Bananas
Dir: Woody Aleen
1971
***
Riding the cusp of acceptably is something Woody Allen films are good at and this is a perfect example but then to take any of it too seriously would be foolish. The story is great, with consistently funny scenes. Allen himself is particularly good. However, while the jokes come thick and fast, they come a little too fast at times and there are times when it's just an incoherent mess. It's a combination of impatient directing and incompetent (OK, maybe just naive) editing. The 'hits' outweigh the 'misses' and it's pretty good for a first proper feature films (not counting the first two films due to one being voice-over work and the second being a 'mockumentry')