I loved this movie as a kid, but it really doesn’t hold up so well nowadays. maybe I’m just mad I had to buy the freakin’ thing for $12 when as a Disney movie it should just be on Disney + ?!
Woody (Michael Crawford) is a comic book creator, obsessed with ensuing the exploits of his heroic character Condorman are achievable in real life. When his CIA buddy Harry (James Hampton) needs a civilian for an relatively simple task he unwisely recruits Woody where he encounters Oliver Reed as bad dude Krokov (I can only imagine what his last name is) and the incredibly sexy for a Disney movie Russian spy Natalia (Barbara Carrrera).
This has some fun set pieces, the opener atop the Arc de triomphe and the condor-mobile, plus the suit design is pretty cool and the theme music by Henry Mancini is a total banger, but it suffers from long periods of inactivity and a mismatch of genre, Condorman is a superhero but this plays heavily into spy movie tropes.
Michael Crawford is starred in the UK sitcoms Some Mothers Do Ave em, where he plays the hilarious (yet innocent) accident prone Frank Spencer. Some more stunt based slapstick would have been welcome here and less of Crawford attempting a US accent.
I loved this movie as a kid, but it really doesn’t hold up so well nowadays. maybe I’m just mad I had to buy the freakin’ thing for $12 when as a Disney movie it should just be on Disney + ?!
Woody (Michael Crawford) is a comic book creator, obsessed with ensuing the exploits of his heroic character Condorman are achievable in real life. When his CIA buddy Harry (James Hampton) needs a civilian for an relatively simple task he unwisely recruits Woody where he encounters Oliver Reed as bad dude Krokov (I can only imagine what his last name is) and the incredibly sexy for a Disney movie Russian spy Natalia (Barbara Carrrera).
This has some fun set pieces, the opener atop the Arc de triomphe and the condor-mobile, plus the suit design is pretty cool and the theme music by Henry Mancini is a total banger, but it suffers from long periods of inactivity and a mismatch of genre, Condorman is a superhero but this plays heavily into spy movie tropes.
Michael Crawford is starred in the UK sitcoms Some Mothers Do Ave em, where he plays the hilarious (yet innocent) accident prone Frank Spencer. Some more stunt based slapstick would have been welcome here and less of Crawford attempting a US accent.
