It's being released on DVD by Image Entertainment in June!
The film is featured on Wikipedia. Here's what it says about the dubbing of other films to change their plots and add comedy;
"Replacing a foreign movie's soundtrack for comic effect has since been used in television shows like Kung Faux, Spike TV's MXC, and movies such as Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D, Troma Entertainment's Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters, René Viénet's La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques ? (Can dialectics break bricks?), and Steve Oedekerk's Kung Pow! Enter the Fist. Fractured Flickers, which predated Tiger Lily, dubbed silent films with comedic dialogue. Some[who?] have also suggested the film as a possible inspiration for television's Mystery Science Theater 3000, in which old "B-movies" are accompanied by a humorous running commentary throughout."
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rasheed_node
12 years ago
The basic idea behind this film is just great and very original but the end result in this particular case is just bogus, wastage of time, energy and money.
I'm a great fan of Woody Allen (Any film, any time, except, of course, 'What's up, Tiger Lily) so I have to watch this movie but than let me add here that if this was the first film of Woody that I had seen, I might had not dared to watch another Allen film, ever!
You are pardoned and excused, Woody!
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holbrookp
12 years ago
Yes, it's lost something in the years since. Originally it was hip and clever, attracting the kind of crowd that likes to think of itself as sharper intellectually than the rest of us. Parts of it are just not very funny anymore. I would love to hear Allen's audio commentary (if he provided one) about how he regards the film now.
"Truth is its own evidence." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ridge-m-1
9 years ago
Obviously, this viewer cannot speak for Woody Allen but his view on the inclusion of The Lovin' Spoonful footage was fairly well known to be negative at the time of the movie's release. Those of us that lived through that eventful decade and appreciate the music of that group enjoy the vibe created because they were an integral part of the music scene back in the day.
The film is a cult comedy classic. Many members of the cult could care less about the opinions of those that aren't members. Those views will not change the iconic status of the picture.
This film aficionado compares "What's Up Tiger Lily" to the film "Candy", another cult classic comedy filmed in the Sixties. One either gets it or not. Younger critics of these two films are handicapped by virtue of never experiencing the culture at the time these films were made.
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