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Spaghetti Spy, 14 February 2006
4/10
Author: editguy from United States

Super Dragon? What kinda spy name is that?

This is one of the better spy movie send-ups, especially because it takes itself completely seriously. The Dragon is remarkably smooth and smug, and his lumpy, cheerful sidekick Babyface is along to help solve the mysteries of dead colleagues, toxic gum and villains who can't stop decorating. Our Hero is worldly ("Fremont, Michigan? That's a little college town, isn't it?") but accident-prone -- he'll stay away from Ludenkelder after this assignment. This movie is colorless as spy movies go, except for the wild colorings in the ladies' hair. ("Betcha that color comes out of a bottle," one character grumps.) Worth getting the MST3K-ized version of this film, especially for musical interlude provided by Joel and the 'bots.

Unlike such efforts as Code Name: Diamond Head, this movie actually has some decent locations, including a panorama of foggy windmills that looks like a "starving artists" painting.

Be sure to check out Mario Cuomo (well, it sure looks like him) as the art collector with a collection of pen-phones and unlisted numbers. Take my word for it!

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Extremely dull, 1 January 2008
4/10
Author: gridoon2009

Although it is executed with a certain degree of professionalism, and has some interesting touches here and there (like a bulletproof vest that reflects the bullet and sends it back to the sender!), "New York Calling Superdragon" is defeated by its sheer dullness. Not much happens throughout the film: there are no major set-pieces and little excitement. Nearly all of the action is limited to fistfights, unless you count the explosion of an obvious miniature building at the end. Ray Danton is an agreeable cut-rate Bond (and although others here have found him unlikable, I thought he was more respectful to the ladies than the real Bond); Margaret Lee and Marisa Mell are both sexy, but largely used for decorative purposes only; the villains are as forgettable as the rest of the film. (*1/2)

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Marisa Mell and Margaret Lee would give any Bond girl a run for her money., 28 August 2007
5/10
Author: bensonmum2 from Tennessee

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I'll keep the plot synopsis short and sweet. Most of Secret Agent Super Dragon was so unnecessarily confusing that little of the plot seemed to matter anyway. In this James Bond wannabe, CIA agent Super Dragon (Ray Danton) goes up against a Venezuelan drug lord who uses candy to distribute his merchandise. Anything else beyond that wouldn't be much more than speculation as I found myself completely in the dark during much of the movie. I'm not one who needs to be spoon-fed plot points, but how about making what's going on just a little clearer? Too much of the movie seemed like a series of unrelated set pieces that didn't fit together.

But the biggest problem with Secret Agent Super Dragon is the same thing that plagues a lot of these James Bond inspired films – money. The James Bond movies had the financial backing to pull it off. These Italian movies like Secret Agent Super Dragon can't match that kind of money. As a result, they suffer from weak scripts and acting, a lack of interesting multiple locations, poor special effects, a very anti-climatic ending, and anything else you can spend money on to make a movie better.

That's not to say the movie was a total waste. In fact, I enjoyed quite a bit of it. Danton is above average in the title role. He's slick and clever – just what you would expect from a secret agent. Marisa Mell and Margaret Lee would give any Bond girl a run fir her money. Finally, there is a sense of fun about the movie that I liked a lot. Those behind the movie were smart enough to never take it too seriously. As a result, the movie's light, almost bubbly, feeling is an asset.

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Compared to Bond, this is actually "Super Lame Super Dragon", 9 December 2006
4/10
Author: lemon_magic from Wavy Wheat, Nebraska

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Let's face it, the James Bond franchise has been a cash cow for decades and decades, so it's only natural that people who would never get past Albert Broccoli's receptionist would want to make their own version of the character and get in on some of the money, er, fun. The results can be wildly variable. Movies like "Our Man Flint" is at the top of the pile, and stuff like Dean Martin's versions of the "Matt Helm" novels are near the very bottom. Films like "Agent For H.A.R.M." are at the absolute nadir, movies that make you want to punish Ian Fleming for ever starting the modern version of the escapist spy thriller in the first place.

