What's it Meta For: What's Up, Tiger Lily?

By Tom Swift

“What’s Up Tiger Lily” is metafor shits and giggles. The film uses the fact that the audience knows that the audio track is not the one used for the original film and uses that understanding to play off of and undermine the thin line separating the original’s undeserving seriousness. This is also engorging to the mental phallus because his use of meta’s infinite abilities: film is a dualistic medium in the sense that it engages two senses - eyes and ears; Woody has only to change half the movie to direct attention to several overlapping layers, complementing the awareness of audiences everywhere. It’s obviously silly as fuck (serious, but undermined comedically from a more objective angle) and obviously absurd to the point of prejaculation. This movie is the delight of my life. 


5 out of 5 stars