Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Jacobo Morales, Carlos Montalban, Miguel Ángel Suárez, René Enriquez, Howard Cosell, Stanley Ackerman, Charlotte Rae, Natividad Abascal. (PG-13)
Scattershot comedy (typical of early Woody) filled with one-liners, sight gags and slapstick, disorderly and in bad taste, but that's part of the charm. Allen romances a women's libber (Lasser) canvassing for petition signatures against a banana republic dictatorship; after the relationship fizzles, he finds himself hightailing it to the tiny country and inadvertently getting swept up in the revolution. Awfully spotty at times, especially the courtroom scenes, but has enough laughs to hold interest throughout, and its compact running time ensures that miffed jokes are forgotten quickly. Considering its content and setting during the middle episodes, the final product is refreshingly low on political statement, and even lower on poignancy. Several figures appear as themselves, including Howard Cosell; Sylvester Stallone has a bit part as a subway hooligan.
69/100
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