Saturday 28 December 2002

For some unknown reason Channel 10 subjected it's thirteen Saturday night viewers to a showing of Never Say Never Again, the unofficial and freaking awful James Bond film.

Featuring Bond in a toupee, getting offered an enema and playing a pissy space invaders game against the super villian. With Rowan Atkinson as a bumbling British embassy agent, a snake used as an offensive weapon, a cockney version of Q called "Algernon" who won't stop complaining and a performance by Kim Basinger so wooden it wouldn't look out place in a forest this is truly the lowest point Bond ever sank to.

The whole movie is, of course, a fraud. It wasn't made by the same people as the rest of the Bond movies but rather by some dickhead who sued Ian Fleming over the rights to the book version Thunderball and was told that the only time he could ever use the name for a film was if he made a thinly-veiled remake of Thunderball.

Apparently in the closing credits they thank some arms dealer for using his boat in the filming, which pretty much su

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