What's Up, Tiger Lily? reviews were mixed upon the film's release. Expressing disappointment in the movie, "The New York Times" stated that "the peppery English sound track wears thin as the action churns around in absolute chaos." "Variety" wrote, "The production has one premise — deliberately mismatched dialog — which is sustained reasonably well through its brief running time." Aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 83% approval of the film, with an average rating of 6.9/10. What's Up, Tiger Lily? What's Up, Tiger Lily? is a 1966 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen in his feature-length directorial debut. Allen took a Japanese spy film, "",
Gas-s-s-s ahead, write something, just keep the title."" "Gas-s-s-s" was an idea of Corman's, about a world where everybody over thirty had died. Corman later said "my first thought was to do a science fiction film with allegorical overtones." Armitage remembers the concept just being "a sentence, and that's what we went with ... He let you make it your own, and I did." Corman said that although "there was some good work in" Armitage's first draft, "the points I was trying to make in the script either did not come through or came through too obviously different parts, and it