Judged this way, the version of "Secret Agent Super Dragon" I saw, with English dubbing and razzed in the foreground by the Mystery Science 3000 crew, falls somewhere in the middle.(Unlike some purists, I believe that you can judge a film fairly if you see the MST3K version. I always find them amusing, but I can still give a film a fair chance in spite of the heckling from the robots).

The best thing SASD has going for it is the lead actor, who is so incredibly suave and Continental that you can almost overlook his preening smugness. Almost. In order to make the character more exotic and interesting, the screenwriters fall all over themselves to give him unusual talents, especially "yogic control" over his breath and metabolism. Of course, that's one of the ways you can tell a second rate, wanna-be spy screenplay - Bond (especially the Connery Bond) didn't have or need no stinking exotic talents. He was just ultimately cool, tough, and ruthless.

Still "Cooper" is pretty good, if somewhat bland, and he can almost carry the movie. What sinks it, in the end, is the awkward English dubbing (I'm sure the dialog sounded less contrived in its original language) and the unconvincing plot, along with less-than thrilling action sequences and florid, uninvolving costumes and locations. (Except for the windmills...those were kind of cool.)

I'd watch any of the Bond films (even the lamer Roger Moore ones) a dozen times before I'd watch "SASD" again. Still, as a standalone spy film, this is nice, if tame, fun. OTOH, if you're going to compete with the Bond franchise, you'd better bring something really good to the party (like James Coburn) or you are a bound to look pretty lame in comparison. Trying to compete with Broccoli's brand without having the firepower to back their play costs them at least two stars. So: 4 out of 10.

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Best to keep it secret, 29 March 2004
2/10
Author: blazing_l from Queens, NY

Firstly, after seeing Secret Agent Super Dragon, I now pronounce Danger Death Ray! king of all B spy movies. This one hurts so much that I can remember one character in this film named the Joker and I don't even know who that was!! Although our secret agent spy is suave with the ladies, that's most of the action you will see. I can only recall that there are less than 10 gunshots fired – TOTAL! Man, that's what I call a really lame spy thriller. Instead, our spy and his Q wannabe trade witty banter and drop lots of corny one liners. Oh, and the super drug that cannot be traced or detected? The DEA's worse nightmare. And the drug's results in people laughing hysterically, acting crazy and chaotic and violence? Yes, we as a society have all heard of alcohol. Add a secret villain society and a weird ‘W' membership ritual and "super" is the LAST word you'd use to describe this. As exciting as counting needles in a field of haystacks.

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Secret Agent Super Dragon...sounds like a cool, kick ass, spy movie!!!, 25 March 2008
2/10
Author: Aaron1375 from Alabama

Well it is not. Anything but, as this is another in a long line of Bond knock offs where they get a smug spy and think that is enough. They offer nothing in the way of action as the only action we get is a couple of fist fights and one tepid gun fight. I am still trying to figure out the plot to this one as there seems to be a secret agent who is coming out of retirement. He is trying to solve some sort of plague or something that has been causing people to go crazy, I think the source of this is a drug which may or may not be in chewing gum, or it is in vases. On the plus side we get to visit Holland. Seriously, though this movie is rather bad, it was not fun to watch with the exception of the very attractive ladies who accompanied our stupidly smug agent who also had an annoying sidekick that seemed to do more than said agent. The plot is nonexistent as it goes here and there, never revealing the leader of the sinister plot, only his art loving assistant as I am thinking they were planning to have sequels to this. Hopefully, there were not any and I would recommend to the makers of this film who are most likely dead...Don't title your movie Secret Agent Super Dragon unless you are planning to have some really cool fight scenes and some explosions.

