Reviews

After viewing all the episodes (plus pilots and specials) of the original "Love Boat" and all episodes of "The Next Wave" I found the Next Wave be so much better. The new show was filmed onboard a real cruiseliner and not on a studio set in which the old shows mostly was made. The stories are wittier and more fun. Robert Urich captain Kennedy is much more a captain than the sometimes boring captain Stubbing was and who did very little being a captain and spent most of his time relaxing with the passengers or spend days on excursions and sightseeing in foreign ports in stead of doing his job. The new show has nothing of the dreadful sentimentality that sank the old show. Ok, Isaac, Gopher and the Doctor was funny from time to time but they spent most time harassing all female passengers and trying to get them into bed than doing their job and since they never got a girl they turned out to be real losers. Captain Kennedy´s son is also much more refreshing and fun than the boring Vicki in the original show. Too bad only two seasons were made on "The Next Wave". It was a terrific show, much more colorful and just not almost the same story over and over (and the same ports) as the original show with the same backprojections at the flag pole at the aft of the ship, the same deck view over the ocean and the same pool where all passengers hang around. It seamed that the original writers had a hard time coming up with new ideas and for the last 4-5 seasons the original show was stamping on the same spot without being able to develop itself (Fun however with all famous guest stars but I guess that was to make up for lousy scripts). Most of the non-studio cruises on the original show also seamed to be pure tourist propaganda for different cities around the world. The worst of them all was the Nile Cruise (why should an american captain take command over a Nile cruiseship ?). And why did Captain Stubbing always take a bartender, a purser, a doctor and a cruise director with him to different ships ? And for the crew to have dinners with the passengers was also totally incorrect - and not allowed.

Much better than all the so called "James Bond" movies with Daniel Craig. Lee Marvin is superb, lovely Linda Evans beautiful as ever, plenty of real action and not data-animated rubbish like the latest Bond-movies. This is a must for all lovers of cold war thrillers where Russians was the bad guys. Sadly Robert Shaw´s last movie but he did a great job. Also a nice movie for rail fans.

Bond is really dead and Daniel Craig killed him off. This is not even a Bond-movie. All is gone that made Bond. The thrill, the romance, the humour, the good music, the incredible villains. This is just a bore. Bond looks like a English football huligan. No style, no charisma. Barbara Broccoli really managed to kill Bond off for good. Bond died when Daniel Craig took over. Then it went from fantastic adventures to just boring disaster. Even a trained monkey would be a better Bond than this. Daniel Craig really sucks. If you are a Bond-fan, avoid this mess. I saw this film once and that was enough - never more. What a torture. One had hoped that it would be the end of Bond but he came back in another total disaster, Spectre. Please - kill Bond once for all and let him out of his misery. RIP 007

It is something special about movies of the 60s, and specially those James Bond spoofs. This is one of the more enjoyable. Yes, it is a comedy and it has some real highlights. To bad that there was no sequel. One of the highlights is of course Lee Hazlewood´s wonderful theme, perfectly sung by Nancy Sinatra. and with the perfect "Bond-touch", She also had a far to small part in the film. But another real hightlight is Steve Rossi´s performance of "You Are". But who were the two girls singing it with him ? I can´t find them in the cast list. Any one who knows who they are. Did they do any other work ? I was just intrigued about this stunning song. Actually, I had never seen this film before or even heard of it, except that I have heard Nancy Sinatra´s song, but did not realized that it was made for this movie. It really deserves a DVD release