Thursday, April 24, 2014

For Y'ur Height Only (1981)

aka For Your Height Only, aka The Impossible Kid

How bad is it? It's one of the lowest rated films at IMDB.
Should you see it? Yes.

This homage to James Bond films (the star is billed as Agent 00 - which also appears to be the title of an abbreviated version of this film) is not the worst of its kind. Dean Martin's Matt Helm movies ("The Ambushers," "The Silencers," "The Wrecking Crew," and "Murderer's Row") are all worse, for example. It does have the idiosyncratic dubbing of poor translation, misunderstood idioms and outdated slang. It also stars Weng Weng, who is around a meter tall, but this exploitative detail puts it in the same category as "The Terror of Tiny Town," a novelty that's of average quality. The stunts aren't bad and I was impressed at how they shot at oblique angles to hide the fact that the stunt man was of average height.

This is the only positive review you'll ever see of this film!

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