Amazon.com video review:
What better way for writer-star Woody Allen to cash in on the
success of What's New
Pussycat? than to write a quickie exploitation comedy that
makes fun of quickie exploitation films? In some respects What's Up
Tiger Lily? is a forerunner of Mystery Science Theater
3000, only instead of having actors sit back and make
sarcastic comments about a cheapo movie, here they dub new dialog onto
a ridiculous Japanese spy extravaganza. Allen's exquisite sense of the
absurd is in fine form as espionage professionals pursue a top-secret
recipe for egg salad. At one point during the planning of a break-in,
a spy unfolds a map of their quarry's residence, explaining that the
man "lives here." "He lives on that small piece of paper?" questions
one of the henchmen. It's that silly. But it's often
uproarious. Louise Lasser, Allen's former wife (and co-star of Bananas and future
star of TV's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) is among the voice
actors. --Jim Emerson
