YMMV / The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

• Fanon Discontinuity: Fans of Peter Sellers prefer to forget that this film exists and instead tend to regard the more worthy Being There as his true final film.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Fu Manchu keeps his heart beating by intermittently giving himself electric shocks. This was Peter Sellers' final completed film - he died of a heart attack the year it was released.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Helen Mirren impersonating the Queen? Gee, that sounds familiar...
  • When Fu's men first attempt to kidnap Mirren in disguise as the Queen, half of them are dressed in yellow suits, wear goggled gas masks, and speak only in gibberish. And they later steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
• Values Dissonance: This is the most recent Fu Manchu movie due to yellowface, blackface, brownface, etc becoming considered unacceptably racist during the 1980s and would be career suicide if done today. The closest thing we've gotten to a modern Fu Manchu film is Nicolas Cage playing him in Rob Zombie's mock trailer for Werewolf Women of the SS, featured in Grindhouse, mostly because it's known to be an Homage to B Movies and because it absolutely takes Refuge in Audacity.

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