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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

6/08/2006

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew From London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)

Based on an actual event -- the 1910 London to Paris air race -- this is overstuffed with broad, quickly tiresome types: the drawling aw-shucks American, the British fop, the villainous mustache-twirler, the German militants, etc. Each participant has their own running gag...which gets run right into the ground.

To put it in a nutshell: just look at that title. It's unnecessarily long and not very funny, which just about sums up my opinion of the film.

D+

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