Definitely not one of the better Bond films. Perhaps I was expecting too much given that it was written by Roald Dahl; I kept waiting for some beautifully twisted touches from the mind behind Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alas, it turns out to be a fairly straightforward and pedestrian 007 yarn with the main stand-outs being the bad special effects in the outer space sequences, the embarrassing scenes in which Connery goes “undercover” as a Japanese peasant, and, of course, the revelation of Donald Pleasance’s Dr. Evil-inspiring Blofeld inside a massive, hollowed-out volcano. (DVD)