Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

HotToastyRag As everyone knows, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope starred in seven "Road to" movies. For no real reason, I started at the end and watched The Road to Hong Kong first! I have nothing to compare this one with, but it felt like a very well-oiled installment, with jokes and references to the previous flicks included in the dialogue, and with chemistry between the two leads that was obviously cultivated through the decades. In this last "Road" movie, Bob and Bing get mixed up in two very dated concepts: a space race with Russia and making fun of the Chinese. There are tons of mimics and offensive gags about the Chinese people and their culture, so if you're going to sit through this one, you'll need to expect and overlook those. With Joan Collins serving as the fodder for the love triangle, and a pretty cute cameo from regular cast member Dorothy Lamour, the rest of the un-offensive script is pretty funny. Bob and Bing have a constant push-and-pull relationship and their jokes are a great mixture of old-school vaudevillian banter and sixties sex comedy gags. While this was my first "Road" movie, I liked it enough to check out another. This one has really funny, unexpected cameos from Peter Sellars, David Niven, Pat O'Brien, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra! I can't wait to see what the other movies have in store!

bigverybadtom This final Hope/Crosby "Road" picture was made a decade after their prior one, and in this one, they interact mostly with then-newer stars, with Dorothy Lamour only appearing toward the end. The movie begins with the vaudevillian song-and-dance number "Teamwork" where the stars prove they can still sing, dance, and interact like they did before.But this story is different from their past ones. It begins conventionally where they run a scam in India, but Hope has an accident and loses his memory, and Crosby ends up taking him to a lamasery to get an herb to cure his partners amnesia. Mistaken for secret agents at an airport, they are given a rocket fuel formula which the cured Hope memorizes-and when the spies discover what happened, Hope and Crosby are taken to the headquarters of "The Third Echelon", and end up being placed into a spaceship and sent into outer space. Quite the road trip.The song-and-dance numbers are fewer but still good, but as indicated above, the story is crazier than their previous ones, including the ending. Still reasonably entertaining otherwise.

tavm Until now, I had never seen this-the seventh in the Road series-but I had seen all the others previously. Made 10 years after Road to Bali, Bob and Bing are noticeably older but they're still energetic when doing their punchlines and physical stuff. Dorothy Lamour, by this time, had been off the movie screens after Bali and initially didn't want to do this since it would have originally have her just perform a number so now she also has a few banter lines with her former co-stars which I liked immensely. As for new leading lady Joan Collins, she's quite stunning and it's easy to see why she became a superstar years later on TV's "Dynasty" and she's certainly tolerable with what she was given. Hey, she's even a little enjoyable when singing with Bob and Bing! Before watching the whole thing, I managed to see the scene with Peter Sellers on YouTube and he never failed to get a laugh from me every time I watched this especially on his last line that concerned a snake bite! Nice to also see surprise cameos from David Niven, Jerry Colonna-his third appearance in a Road movie after Singapore and Rio, and-to quote Crosby-"the Italians": Dean Martin (who had previously appeared in Bali with Jerry Lewis) and Frank Sinatra! Oh, and I didn't find the scene on the rocket with the bananas force-feeding the boys embarrassing, in fact, I was laughing throughout it all. So on that note, The Road to Hong Kong was as good a way to end the iconic series as one could especially when the movie began and ended with the song "Teamwork".

moonspinner55 Fairly terrible comedy co-written by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, the final "Road" movie for co-stars Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Central Intelligence mistake the bantering duo for Russian astronauts; turns out they're just petty hucksters trying to make a dishonest buck, tangling with spy Joan Collins and getting mixed up in moon-mission espionage. Best part of film is the first twenty or thirty minutes, which includes a funny bit by Peter Sellers and an excursion to a Himalayan lamasery. Collins (with a beehive hairdo) is attractive, but her role makes no sense (why is she passing along secret documents to Hope at all when she's already working closely with Robert Morley, the mastermind behind the nefarious plot?). Panama, who also directed, tries out different themes (amnesia, space travel, Morley's underwater base of operations) all with the same bumbler's approach, but it's no use; the hectic globe-trotting and overly-complicated narrative are both strenuous and dull. The star cameos and songs keep it somewhat afloat, and the production isn't bad (despite sloppy over-dubbing to cover up several instances of apparently risqué humor), but the plot is for the birds. *1/2 from ****