You Only Live Twice

One of the most interesting and enjoyable of the Bond films for many reasons. For starters, it takes it's title from the last Bond novel to have been published while Ian Fleming was still alive and other than some minor plot elements and character names that is about all it has to do with Fleming's book. Roald Dahl, the author behind such classics as THE BFG and WILLIE WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY did the script work here and as a result we have some of the most blatant sexual double entendres seen in any of the 007 films. Connery tried his best to pull out of the franchise with this one only to be called back for DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER after the Lazenby Bond flopped and you can see why. While entertaining you can see his weariness with the character and at times he seems to be having extreme difficulty delivering his lines with a straight face. Still, it is one of the most entertaining of the series and will satisfy even the novice to the genre......and ya just gotta love Donald Pleasance as Blofeld!