Most of the film plays out like an extended, recent episode of 'Saturday Night Live'. The remainder of the movie easily explains why marijuana is recommended while viewing, with scenes making little sense and everyone being codenamed 'James Bond' by the end. I obviously couldn't have gotten this while watching the movie, but maybe I just wasn't paying attention). He refuses, and for some reason, his mansion is blown to smithereens and I believe M dies (since he's absent for the rest of the movie and I read somewhere that he does. M (or McTarry, who knows?), played by John Huston, calls on Bond to find out what's going on.

The real Sir James Bond (David Niven) is enjoying his retirement from the Secret Service when agents all over the world start dying. Surprisingly, the first ten minutes of exposition sets up a good situation. The problem with 'Casino Royale' isn't just that it's not in the least coherent, but that it's just not funny.

I can appreciate this-I enjoy the 'Austin Powers' movies because they're clever and sometimes hysterical. Since Feldman had little to no chance against the official series if he was to make a 'straight' adaptation of the 1953 book, he decided to produce a film that was the exact opposite: a spoof that parodied the exaggerated ridiculousness of the Bond films. Feldman and directed by no less than 5 people (that right there should be an indicator of the movie's quality). Myers' and his 'unnecessarily slow-moving dipping mechanisms' was this movie, produced by Charles K. When asked to name a spy spoof, most people usually think of Mike Myers' 'Austin Powers' series or 'Die Another Day' (sorry, turns out that's an 'official' entry in the Bond franchise). Unfortunately, that's not the only reason that it's largely been forgotten by mainstream audiences it probably has more to do with the fact that the film (a term I use very loosely because the plot is so episodic) is almost unwatchable. In fact, it's not part of Eon Productions 'official' series of films because it was made without any input from the producers at the time, Albert R. Before getting to the actual review of the film, a word of warning: 1967's 'Casino Royale' has nothing to do with the superior 2006 adaptation of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.

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