BANANA JOE is another vehicle for the larger-than-life comedy great Bud Spencer, one of his solo efforts rather than a teaming with Terence Hill. It was shot in Colombia and has an exotic look and feel. Big Bud plays a banana seller living in the sticks who finds a local mobster muscling in on his business, causing him to go into town for the first time in his life to sort things out. A fish-out-of-water comedy of errors ensues. This one follows the template of the usual Spencer/Hill pairings, with hilarious fight scenes, plenty of slapstick humour, the droll delivery of Spencer's lines, and overacting goons. It's bright and silly, lively and infantile at times; irresistable throughout.
Review of Banana Joe
