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I love James Bond movies. I love the Austin Powers trio. When I bought this DVD, I thought it would be great (after all, Austin himself proudly endorsed it). Make no mistake here. This movie isnt that great! I can’t begin to describe the dissapointment I felt after wasting my life watching this pile of junk. The jokes are not funny. James Coburn is vile. I cannot even begin to buy into the premise that he is a super sexy spy. If you are at the store and pick up this film, don’t even think about it – PUT IT DOWN. It is not worth your time.
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment by David — May 5, 2010 @ 4:52 am
First, I highly recommend that you watch this DVD, especially in the context of the “Austin Powers” flicks. I just watched it again for the first time in many years, and looking at it some 35 years down the line, it floored me. It has got “60’s Spy Movie” written all over it. Having said that, I gotta say that “In Like Flint” unquestionably, hands down is the STUPIDEST movie I have EVER SEEN!!! I mean, this movie makes “Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-rama” look like “Citizen Kane”. Ineptly acted, directed, and plotted (plot? Did you know that there is a top secret missile base in the Virgin Islands [which, by the way, look suspiciously like a Hollywood back lot]? And that a group of megalomaniacal beauty spa owners based there are taking over the world by means of secret brainwashing programs which they have incorporated into women’s hair dryers, which permit them to control female Russian cosmonauts aboard a nuclear space platform? I didn’t. ) The villains in this movie are all completely and entirely brain-dead (just as Austin Powers reminded us), and the heroes are not far behind. The stunts and fight sequences are BEYOND SILLY. Nothing makes ANY SENSE! Talk about “suspension of disbelief”–you have to suspend it from a crane. “Gilligan’s Island” looks like Hamlet compared to this movie. I spent the entire time with my mouth hanging open, in absolute awe and disbelief, being sure that it JUST COULDN’T get any stupider, and being constantly amazed that, indeed, it SURE COULD! This is the movie Ed Wood would have made if he had a big enough budget, and I say this as a guy who has all of Ed’s movies on videotape. This is not to say that the DVD is not a whole lot of fun, and to top it off, it is cheap, as DVD’s go. Buy it, watch it, you will be amazed, I guarantee it.
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment by Bernard C. Pattie — May 5, 2010 @ 5:08 am
This is without question one of the worst movies I have even seen.
I know—you’re saying: “Aw, where’s your sense of fun? It’s a comedy. You know, it’s a parody of spy movies. ”
Wrong. “Our Man Flint” was a parody of spy movies. “In Like Flint” is a parody of itself—a mindless, talentless puffball of a movie floating along on its predecessor’s slipstream.
The producers must’ve been so high on the first movie’s success, they thought they could do no wrong. Or maybe they just flew off on vacation and left everyone to do whatever they wanted. Watching this mess, it’s entirely possible.
A ludicrous, unfunny plot (women try to take over the world, then the men who were helping them decide they want to take it over instead, completely invalidating the first premise, zzzzzzzzzzzz. . . ); positively awful dialogue; home-movie-style cinematography (not one creative shot in the whole picture); squirmingly clowny fight sequences; high-school film-class lighting; sets positively cluttered with wooden non-actors; a maddeningly lilting, cloying score that defies anything happening onscreen. . .
And through the whole thing, there’s James Coburn strutting around giving us his “It doesn’t matter how bad this movie is, I’m so cool” smirk, like a smarmy lounge singer on the Titanic.
A parody needs some semblance of intelligence, of imagination, of planning, of technical proficiency. Oh, and of humor. This has none of that.
Proclaiming a movie a parody isn’t an excuse for plain bad filmmaking. This is just a bad, bad, movie. Bad.
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment by Ander — May 5, 2010 @ 5:27 am
I wanted to rent In Like Flint because it is mentioned in the Austin Powers movie. Reviews on amazon said that Our Man Flint was better, so I checked that one out first. I actually liked Our Man Flint. It was NOT what I expected though. People make it out to be a mockery or parody of james bond films, but I didn’t think it was. When I think of parody, I think of Airplane or Naked Gun movies. This was NOTHING like those. Sure, there were a couple of funny things, like the name of the secret government agency was W. O. W. I. E. and he had his super tool that had 80 secret functions (of which you never saw him use more than maybe 6). Our Man Flint had an interesting story, and you honestly wanted to know what happened next. Even though it’s a fairly old movie, it didn’t seem as dated as it could have been. I liked Our Man Flint and I would watch it again.
BUS, In Like Flint? What a bad movie. It had hardly anything of the interesting story that Our Man Flint had. In fact, I didn’t even watch the ending, because I DIDN’T CARE WHAT HAPPENED! I should have known, In Like Flint got some pretty bad reviews here, but after watching Our Man Flint and enjoying it, I figured, how bad could it be? Well, it was pretty darn bad! Boring AND un-interesting. I would NOT reccomend In Like Flint, but I would reccomend Our Man Flint. After watching Our Man Flint, you’ll laugh even harder when watching Austin Powers. . . especially when his super secret phone rings!
Rating: 2 / 5
Comment by The Bus — May 5, 2010 @ 7:39 am
James who? Austin what? Derek Flint is the king of all spies, in this, king of all spy movies. No one is cooler than James Coburn in this film. Definitely recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by Anonymous — May 5, 2010 @ 8:23 am