Casino Royale

I was 11 years old when this movie came out and never saw it. I decided to watch it and this seller, had a very competitive price. Not to mention that it appears that an official US release of this is out of print.Movie played flawlessly, and had a good pictures for DVD. Would definitely order from this seller, again.

This movie can be played on all Blu Ray players, and plays the English vocal track. It also plays Spanish over dub vocals. There are no "bonus" features like some discs, but they may not play in your region. This one is set up to play in all regions.Also be aware that this is not a "standard" Bond movie. It is a spoof of the Casino Royale book, for whatever reason it was not part of the original group of Bond movies starring Connery and Moore. That said, it is star-studed, has a nice soundtrack and pokes fun at some Bondisms and political positions of the era. The video was cleaner than I expected and the audio was OK. A fun movie, although at times it was hard to keep track of who was doing what to who - get to the end and you'll figure it all out!

David Niven, Peter Sellers etc. I enjoyed watching this but the average James Bond fan that’s under 50 won’t be happy

The best part of this film is Burt Bachrach and Herb Alpert's music.I first watched "Casino Royale" as a kid with my parents. And few times later as an adult.I fell asleep half the time.As kitsch goes, Casino is a classic. It's 1967 through and through. Rowan & Martin's "Laugh In" cheese corn.Sure, the film is a spoof. But it tries too hard.With a half dozen directors (John Huston, included) and as many writers, the entire film is a hodgepodge of what purports itself as "comedy." David Niven is actually very good...he's essentially playing himself, or the characters he plays (caricature). Peter Sellers is simply dull. He throws in some bits of his "greatest hits" e.g. "The Party" and his Indian accent. Orson Welles is beginning his ride to Schlocksville: hawking Paul Mason wine and frozen peas. Oh, there a few good cameos by Peter O'Toole and David McCallum.But Woody Allen. Oy Vey. His schtick seems so out of place. "Casino Royale" is a bloated film with aging and fading greats: sort of the precursor to similar vehicles: "Poseidon Adventure" or TV's "Love Boat." "Why George Raft made a cameo is beyond me. The final sequence (spoiler alert) with the Cowboys and Indians induced wincing. Mel Brooks' (I wonder if he stole this gag) did it much better in "Blazing Saddles."There's nothing terribly wrong with this film. Again, if you like kitsch (and I do), but given the amount of creative heavy hitters, the final package is all the more disappointing. But the music stand up (Look of Love was nominated for an Oscar).

NOTE: This review is NOT for the "Casino Royale (40th Anniversary Edition)" DVD despite the fact that Amazon also lists the review on the product page for that 2007 DVD (note the 2002 date of this review). This review is associated with the DVD released in 2002 - which is available on Amazon. The review references this edition of the movie: http://www.amazon.com/Casino-Royale-David-Niven/dp/B00005JL0I/ref=cm_rdp_productFinally this comedic take on the James Bond series makes its way onto DVD, and for completists and fans of James Bond this 2002 DVD promises not only the 1967 version of Ian Flemings first 007 novel but also an edited down version of the very first James Bond movie, the 1950s CBS TV movie that starred Barry Nelson as James Bond (thats right, Sean Connery was NOT the first actor to portray 007). Made for an American audience, the character of James Bond is a CIA agent in that show and Leiter is the British intelligence agent. That movie, which is listed as a special feature on this DVD, also starred Peter Lorre as the villain Le Chiffre. Made in the days of live television this entertaining oddity is worth watching for the bloopers alone.Years later, the rights to "Casino Royale" made it into the hands of another movie producer who, convinced that any attempt to make a serious version of "Casino Royale" would be doomed without the talents of Sean Connery, decided to make the remake as a comedy instead. With Peter Sellers playing James Bond and Orson Welles taking on the role of Le Chiffre everything seemed to be going fine until a script dispute caused Sellers to walk out on the project. Left with half a movie the producers were in trouble and they scrambled to save their production. One needs to understand this background to the movie to understand why it turned out the way it did. In it's final version it seems truly confused with several actors portraying the role of James Bond and several directors (including John Huston who also cameos as M) taking a crack at it. There is even an early appearance by Woody Allen and former Bond girl Ursula Andress. For me personally, the Peter Sellers scenes are especially brilliant and very funny and David Niven plays the perfect gentleman spy. The action comes thick and fast and in addition to Andress there are a number of actors familiar to devotees to the rival EON productions. This movie is truly

