Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

strike-1995 Do you know what makes me laugh, hugo boss man of today adverts. This is not one of those.

classicsoncall You know, I thought the 'Execucizer' was a pretty good idea, a stationary, all purpose exercise machine for the busy executive who can't get away from his desk to work out. The picture played it for laughs but I thought it was pretty imaginative in concept. You wouldn't even have to miss a board meeting to get fit, what could be better?Well I can take Woody Allen up to a certain point, but when he gets too introspective it can become draining. When the scandals of his later life were revealed it took away any respect I might have had for the guy as a comic and an actor. Actually, the film was quite prophetic back in 1971, or was Woody even back then trying to tell the world he was a pervert waiting to come out. He gives himself away at the magazine stand when he tried to explain away his girlie mag - he was doing a study on perversion and child molesting. Someone should have taken him seriously.The film itself has it's funny moments, the best was the café order to feed the rebels of San Marcos. Every scene with Louise Lasser took me back to her mid-Seventies quirky hit, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman". That's another one I could only take so much of, but quite funny when it first started out.It's no secret that liberal film makers take their swipes at folks of religious conviction, that was on display here with the parallel parking crucifixion scene and Mellish (Allen) making the sign of the cross prior to dining with the rebel President of San Marcos. But he balanced things out a little when skewering New Age sensibilities with non-sensical talk to Nancy (Lasser) about her totality and 'other-ness'.Some cool cameos in the picture, using Howard Cosell to good effect as the play by play announcer for the San Marcos revolution and Roger Grimsby in a decidedly somber journalistic mode. You'll also catch Sly Stallone as an uncredited subway thug, a couple years before he joined up with The Lords of Flatbush.

moonspinner55 Woody Allen's second film as co-writer/director/star (not including "What's Up, Tiger Lily?") is a grab-bag of lunatic revue sketches, some of them hilarious. Spurned by his activist girlfriend, product-testing schnook in New York City quits his job and heads to a strife-ridden Latin American country to become a part of their revolution. Trenchant political satire must have looked outrageous in 1971, but time has made a few of these gags gruesomely topical and accurate (but no less funny). Targets include man-woman sexual matters (territory Allen was spot-on with right from the start), television commentary (sent up brilliantly), urban violence, Catholicism, psychiatry, assassinations, a Marx Brothers-styled courtroom, Miss America and...J. Edgar Hoover. The pacing seldom flags, but Allen's screenplay (penned with his "Take the Money and Run" partner, Mickey Rose) sags in the middle--perhaps he should have kept the action going in NYC a little longer. Terrific music score from Marvin Hamlisch, adept comedic work from the entire crazy cast (including deadpan Howard Cosell and Roger Grimsby as themselves). ** from ****

slightlymad22 I think your enjoyment of this movie depends if you are a fan of Woody Allen or not. Since I am not, I didn't enjoy it at all.Plot In A Paragraph: Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) works as a product tester. Fielding has the hots for Nancy (Louise Lasser), the girl collecting petition signatures door to door for the liberation of San Marcos, so he pretends to be interested in her cause. A relationship develops between them, but when she dumps him, he is devastated. He thinks he'll have to get very involved in the situation in San Marcos to win her back.I did enjoy the scene with a young Sylvester Stallone (as subway thug) interestingly enough, Woody Allen initially sent Stallone back to the casting agency after deciding he wasn't 'tough-looking' enough. Stallone pleaded with him, and eventually convinced him to change his mind". And I did like Howard Cosell's scenes at the beginning and end of the movie, but I am at a loss as to why it was called "Banannas"