Awesome Movie

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

My favourite movie from my childhood, it has everything, charismatic lead, superb female counterpart, fabulous slapstick from a slapstick genius, fast cars (Porsche 911) , evil (alchoholic) overlord, scary henchmen, gadgets galore, lasers, and plenty of peril!!! What's not to love??

Award-winning director (won the 1970 Golden Globe for "Anne of the Thousand Days") Charles Jarrott no doubt profited by his many mistakes on this Walt Disney attempt to make a juvenile James Bond imitation, which failed dismally, thanks not only to Jarrott's heavy-handedly inept direction, but to its witless script and much frantically unfunny acting. Michael Crawford, would you believe it, tries out a most uncharming American accent throughout, and the heroine (!) seems to have a permanent five o'clock shadow, thanks to Jarrott's relentlessly TV style direction of using close-up after close-ups after close-ups The special effects are tatty too!

I first saw this movie when I was about 12 years old and loved it. It was by far my favorite Disney movie that wasn't animated.The movie stars Michael Crawford who plays Woody/Condorman. He is a comic book writer who is recruited to help a beautiful Russian agent to defect (Natalia). He instantly falls for her and risks his life to save her.Full of laughs and some older special effects, Condorman also features two great chase scenes (one in a car, one in a boat).If you are like me and like tongue-in-cheek humor with some cool gadgets, then you will like Condorman.

This is a kid's movie that I wonder how it could have even appealed to me as a kid back when it first had a little more, uh, technical relevance I suppose? Actually, no, I wouldn't guess so, if at all ever? Was it a tax write-off? Or maybe the filmmakers took too many drugs and drinks while watching James Bond and Pink Panther movies? Or maybe they knew what they were getting into and thought they could still pull off a legitimately entertaining movie for the whole family. I really have no idea how I would've reacted to this is I were a kid, but as a twenty-something, me and the friends I watched it with became practically the Mystery Science Theater guys, heckling and making up lines as it went along. And, in truth, I might've done it even if I was watching it alone. It's camp without knowing it, or if it does know it maybe it's all the smarter for it. But it does try to pass itself off as something for the kiddies when really it's just too ridiculous and inane for anyone.Maybe the title gives it away, but there you have it- he's a man, but he's also a condor, get it? Well, to put it plainly if I can, Woody Wilkins (Michael Crawford) is ambivalent for about a second to take his 'Condorman' idea to the next step- to team up with the CIA! His mission is to stop a Russian terrorist, played by Oliver Reed, while also with the seductive Ruskie 'Bear' (Barbara Carrera). That's really all you need to know, oh wait, there's more: there's a lead henchman with an eye-patch, or is that a marble eye, or both? How about big gargantuan title cards to introduce every single locale (though sometimes, like with the alps scenes, becoming a little confusing again)? Or massive explosions? I think that might sum it up. But really, if you seek out the movie, you should know what to expect not just from the title but from just the LOOK on the cover of the DVD or VHS. It might be one thing if British director Charles Jarrott went for such silly subject matter with more gusto, but it's almost as if he KNOWS how goofy this is, and has car chases that just spring out of nowhere, plus a climactic speed-boat challenge where even more big explosions happen (and the ratio of the henchmen who jump off the boats before explosion and those who stay on during it is maybe 1/2 and 1/2).In other words, it was perfect as a kind of film to rag on, to put it mildly. It might be one thing if it was so good it's bad, but it turns it it's so mediocre it's just, well, bad. It's got heroes and villains that put out dialog that sometimes is a little incoherent, the bumbling sidekick who is SUPPOSED to be a CIA agent, and that darn one-eyed henchmen, come together in a film where said Condorman only takes flight for less than four minutes! If anything kind can be said about it, it's at least not a boring bad movie, where its so relentless with cheesiness that it becomes wearisome. It's almost too whacked out to get dull at any one point. It is consistent in trying to be entertaining when it really isn't, however it thus becomes on the flip-side entertaining again as fodder for the sort of slings and fun that would make Statler & Waldorf of the Muppets die to dig in on. It's simply one of the most unintentionally funny movies of the 80s, at least from Disney.