BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

gridoon2018 "Charlie Chan At The Olympics" could have been a by-the-numbers, albeit well-produced, entry in the Charlie Chan series, but there is an emotional element that sets it a little apart from the others: Charlie shows genuine concern and anguish when his No. 1 son is kidnapped. Keye Luke is a strong asset to the movie, as are the 1936 Olympics footage and the surprise at the end. My favorite Chan line: "Suspect recent activities of swimming cause water on brain!". **1/2 out of 4.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Chinese/American PI Charlie Chan, Walter Oland, and his #1 son Lee, Keye Luke, are off to the 1936 Berlin Olympics for two different missions. Charlie to find a stolen air guidance system device that can control pilot-less air planes, much like the drones of today, in any future combat missions. As for Lee he's a member of the USA Olympic swimming team looking to win a gold medal for the good o'l USA in the 100 meters dash swimming race. Charlie gets help from Berlin police Captain Strasser, Frederick Vogeding, who's not up to par to Charlie's superior investigation tactics. That leads the very impressed Captain Strasser to admit to Charlie that even though he isn't an Aryan or member of the master race he's a far much better crime investigator then he is. Something that can have Captain Strasser thrown behind bars for disloyalty to his country if his superiors in the Nazi Gestapo ever found out about it.Charlie gets to the bottom to who stole the guidance device back in Honolulu to a foreign agent of an unmanned country as well as international arms dealer named "The Honorable", as Charlie Chan referees to him, Charles Zaraka, Morgan Wallace. It's "The Honorable" Charles Zaraka's goons who end up kidnapping Charlie's son Lee in order to get the device, that Charlie had since lifted from him, back. Charlie putting his life on the line goes into the lion's den, "The Honorable" Charles Zaraka's hideout, with the device to save his son Lee's life. But unknown to "The Honorable" Zaraka Charlie planted a tracking device inside the guidance device to let the Berlin Police know exactly where he is and hunt down and arrest "The Honorable" Charles Zaraka and his gang.***MAJOR SPOILERS*** The big surprise in all this is who really stole the guidance device and tried to sell it to the highest bidder. It was non other then the person who invented it Mr. Cartwright, John Eldredge, who like the super capitalist swine that he is was more then ready to sell out his country and murder a number of innocent people along the way to make the big buck that he felt the US military wasn't giving him for his gadget. There's also the German airship Hindenberg featured prominent in the movie that Charlie Chan is a passenger on. It caught fire and crashed with all on board on May 6, 1937 outside Lakehurst new Jersey. Just three weeks before the movie "Charlie Chan at the Olympics" was released to the movie going public.

susvulo In the scene on board the Hindenburg involving CC and 2 other men, look closely at the title of the article in the magazine that the seated man is reading. It's "Think fast, Mr. Moto"!!!I enjoyed this CC movie for its locations. Opening in Hawaii w/#2 son. On board the ship with #1 son. CC flying in the Hindenburg. And finally the Olympic Stadium. Jonathan Hale, as usual, is just suspicious enough to be a legitimate villain/red herring...(???) The arms dealer, foreign diplomat and the lady w/the white fox fur all add intrigue and deception to the plot. We also get to check out Warner Oland's physical condition as he jogs with his shirt off for his physical at the movie's beginning.

Spondonman Every four years comes the Olympic Games which is when the leading capitalist corporate brands and countries strive for world supremacy, and the hyped-up media urges the public to admire athletic junkies beating the clean and honest. I wonder if the trillions of dollars spent on it could be better used to try to feed the hungry and cure the diseased? Give me a three-legged race at a junior school any day!Charlie has no such hang-ups about going to Nazi Germany. He wants to go on fish-hunt but ends up on man-hunt instead as secret government McGuffin that enables war planes fly by remote control is stolen. The trail and chase to recover it leads from Honolulu to San Francisco to New York and Berlin – with swift global communications it was such a small world after all! At first he's helped by little Cheeky Chan, but when he gets to Berlin no.2 son Lee takes over who is participating at the Games as a swimmer. The likely suspect is the dame in the white fox fur but it turns out more complicated involving gangs of spies and a maze of sinister characters, and all in Berlin too. It's intrigue at warp speed, hardly a second is wasted. Favourite bits: the footage of the Hindenburg (and its unperturbed passengers) beating the ocean liner's passengers to Germany; Charlie's touching faltering concern for the kidnapped Lee; the denouement; Lee continually trying to spout killer aphorisms like his Pop - or something like that!Overall imho a good entry in the series with a slightly different format to those preceding, and I'd rather watch this than the real Olympics - no contest.