Bananas

Name: Bananas
Genre: Comedy
Released: April 28, 1971
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Louise Lasser, Woody Allen

1971

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United Artists | Release Date: April 28, 1971 | GP

Starring: Louise Lasser, Woody Allen

Summary: When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

Director: Woody Allen

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: GP

Runtime: 82 min

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Vincent Canby

Any movie that attempts to mix together love, Cuban revolution, the C.I.A., Jewish mothers, J. Edgar Hoover and a few other odds and ends (including a sequence in which someone orders 1,000 grilled cheese sandwiches) is bound to be a little weird—and most welcome. Read full review

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Allen and Mickey Rose have written some funny stuff, and Allen, both as director and actor, knows what to do with it. Read full review

Dave Kehr

It is a funny picture—not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits. Read full review

Time Out London Staff (Not Credited)

Allen's second feature, a tribute to the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, is a wonderfully incoherent series of one-liners centered around a puny New York Jew's unwitting and unwilling involvement in a South American revolution. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Effectively the Marx brothers’ Duck Soup with a Cuban spin. It looks cheap, which is funny in itself, and satire and spoofery are crammed in until it bulges at the seams. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

Although there are fine homages to Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Eisenstein and Harold Lloyd here, this is a scattershot offering full of apolitical mockery. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Although some of the humor falls flat in this Allen comedy, his satire of revolutions and revolutionaries is perpetually topical. Read full review

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