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Notes on Caligula... This is an uneven film. It's something to see, if only to look at what happens when the people in charge are not sure about what kind of movie they want to make. I'd be okay with it as a spectacle of sins of the flesh. That'd be fine. It'd also make a nice flick about the madness of our man Caligula, who, by all accounts, was a few grapes short of a bunch, though that could be excused in part or in toto by the fact that most of the rest of his familly got killed because they were candidates for the throne. That might make anyone mad. (The actual film didn't show this -- Wikipedia talks about it, though.) It'd make a lovely, Monty-Python-esque carnival of the absurd. It'd also be a fun political mess. Instead, it bounces around like a pinball, veering into one of these bumpers and whipping back to hit another. The overall effect is less than successful. A more certain hand in direction would have done nothing but good for this production.

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