Review of Man Friday

I rather enjoyed the movie, much like a Monty Python type of humor: absurd, ridiculous, sometimes plain goofy, other times genius, theatrical (as is often O'Toole himself), and, of course, very much ideological, with themes like racism, imperialism, capitalism, homosexuality not a bit discreetly woven into the story.. as in a caricature, if you adjust to it's absurdity and ignore it's obviously inconceivable details like Friday's well-educated man appearance and sudden use of such fine English, or his tribe's use of English, macramé clothing and modern music, or some unnecessary scenes like Master and Friday paragliding together, it can be quite fun.

So if you don't take it too seriously or agonize over it's ideas, it is fun, intelligent, lush and tender (even on Master's side sometimes).