When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
It is a funny picture - not too consistently, and certainly not too coherently, but when it hits, it hits.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
18 Mar 2010
rotten:
Bananas is chockfull of sight gags, one-liners and swiftly executed unnecessary excursions into vulgarity whose humor for the most part can't make up for content.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
4 Sep 2008
fresh:
Wonderfully incoherent.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
Allen's view of the world is fraught with everything except pathos, and it's a view I happen to find very funny.