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The eyelashes are thicker than the script..., 30 March 2004
4/10
Author: DwightFry from Burela, Lugo, Spain

WAY thicker, actually. After a promising beginning involving a metronome, a swimming pool and two beautiful legs under a pink skirt (for a moment you hope this will be a 60s extravaganza in the vein of Diabolik), this clunker way quickly degenerates into boredom, presenting a main character, Bryan Cooper aka Super Dragon, who is as unappealing and dull as he can be, because he is a goody li'l two shoes that does everything by the book... YAWN! The fun of the best 60s spy movies is resistance to authority and strong, colorful characters whose motto is "There are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way and MY way". Well, Super Dragon's way is always the right way. Can't get more boring. Well, it can if your sidekick is a chubby "Q" wannabe who looks like Joe Don Baker.

Unfortunately you have to go through one hour of non-action to finally get to see some mildly interesting 60s set pieces in the villain's lair (which are nothing to write home about anyway), and a mask ball scene filled with Kato masks, but nothing of that is really worth waiting.

At least the girls are pretty enough, and one of them is the gorgeous Marisa Mell (Diabolik), but, oh, those eyelashes! You could asphalt four New York streets with all the eyelashes mask used in this movie! And I guess that back in the sixties kissing meant pushing each other's lips...

Er... I don't want to be picky, but can you actually put a guy in water and electro-shock him THAT long without frying him?

4/10. For being from the 60s.

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Bowling, basketball, and babes, 7 October 2006
4/10
Author: John Seal from Oakland CA

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This review is based on a decent dub of a fullframe English-language print with Greek subtitles. Ray Danton makes for a passable if fairly bland Bondalike in this Eurospy entry, which features Super Agent Superdragon doing battle with evil genius Fernand 'don't call me Fernando' Lamas (Carlo D'Angelo). Ably assisting him are beautiful undercover agents Comfort (Margaret Lee) and Charity (Marissa Mell), who tells Superdragon he'll have to assume she's a genuine redhead--for now. Also helping out is gadget expert Babyface, played for comic relief by heavyset Jess Hahn, a few years away from playing opposite Marlon Brando in the kinky kidnap drama Night of the Following Day. Some of the highlights include a scene in a bowling alley (did they have bowling alleys in '60s Europe, or was it a set?), a high school girls basketball practice that descends into a catfight, and some picturesque location footage which probably looks more impressive in the film's original 2.35:1 aspect ratio. A pretty run of the mill genre entry with a decent cast but not much story.

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Smuggest agent super dragging, 5 April 2006
2/10
Author: Torgo_Approves from El Paso!

All straight criminals beware when Bryan Cooper, alias Super Dragon, comes out of his early retirement to battle evil once again. Our bland villain has killed off one of Bryan's mates and now plans to spread a chemical in people's drinks that will turn them into senseless maniacs (as if ordinary booze isn't good enough at that)!

Ray Danton's pathetic job at playing our smug, unlikeable hero is amazing, right up there with Peter Mark Richman in Agent for H.A.R.M. How should I describe Mr. Danton? Think George Clooney, then remove what little personality he has and erase From Dusk till Dawn from his merits list. That's how bad Ray Danton is.

This movie is a typically bland, dragging Bond rip off which is so unbelievably dull, not even some hot 60's girls help much. I counted two action scenes in the entire movie and the soundtrack was so bad it made the jazz Muzak from 'Manos' seem like Mozart. You will want to miss this one - the only entertaining part of SASD is its hilarious title.(r#9)

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Secret Agent Boring Dragon, 1 November 2002
1/10
Author: Dan Mudd from USA

Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966) is the worst spy rip off movie I have ever seen. Somebody killed Super Dragon's friend so this leads to some kind of drug that kills or something. I could not follow the plot. Let's not even discuss the bad audio synchronization, the poor film quality, the dismal editing, the bad acting...ugh...it's so bad! I didn't like the hero's voice at all either.

Not only does the villain do nothing, the hero is the most annoying character I have ever seen! Why did he need that guy that was in prison, also?? The women were quite beautiful. It's easy to have that in films though. Of course, in 1966, this was a popular time for spy cinema. Every movie company wanted to produce another "bond-like" clone to sell to bond hungry audiences. Thankfully, this was the last and only Super Dragon. As far as I know....

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