old me still there that feels joy at catching zany old swinging films from the 60s, and whilst Casino Royale certainly did not represent the youthful, modish zeitgeist of the mid-1960s, it is a stunning display of that era's 'sky's the limit' visual flair and creativity, and for 60s aficionados, it's absolutely worth sitting through the poor jokes.