Product 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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28004 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-07-15
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 80 minutes

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

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!

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? And the best thing about her is: she can really take a PUNCH!"

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 in 1965), shuffling the sequence of events in the plot, and using the voices of (among other actors) Louise Lasser (Allen's first wife and star in his later work, BANANAS, as well as TV's MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN), Frank Buxton and Len Maxwell. The sight gags come fast and furious. There is a running joke about egg salad that I still don't understand (and this has been a few years since I first watched the film!), cobras and chickens falling in love, and other incredibly odd shenanigans, and yet it's still so odd it's brilliant (somehow). I can't honestly say it's something I would watch over and over again. Once is probably enough. Yet, I really think it's interesting to see the evolution of Woody Allen as a filmmaker, and what better way to do that, than by watching his earliest work (where he didn't even appear directly--except to introduce the piece before it even begins). Check this out just so you can tell your friends that you saw it!!