Not the worst of the Roger Moore-era James Bond films (that disgrace goes to 1985’s A View to a Kill), but pretty close, especially given that it followed on the heels of Moore’s best outing, 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me. More cartoonish than any of the preceding films, Moonraker is silly both intentionally (slapstick humor, sped-up motion, pigeons doing double-takes, that darn indestructible Jaws!) and unintentionally (any Bond film featuring laser guns is just asking for it). The special effects are uniformly good and there are some impressive stunts, but the film’s self-conscious and misguided aping of the late-’70s sci-fi boom is little more than embarrassing. (DVD)