I had such a crush on Maud Adams as a kid after watching this film, what a beauty !

I have a soft spot for Octopussy - my favourite of the 80s Moore Bond films. The John Barry score is sublime.

The part of Octupussy that has always stuck with me, besides the hilarious title, is when Kamal pops that sheep’s eyeball in his mouth and eats it like mcnugget.

I think you’re being unfair to the other 80s films, especially the Dolton movies. Living Daylights and Licence to kill are really underrated films.

People over 40 just look different back then. I'm 50. And I don't look it at all. I just found at that Linda Hunt is still alive at 76. She could have easily been recast in Dune this year - she was 40 in that one, and she looks older than I did when I was forty. People just look older back then.

I remember Vijay Amritraj from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where he was the captain of the USS Yorktown which was disabled by the whale probe on its way to Earth.

Great review as always ! 👍 I knew that Roger Moore's tenure was over as James Bond was over(even though he did two more films) during the 'hunt scene in India.' When the Tarzan sounds come on during the hunt scene, and we then see Bond/Moore swinging from vines, Tarzan style in a Safari suit ! To quote Edmund Blackadder: 'you just can't beat it.'

Steven Berkoff has two speeds in his acting, asleep and 200 miles an hour. His turn as Hitler in War and Remembrance (the tv series) owes a lot to General Orlov...which has to be a play on Graf Orlok aka Nosferatu. Which is double irony because of Louis Jourdan's brilliant turn as Count Dracula.

I just found this channel not too long ago and I've been watching a lot of these videos since then. Every time the bullshit restocking fee gag comes up, it 100% always gets a chuckle out of me 😂

What's interesting about the snake charmer playing those notes from the Bond theme is that the song was originally composed to sound Indian. Monty Norman wrote it for a never-produced musical adaptation of V. S. Naipaul's _A House for Mr. Biswas,_ which centers on an Indian family living in Trinidad and Tobago.

Why does nobody ever comment on the massive horror movie trope which occurs one Hitchcock film too early in the crop duster scene? Things clearly aren’t going too well when a character gives him a warning that something actually IS very wrong, the crop duster is dusting where there ain’t no crops, but he ignores it. Moments later he’s given the opportunity to escape as the bus pulls up - but doesn’t take it. And we know the rest. This is genius scripting, so subtle that nobody seems to notice it, and yet unconsciously the audience must’ve been hoping he’d get on that bus.

Thank you for the clip of Marky Mark crooning in Ted

I fucking love your antipodean tinged reviews! Nobody does it better, makes me feel sad for the rest 😉

This one's my second-favorite Moore film. It used to be #1, but For Your Eyes Only managed to sneak up on it and overtake it. I see it as the third chapter of the Gogol Tetralogy, charting Bond's uneasy détente with the KGB leader, which culminates in A View to a Kill with the Soviet general awarding 007 with the Order of Lenin medal. (Yeah, Gogol had brief cameos in Moonraker and The Living Daylights, but they were completely irrelevant to the plot.) With no SPECTRE about, I'll take all the continuity I can get.

Maud was 18 years younger than Roger. Lois Maxwell (Moneypenny) was more his age, in fact, older (8 months exactly).

When they played bacarac IS one of The menacing scenes on history of Bond films.

Homer Simpson loves Octopussy. He must have seen that film....twice.

This was the first Bond movie I ever saw. And the funny thing is I was way too young to get the, uh, "giggly pun" name.

If it's almost a sport it's on the Ocho!

I must have watched this film - look, it was the 80s, we watched all the movies that came out - but did I miss that Kabir Bedi was in it as a villain? See, for those of us relying mainly of Italian tv in the 70s, Sandokan was the bomb! We were obsessed with Sandokan - we watched each episode, we sang the theme song, those of us that way inclined had massive crushes on Kabir Bedi, the title character. This is taking me back!

Even though I grew up with the Roger Moore James Bond movies it is weird to think that he looked kind of young in Live and Let Die and then Ten Years Later in Octopussy he already looks really old

Written by George MacDonald Fraser of "Flashman" fame. Fun in a way that current Bond films seem to have forgotten how to have.

1983 Octopussy a Good Year & Good Title Name for a James Bond Film

That scene of J W Pepper reminded me of the devastation that character caused me in having to give up on my life long dream to name my first born child Billybob. Thankfully, I had just recovered when my daughter was born…

Saw this one and View 't Kill in the cinema. Back when it was worth going to the cinema.

that maple syrup eyedrops joke was incredible. great content, my guy. thank you, deadass

This is actually my favourite bond movie of them all mainly because the script written by George MacDonald Fraser is really funny with lots of jokes and charm also some really hot ladies and fantastic live action stunts especially the stuff on the train.

A little late to the party with this video, I've watched a lot of your more recent videos. I've always loved this Octopussy. For me, this and Goldeneye are my favourites. I grew up with the Moore films and he's always been my favourite, living by his wits and determination rather than being a brawler ( i know it's not as simple as that but it's the best way I can put it for now. Steven Berkoff and Louis Jourdan were great foils and there were some other great supporting characters. For someone who wasn't always an actor, Vijay Amritraj had real presence. Though a fun character, it was not so campy that his moments lost their weight. Great action set pieces, great plot, great performances.

(Gives condescending smile...) "Octopussy..."

This should have been Rogers last Bond film it would have been a fitting farewell.