I absolutely love this film. Which is not to say that it's strictly a very good film. Or even just a good one. It is a huge mess - the fact that five different directors (among them the great John Huston who also appears in a small part) were involved in the making of it should be enough to tip you off to that fact. It's very much a case of love it or hate it.This is 1960s psychedelic fun on a cosmic scale. Everybody who was anybody in the world of film at the time is in this. And not only from the English speaking world. You even find France's favourite action star Jean Paul Belmondo in this madcap Bond conundrum. David Niven (who apparently was Bond author Fleming's first choice to play the superspy in the 'proper' adaptions of his books) is basically showing Mr Fleming the finger. He seems to take great pleasure in making the character of Bond look as ridiculous as he possibly can. Peter Sellers and Woody Allen reunite after What's New Pussycat? and add to the fun and confusion. It's all totally harebrained and outrageous. But if you're in the mood for it, it will provide a couple of hours of laughs nonstop. Great film to watch with like minded friends over drinks. Preferably 60s style cocktails as colourful as the film itself.The Burt Bacharach score is memorable and probably the only genuinely good part of the film. Apart from that it's really a disjointed series of Bond themed comedy skits: the chase with the milkfloat, the grouse shoot, Woody Allen escaping the firing squad, the mounted guardsman snatching the girl in a London street and galloping straight up the ramp of a flying saucer... yep, loads of crazy stuff. And yes, I realize this review is as disjointed as the film itself. Which seems befitting.Oh yes, and the DVD is perfectly serviceable. The picture is nice with good vibrant colours and the sound quality is very nice (the original soundtrack is presented here in a digitally restored version). The DVD I purchased has subtitles in English and various other languages (also dubbed audio tracks in German, French, Italian and Spanish).

A James Bond spoof with a fabulously talented cast including Peter Sellers, David Niven, Orson Wells, Woody Allen and Ursula Andres, a big budget Hollywood extravaganza, five talented directors taking on different parts of the film, music by Burt Bacharach and some wonderful sixties production design. So what do you get, you get a near unwatchable mess of near biblical proportions with occasional moments of fun. The very sad thing about Casino Royale is that it could have worked, it could have been genuinely funny, it could have ended up a true comedy classic if more focused minds had been in charge of the production. With a disciplined and talented team it could so easily have been far more successful than it eventually was.By 1967 the popular Bond films were ripe for a big budget parody as there had already been quite a few cheaply made ones released starring the likes of James Coburn and Dean Martin which had been quite successful. All the elements were there ready to be exploited, over the top performances, silly gadgets, an overly complicated and goofy plot, car chases, explosions, beautiful girls, stylish sets, punchy dialogue and some exciting set pieces. However for some pretty obvious reasons, the odd high points are almost completely drowned out by a dead in the water script and a scattershot screenplay that regularly strays between nonsensical and downright ridiculous.The other problem is of course, five separate and very different directors, all with different ideas and styles, trying to make something that is not only uniquely theirs, but that will also mesh with the other visions, and at least three screenwriters. These facts are of course problematic because it adds an extra level of complexity to the production.It's quite clear that some interconnecting tissue between scenes are obviously missing and the narrative doesn't flow organically as it should, but jumps uncomfortably from place to place asking the audience to make sense of it. Players just appear in new locations or different never seen before sets in different costumes with no explanation of where they are or how they got there. The last twenty minutes is so tenuously connected together that you wonder what anyone, especially the poor editor. was actually thinking. In this section a spaceship turns up, cowboys on horseback appear from who knows where, skydiving native Americans drop in through a glass roof complete with feather headdresses, Tomahawks and perform a rain dance. A huge fight scene ensues that goes on forever and it's topped off with a huge explosion. The final shot of all the players dressed in white playing harps in heaven caps off twenty minutes of cinematic mayhem with no rhyme or reason for being.And these issues are really the rub, there is no single vision here, there are about eight different ones all trying to shine brighter than the others. Rather than complimenting each other these different voices actually highlight how different they all are. What you inevitably end up with is three of four very different films mixed together in a cinematic blender and thrown at the screen hoping some of it sticks. Of course I am sure there are some who believe that