Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond

Ok, hear me out on this one. I honestly believe that Ed Wood made this and I'll tell you why? First of all, it is primarily made of already existing footage, an Ed Wood tradition. Next, there is a lot of bad looping of dialog over unrelated footage, another Wood tradition. Third, the performances of Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn are hideously stilted and poorly directed. Fourth, the dialog they have is derivative and extremely Ed Wood like, and finally the director credited is Daniel Davis, which is the name Wood used as an alias as the actor in 'Glen or Glenda.'

Now how could Ed Wood have worked his way into the Eon universe? Well, he was quite a hustler, and managed to get people to go along with his crazy schemes. I submit that he somehow approached Saltzman and Broccoli and, using his alias, convinced them to let him make this promo. Now granted, there is no information out there to concur with my theory, but if you watch this show you will smell Ed Wood's fingerprints all over it.

I couldn't disagree more with the previous reviewer. For one thing, he needs to remember that back then, a clip show like this was pretty much your only way to see the great moments of previous Bond films in that long ago age when you couldn't own your own copy of the film. So the special has to be seen for what it was in an era we can't comprehend today. But the real joy of this program is seeing the new wraparound material of Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny and Desmond Llewelyan as Q as they set up the clips. As these two people appeared in more Bond films than anyone else and whose continuity from one era to the next always acted as a comfortable anchor for the series as Connery gave way to Moore (with Llewelyan enduring all the way to the Brosnan era), it's precious to see new material of them in these beloved roles. Lois gets more to do here than she did in the series collectively and Llewelyan gets a chance to rail about the damage done to his precious gadgets in the previous films, and they both manage to make it natural extensions of how they played the characters in the film. The one thing we could have done without was the silly bit about the unknown actress who wants to become Mrs. Bond. This was a leftover gimmick from when "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was going to be the next film until it was decided to reverse the sequence.

Give this a look in the Blu-Ray supplements and skip through the clips if you must but enjoy the new material with two old and familiar friends who are dearly missed by all Bond fans.

Delightfull documentary where Moneypenny and Q acting around reminiscences through the past, narrated by Patrick Allen and with a clever screenplay which turn a enjoyable look inside all gorgeous bond's girls and about to came in a new Bond movie in Japan, there's a disguised woman who wonder became a definitive Bond's wife, interesting and funny!!

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First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7