Deliberate, not accidental, "camp"
19 November 2004
Warning: Spoilers
I've known it on and off for a long while, and even have a copy. It might be a minority opinion, but I think most of the "campiness" was deliberate (as it is in countless stories of this kind). The scenes with the hero, the villainess, the "Bond girl" characters, almost all have that way about them. That's one reason (though I said this about another movie like this) that the ending surprises me just a little. The hero deals pretty ruthlessly with the villainess, then takes the big important things she stole, and steals them for himself! Whether deliberately "campy" or accidentally so, that's a little surprising for a light adventure story. About my only objection to it is kind of a big one, though. I think it should've been either a "tongue-in-cheek" super hero story, or a tongue-in-cheek "Bond movie spoof", but not both (even though that's the main idea of it). But "tongue-in-cheek" (as opposed to just plain bad) it pretty definitely is.
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