Bananas
United Artists | Release Date: April 28, 1971 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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The New York TimesVincent 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
70
Time Out LondonStaff (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
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
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
70
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
It is a funny picture—not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits. Read full review
60
EmpireDavid 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
60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (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
60
The TelegraphRobbie 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
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