this was the original intention all along, it's supposed to be a wacky, zany, psychedelic slice of sixties absurdist silliness and was never meant to make any sense. However if you take some individual sections you can clearly see that attempts were made to give the film a narrative coherence, scenes follow on from one another, consequences follow actions and a story of sorts sometimes emerges. But these sections are brief and are lost amongst all the chaos surrounding them.Whilst watching you do get the feeling that telling a coherent story that makes at least some narrative sense and that audiences could follow didn't last long in the makers minds. I suspect the whole overly complicated production got so mired in the huge logistical difficulties that eventually everybody just gave up on the project and a film was eventually cobbled together with what was already in the can. The original vision (if there ever was one) was quickly lost under the productions ponderous weight and no single individual had the power or the inclination to sort it all out. Although often pilloried, Hollywood studio executives were not all dummies and I suspect they soon discovered how bad this puppy was going to be. A freight train of a film with a broken dead mans' switch careering out of control comes to mind with the inevitable crash that usually follows.The purely technical aspects such as lighting photography, locations, sets, costumes, special effects, editing etc. are competent enough and are probably the best part of the whole experience. The performances, even from the normally dependable Peter Sellers, Woody Allen and David Niven are mediocre at best. By wholeheartedly embracing the spoof vibe many of the performances are either stilted or overblown and do the film no favours at all. I suspect that many of the artists soon realised they were making a pile of garbage and phoned in their performances, collected their cheques and moved on to the next job as soon as possible. Sellers from all accounts did not complete filming his scenes and refused to come back to the set if Orson Wells was already there. This might in part explain the missing “bits” mentioned above. Behaviour like this was apparently not unusual. There are quite a few uncredited cameos that I will not spoil for you as I enjoyed looking out for them, however one from a very drunk sounding Peter O'Toole was short (a few seconds) but rather fun and perhaps reflects the unprofessional nature of the whole production.So depending on your point of view you're either going to get a 126 minute depressing and muddled example of Hollywood excess or a gloriously silly over the top piece of sixties aesthetic styling dialled up to a hundred. Of course in the end you're either going to love it or hate, it's the kind of film that elicits these extreme emotions and it's highly unlikely to get a “meh” from most people.Any film from the sixties is going to have issues with race, diversity and sexual politics and Casino Royale is no exception. All of the female roles are essentially nothing more than eye candy for the male gaze and the costumes especially bear that out. Some scenes and dialogue is really quite cringworthy by today's standards and at least highlights how far we have come in terms of representation and equality since it was made fifty four years ago. It's a product of it's time for sure.Even though I have probably given you the impression that I hated this film, I actually enjoyed it far more than I thought I would. It's not a good film, it's not even a competent film, it could easily be called a pretty bad film and I wouldn't disagree with that. Quite how the producers and all the proven talent involved were able to muck up so badly probably has a lot to do with the points I have raised above, but there are probably many more factors that contributed to what, as a piece of entertainment, is a bit of a disaster. However it's the kind of film that is sometimes referred to as “so bad it's good”. Something doesn't have to be good to be entertaining, it doesn't have to be politically correct to be enjoyable, it doesn't have to be Shakespeare to be gratifying and it certainly doesn't have to mean anything. If you enjoy it that is all that matters. I found it quite funny in parts, interesting in others and a reminder of a different time.Budgeted at six million dollars it eventually, because of delays and problems on the set, cost between nine and twelve million dollars. The film was a fair financial success, however according to Orson Wells this was simply because of it's rather striking poster of a tattooed naked lady that caught the public's attention and of course the James Bond connection helped. Even though the critical reception was generally muted and sometimes even hostile, it did get praise for the Oscar nominated song “The look of Love”.The DVD has no extras at all, the transfer is not very crisp and in parts looks a bit ropey but is still perfectly watchable. The sound is perfectly fine if unremarkable. I have heard that the Blu Ray has only a slight improvement in picture and sound quality.Not very good at all, but as a piece of sixties nostalgia it does have some merit.