OK Roger Moore should of finished after For Yours Eyes Only. Then again Connery was 53 when he did Never Say Never Again. In box office terms, Albert Broccoli was smart to bring Moore back as he had an audience where as casting James Brolin would of been box office suicide as the audience would of been gone for Connery as he was a legend. As for A View to A Kill there was no logic of casting Moore except for Broccoli maybe him saying "Come on Rog, do one more got 7 Bond for 007".

I have a great fondness for Octopussy, and I rank it #5. It’s a fun, laid-back film with a lot of memorable characters and moments. The two scenes that people cite as the film’s worst moments don’t bother me: the Tarzan yell is a brief little bit, and Bond dressed as a clown is played almost entirely serious, and Moore really sells the desperation.

The saw yo-yo alone puts this film into the Realm of the Gods!

Fun fact: The woman who plays money penny helper in London. Was some big wig daughter who was working on the bond movie at the time. Money penny said so in an interview.

I think Octopussy is better than For Your Eyes Only. By quite a bit. It's got a lot of silliness that's hard to ignore (the Moore era had an odd habit of trying to shoehorn in things - out of place sound effects in particular - which rather artificially attempt to give everything a lighter tone), but what it does get right is well done. Moore's performance is good, Octopussy is genuinely one of the most interesting Bond girls of the series/Adams and Moore have great chemistry, and things like Bond dressing up in a clown costume for the climax could have been stupid but has a dark irony to it that makes it more suspenseful. The villains are fine - not the best, not the worst (although Berkoff's acting is pretty... well, Berkoffian) but compare that to The Living Daylights which also features a conspiracy/Cold War type plot and I'd say the villains here are far more memorable.

Hands down sexiest 'naked ladies in silhouette' opening credits sequence of all the Bond movies. Corinne Russell, take a bow 😍 Oh, and my favourite Bond theme song and score too.

I don’t mind casual humour inserted into action or drama; for example, George Lazenby during the stock car chase: “Looks like we’ve hit the rush hour!” Or Sean Connery after Rosa Klebb’s death: “She had her kicks.” Daniel Craig, being tortured: “Could you scratch more to the left, please?” “Octopussy,” however, descends into idiotic cracks symptomatic of the Moore years. Let’s begin with, “This should keep you in curry for awhile.” Then there’s the outright buffoonery: the Tarzan yell, the crocodile disguise, the hot-air balloon, the tennis racquet, and the India scenes in general. This film was basically “Man With The Golden Gun” on a bigger budget. And with a convoluted plot, to boot! For me, there was no Battle of the Bonds in 1983, just a simple choice: “Never Say Never Again” over this tripe, easily!

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J.W. Pepper is excellent

9:07 Steve Martin would've been a better choice to use here as an example.

I've never seen this, purely because the cringe of the title was impossible to get over. I didn't even know Berkoff was involved and might watch now as he's always fun whilst chewing up the scenery.

i worship villians

Question was it the fake or real egg that was broken

7:48 Hard to believe high paid producers, directors, and writers thought this was a good idea. It's not the first time, in "Man with the golden gun" they added a cartoon whistle sound effect when the car did a 360 jumping over the river. I blame Roger Moore for this, in both movies. I like him but a lot of the sillyness came whenever he was around.

No way. This is the BEST James Bind movie

Well i was only 14......15. 16. Some thing. At the time,,,,,

This might be the nadir

Miss Smallbone gave me a Bigbone. Just thought I'd share that, for some reason.

Amazing that anyone ever released a movie called "Octopussy" and it *wasn't* a parody! 🤯 - *Smersh-pod* do hilarious 80s era Bond 'reviews' if you like that kinda thing 👍 - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftt8d7F4tt3eiYE.html

AN PRODUCT of UNEVEN QUALITY. | Excellent review of an uneven Bond film; too much "American movie", too little European spy cinema.

Sorry, I was more of a Never Say Never Again fan.

James Brolin? No offense, but that makes as much sense as casting Roger Moore as Jesse James.

Sneer all you like, but I've seen Octopussy far more times than the overrated Craig movies. At least 007 does not die in any of the Moore movies and they all have fantastic theme songs.

A part time tennis pro? Vijay was a tennis pro. Full time.

Never cared for Moore or Bronson. They seemed to campy.

“Octopussy” is THE worst Bond movie ever, closely followed by “Man with the Golden Gun.” Although Roger Moore does decent acting in both films, the crap that the scripts give him to do is awful, and the overall stories are incredibly weak, despite a few interesting characters and scenes here and there. Bond in clown makeup doing Three Stooges noises is unforgivable, and takes all the tension and drama out of Octopussy’s climax. (And yes, the title heroine undoubtedly fakes her orgasm at the end.)

If this isn’t the worst of Moore’s Bond outings, it’s certainly a strong competitor. About the only saving grace is Maud Adams, who’s fantastic in the titular role. It’s like she’s flown in from a much better movie. The “humor” in this one is totally idiotic. The plot convoluted. Moore is stiff as a board. Louis Jourdan is alright. Steven Berkoff eats lots of scenery but the role has no depth. Complete waste of Maud Adams and a pretty sizable budget (although not one large enough to rival the scenic globetrotting of Moonraker). It only won at the box office against Never Say Never Again because that crapfest was even worse.

R Moore, the acting eyebrow, the worst Bond of all