(You can't really spoil this film with a review, but I didn't want to be banned, so spoilers ahoy!)
I have no idea how this movie got the 6.2 rating indicated here at IMDb. I just saw this film on TCM (where quality is not a consideration). I always come to IMDb when a movie is coming up that I've never seen before. I like to get a rating from members, and comments that will give me some idea of what to expect. This is only the second movie I've checked on here that had NO comments at all, so I guess it's up to me.
First, this movie is a comedy, but only the kind of comedy you'd find on McHale's Navy or Mr. Ed. Real low brow, G rated stuff. And they apparently fired anyone even resembling a fact checker on this film. The goofs in this flick are heavy enough to sink a battleship. Let me just give you one example of this, the opening scene with our stars, Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett. Mickey is looking through the periscope of a submarine and asks Buddy what their course is. He responds with a longitude and latitude location, not a course at all. And while it turns out that the sub they are on is in an American desert, the location Buddy gives is actually in China. (I know this is nit-picking, but damn, what a way to start a movie!)
So, I sat through this movie thinking it needed to be commented on. I'm not sure it was worth the effort. Mickey must have been begging for dimes in '61 to do this thing. Hackett never should have been in movies in the first place.There are a nice batch of character actors from the early '60s in this flick, but like Mickey, they are stuck with a script from Hell. And the movie doesn't so much end as just stop. "The End" appears on the screen, but you're left wondering if someone forgot the last reel of film.
It's a talking duck that drinks martini's and has the most highly classified information in his head, which no scientist on earth saw fit to write down. There's your plot.
Watch this one at your own risk.
I have no idea how this movie got the 6.2 rating indicated here at IMDb. I just saw this film on TCM (where quality is not a consideration). I always come to IMDb when a movie is coming up that I've never seen before. I like to get a rating from members, and comments that will give me some idea of what to expect. This is only the second movie I've checked on here that had NO comments at all, so I guess it's up to me.
First, this movie is a comedy, but only the kind of comedy you'd find on McHale's Navy or Mr. Ed. Real low brow, G rated stuff. And they apparently fired anyone even resembling a fact checker on this film. The goofs in this flick are heavy enough to sink a battleship. Let me just give you one example of this, the opening scene with our stars, Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett. Mickey is looking through the periscope of a submarine and asks Buddy what their course is. He responds with a longitude and latitude location, not a course at all. And while it turns out that the sub they are on is in an American desert, the location Buddy gives is actually in China. (I know this is nit-picking, but damn, what a way to start a movie!)
So, I sat through this movie thinking it needed to be commented on. I'm not sure it was worth the effort. Mickey must have been begging for dimes in '61 to do this thing. Hackett never should have been in movies in the first place.There are a nice batch of character actors from the early '60s in this flick, but like Mickey, they are stuck with a script from Hell. And the movie doesn't so much end as just stop. "The End" appears on the screen, but you're left wondering if someone forgot the last reel of film.
It's a talking duck that drinks martini's and has the most highly classified information in his head, which no scientist on earth saw fit to write down. There's your plot.
Watch this one at your own risk.