Had this for years and watched it last night probably for 4th or 5th time. Question is....WHy? It's an awful made worse by an appalling presentation. Filmed in Panavision the producers of the DVD give us a perfect ratio - on a tiny screen surrounded by big black bars. Disgraceful. Having said that, if you can adjust to the size the picture is very good as are the subtitles (if you try to enlarge the picture you tend to lose some quality and some, if not all, the subtitles and if you need them...The film - The humour falls flat an awful lot., but the air of sheer silliness wins me over. It helps that there is one of the most splendid selection of glorious women ever gathered for one film (Andress/Lavi/Pettett/Angela Scoular/Bouchet to name but a few). Many are unbilled including Jackie (sic) Bissett and gabrielle Licudi. It's the women who definitley come off best with the men generally looking a bit unhappy. Sellers kisses Andress so he may have gone home happy, but Allen, Holden, Huston and even Niven with that silly wig he insisted on in his later years, just look uncomfortable. Still the daftness wins me over every time, not least the fun I have in recognising the cream of British talent on show, many in cameos - Cribbins being a prime example. If you can forget the negative reviews, go with an open mind, just be aware that thIs is a DAFT BAD film. Relax and a have a glass of wine (it will help) P.S Deborah Kerr and her appalling Scotish Accent!!! Wonderful stuff.

Horrendous! I cannot believe that the manufacturers of this film approved its release in this aspect ratio! If you try to watch it in its ‘intended’ aspect ratio, all you get it a small, letter box sized picture in the middle of your TV screen, and I do mean a ‘letter box’ sized picture! I had to go into my TVs settings and change the aspect ratio to ‘stretch’ the picture both horizontally and vertically to be able to ‘successfully’ watch the film at all! The acting is abysmal, which again, is hard to believe, considering the list of acting stars that are in it, but it truly is awful. If you are a ‘purest’, and you want to complete your James Bond movie collection, then I guess, like me, you have to buy this film, otherwise I would suggest you give it a very wide birth, and avoid at ALL costs!

CASINO ROYALE [1967 /2012] [Blu-ray] CASINO ROYALE Is Too Much . . . For One James Bond!With gadgets, gaming and girls galore, this camp classic is not only the coolest of the spy films, but it's also a brilliant parody of itself!Will the real "James Bond" please stand up? When secret agency chief "M" [John Huston] is killed, James Bond [David Niven] is thrust out of spy retirement to help smash SMERSH, the band of hit men who are likely responsible. And to protect his real identity, Bond's name is given to numerous other agents, including Evelyn Tremble [Peter Sellers] and Bond's neurotic nephew, Jimmy [Woody Allen]. With five directors, a cast of Hollywood icons that also includes Ursula Andress, Charles Boyer, Peter O'Toole, Jacqueline Bisset and Orson Welles, a soundtrack by Burt Bacharach and a frisky, farcical script, Casino Royale is Bond. Psychedelic Bond.FILM FACT: Burt Bacharach's musical score was praised, earning him an Academy Award® nomination for the song "The Look of Love" and was performed by Dusty Springfield.Cast: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, John Huston, Kurt Kasznar, George Raft, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Terence Cooper, Barbara Bouchet, Angela Scoular, Gabriella Licudi, Tracey Crisp, Elaine Taylor, Jacqueline Bisset, Alexandra Bastedo, Anna Quayle, Derek Nimmo, Ronnie Corbett, Colin Gordon, Bernard Cribbins, Tracy Reed, John Bluthal, Geoffrey Bayldon, John Wells, Duncan Macrae, Graham Stark, Chic Murray, Jonathan Routh, Richard Wattis, Vladek Sheybal, Percy Herbert, Penny Riley, Jeanne Roland, Jennifer Baker (uncredited), Susan Baker (uncredited), R.S.M. Brittain (uncredited), Geraldine Chaplin (uncredited), Erik Chitty (uncredited), Alexander Doré (uncredited), Valentine Dyall (uncredited), Hal Galili (uncredited), Veronica Gardnier (uncredited), Bob Godfrey (uncredited), Jack Gwillim (uncredited), Anjelica Huston (uncredited), Burt Kwouk (uncredited), John Le Mesurier (uncredited), Yvonne Marsh (uncredited), Caroline Munro (uncredited), Peter O'Toole (uncredited), David Prowse (uncredited), Milton Reid (uncredited), Robert Rowland (uncredited), Richard Talmadge (uncredited), Nikki Van der Zyl (uncredited), Mona Washbourne (uncredited), Jennifer White (uncredited) Robert Rietty (Dubbing voice)Directors: John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge (uncredited) and Val GuestProducers: Charles K. Feldman, Jerry Bresler and John DarkScreenplay: Ben Hecht (uncredited), Billy Wilder (uncredited), John Law, Joseph Heller (uncredited), Michael Sayers, Peter Sellers (uncredited), Terry Southern (uncredited), Val Guest (additional dialogue) (uncredited), Wolf Mankowitz, Woody Allen (uncredited) and Ian Fleming (suggested by the novel "Casino Royale")Composer: Burt BacharachCinematography: Jack Hildyard, BSC, Nicolas Roeg, BSC and John Wilcox, BSCVideo Resolution: 1080pAspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audio: English: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono, French: Dolby Digital Mono, German: Dolby Digital Mono and Italian: Dolby Digital MonoSubtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian and SwedishRunning Time: 125 minutesRegion: All RegionsNumber of discs: 1Studio: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentAndrew's Blu-ray Review: At the height of the James Bond craze in the mid-sixties, the studio executives at Columbia Pictures desperately wanted to capitalize on the 007 phenomenon, but Harry Saltman and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, who had a distribution deal with United Artists. owned the rights to every Ian Fleming novel except one ‘Casino Royale,’ which had been acquired by producer Charles K. Feldman in 1967. A deal was struck to create the biggest James Bond extravaganza of all time, but the resulting film was something else entirely a wildly uneven parody that required the services of five directors, countless screenwriters, and a cast of international actors and celebrities, many of them reduced to fleeting cameo appearances.In the early days before Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were in the picture, Ian Fleming's first James Bond title had been sold to Charles K. Feldman for a substantial sum. The bad news is that it would take fifteen years to make it to the big screen. By that point, five James Bond films were already out and there seem to be no hope to make an alternate James Bond picture. The filmmakers in their infinite wisdom decided to scrap the storyline, keep the title, and make a spy spoof which had been making lots of money at that time with the success of the Matt Helm and ‘Our Man Flint’ films. With Charles K. Feldman’s agent connections, he established an all-star cast not to mention five directors to make the ultimate wide spy spoof with the number of 007 attached to it. The result was ‘Casino Royale.'It's a dark time for the spy world. Five agents go to a remote spot to one car to seek out bringing Sir James Bond [David Niven] out of retirement for his assistance. Unfortunately, James Bond has been living a modest life and does not much care about the spy world as he used to. That is, until an attempt on his life at his residence claims the life of his former boss "M" [John Huston] whose only remains happen to be his toupee. After some careful thought at his former boss' residence, he takes over his superior's position to counteract on the mysterious deaths within the organisation using his moniker for recruits to use in order to confuse the organisation known as SMERSH and its chief enemy Dr. Noah [Woody Allen]. This includes a baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble / James Bond 007 [Peter Sellers] and his long lost daughter with Mata Hari. Together they infiltrate their main hideout which is under the cover name "Casino Royale."It was best that a familiarity with the ‘Our Man Flint’ series and the Austin Powers films are enough to satisfy with this all star vehicle. The wackiness plus the use of the kind of jokes that you don't know whether to laugh or not happen to be used to a great extent. A lot of the craziness going on in this movie makes a viewer wonder if the filmmakers were all on something during the production. Nonetheless, it's a psychedelic spy spoof with a nutty sense of some of the previous Bond films as well as brandishing its own brand of cool, thanks to a solid score by Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.The look of the sets in this film is quite breath-taking and full of colour and uses a wonderful stained glass palette that let all the colours explode out sixties style. As for the performances, they all range from being in the movie a little while to a glorified cameo to some uncredited that do surprise and make me grin at their use in this film. All is different in this incarnation of James Bond and 007, and this multi-directed film came with much criticism and was not looked on too highly at the time. It was also not a box office success. However in this day in age when spoofing the sixties is a happening, it does freak me out in a way that spreads it away from the traditional Bond series and into its own groovy mould.By the end, the budget of ‘Casino Royale’ had swollen from its initial cost of $12 million to more than twice that amount. And no wonder the costs were high considering the extensive locations included Paris, the South of France, West Berlin, Ireland, and the Pinewood and MGM-British studios in England. The mammoth slapstick climax alone, featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a French Legionnaire, George Raft as himself, and countless famous faces and cost $1 million and took two months to shoot! Yet, despite the film's troubled production history, there is fun to be had amid the insanity, everything from Scottish comedian Ronnie Corbett as a robot with a German accent to the lovely Jacqueline Bisset as Miss Goodthighs. So, if you want to experience the Hollywood-style Sixties, this is the ultimate pit stop and an enjoyable one had by all.