
Fielding Mellish (a consumer products tester) becomes infatuated with Nancy (a political activist). He attends demonstrations and tries in other ways to convince her that he is worthy of her love, but Nancy wants someone with greater leadership potential. Fielding runs off to San Marcos where he joins the rebels and eventually becomes President of the country. While on a trip to the states, he meets Nancy again and she falls for him now that he is a political leader.... (Full plot summary below)
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Fielding Mellish (a consumer products tester) becomes infatuated with Nancy (a political activist). He attends demonstrations and tries in other ways to convince her that he is worthy of her love, but Nancy wants someone with greater leadership potential. Fielding runs off to San Marcos where he joins the rebels and eventually becomes President of the country. While on a trip to the states, he meets Nancy again and she falls for him now that he is a political leader.
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| rec.arts.movies.reviewsTed PriggeBananas is a contender for Woody's funniest film and it is definitely one that gets laughs the whole way through. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn attempt to capture the same zaniness the Marx Brothers had in Duck Soup. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyAny movie that attempts to mix together love, Cuban revolution, the C.I.A., Jewish mothers, J. Edgar Hoover and a few other odds and ends (including a sequence in which someone orders 1,000 grilled cheese sandwiches) is bound to be a little weird—and most welcome. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksBananas (1971) is the story of a New Yorker who becomes a South American rebel leader, to impress his political activist love interest Nancy (Louise Lasser). |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrIt is a funny picture—not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits. |
| The TelegraphRobbie CollinEffectively the Marx brothers’ Duck Soup with a Cuban spin. It looks cheap, which is funny in itself, and satire and spoofery are crammed in until it bulges at the seams. |
| EmpireDavid ParkinsonAlthough there are fine homages to Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Eisenstein and Harold Lloyd here, this is a scattershot offering full of apolitical mockery. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealA severely overrated Allen project. This campy string of unfunny gags does not hold up. |
| User ReviewMartin PThis film has a run time of 82 minutes and every minute is funny. Bananas never once stops making a joke, ever. Bananas is down right hilarious and that isn't an opinion, it's a fact. |
| User ReviewMarc-André RI truly believe that this is the funniest movie ever made. No other movie makes me laugh as hard as I do while watching this. |