‘Casino Royale’ was a big box-office hit and it's not hard to find passionate fans of the film due to its oddball and chaotic structure; it's closer to a sixties "happening" than a major studio release. After all, what's not to like about a film that features a Burt Bacharach score performed by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Dusty Springfield singing "The Look of Love" while Ursula Andress seduces Peter Sellers, Woody Allen in one of his first screen roles as the megalomaniac Dr. Noah (billed as "the tallest dwarf in the world"), lavish special effects, and groovy art direction with all the psychedelic trappings?Blu-ray Video Quality – Here we have an awesome 2.35:1 aspect ratio and an even more stunning 1080p image is about the most inconsistent that I've encountered on Blu-Ray, then again I've never seen a film with half a dozen directors, either. Image quality varies from scene to scene, but it's a reflection of the source material I'm sure. I will say that Ursula Andress looks as good as ever. Though the detail has been improved over the previous inferior DVD format release, there's still a bit of edge enhancement that I noticed. Still, it's what I believe to be a step up from the previous DVD and if this kind of movie floats your boat - should find a nice home next to the "real" Bond movies in your collection.Blu-ray Audio Quality – The disc has a 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio track, but let's not get too excited? The Audio has been cleaned up a bit and though this title in no way competes with the newer soundtracks, does have a moment or two of greatness. Take "greatness" with a grain of salt, if you please. Dialogue sounds nice and natural with little to no distortion. It's about as close to a mono track as you can get without actually being mono. Still, it's not a horrible or unlistenable mix and for that and I'm very pleased.Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:Audio Commentary: Commentary with Bond Historians Steven Jay Rubin and John Cork: Steven Jay Rubin is author of The Complete James Bond Encyclopaedia, and John Cork has co-authored several books about Bond, as well as biographies of Ian Fleming, Albert "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Cork has also co-produced many of the documentaries included on the "ultimate" Bond DVDs. Between them, Steven Jay Rubin and John Cork provide a wealth of detail not only about ‘Casino Royale’ and its troubled history, but also about film history in general and various personalities both in front of and behind the camera. The commentary often takes on a "six degrees of James Bond" quality, as the speakers riff on the subsequent careers and chance connections of people involved in the film. Example: Woody Allen appeared in ‘Casino Royale’ and did uncredited writing work. In 2006, Woody Allen was nominated for a screenwriting OSCAR®, as was Paul Haggis, making it the only year when two writers who had worked on the same James Bond story were nominated for an OSCAR®.Special Feature: The Making of Casino Royale [2007] [41:30] This special documentary presents a relatively straightforward, chronological account of the film's genesis and troubled production, using informative interview footage from many of the participants. They include directors Val Guest and Joseph McGrath; actresses Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi and Jacqueline Bisset; cameramen Nicholas Roeg and Alex Thomson; and assistant director Roy Baird. The documentary is divided into five parts: Bond . . . James Bond?, A Three Ring Circus, More Directors . . . More Stars!, The Big Climax and It's a Wrap!Theatrical Trailer [1967] [2:22] This Original Theatrical Trailer announces that it is “Too big for just one Bond!” At least so they claimed.Finally, this 1967 `Casino Royale' definitely inspires a 'cult' appreciation. Similar to its finale - this remains a jumbled mass of bubbles and fun. If you can allow the fun to sweep over you rather than scrutinize it - you will definitely be better-off for your viewing experience. Plots don't always have to make sense - and looking at `Casino Royale' as another disjointed 'runaway production' kind of adds to its kitsch. I like the performances and all tongue-in-cheek and the sexy 1960's gals like Ursula Andress, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Jacqueline Bisset etc. plus Bacharach's peppy theme gives it some real joy. The Blu-ray, in my opinion, represents the best it's going to get for this psychedelic James Bond film. Have some fun... the price encourages it and a total honour to add this to my James Bond Blu-ray Collection as it is a fun ride throughout its 125 minutes. Highly Recommended!Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film AficionadoLe Cinema ParadisoUnited Kingdom