I think some of our reviewers here are a bit too critical. But on the other hand, others of our critics here are too generous.My take on this -- it was "nice" to see Bing and Bob cavorting again one final time (although they continued on television specials) on the road to...ah, let's see...Hong Kong this time. But to me there were two problems. First, in an urge to be ultra modern at the time (1962), they had to put the boys in a space movie. That didn't really work. And, they exchanged a singer who couldn't sing -- Dorothy Lamour -- for an actress who couldn't act -- Joan Collins. Although in all fairness, it wasn't until later in her career (as in "Dynasty") that Joan Collins learned how to be a really poor actress; earlier in her career (and here) she was "okay". Frankly, I'd much rather have had Dorothy Lamour as the appropriate age love interest here (instead of Bob and Bing at 59 and Collins at half that). But, at least we had the extended cameo with Dorothy Lamour. And speaking of cameos, there are great ones here by Jerry Colonna and Dean Martin with Frank Sinatra. I guess I'd have to say that this is my least favorite road picture, but it's still okay...and a nice family reunion.Incidentally, I watched this on the Olive Films Blu-Ray disc, which was...well, I can't say crisp, because I find many of the Olive Film restorations to be grainy...but it still looked pretty darned good.

This final Hope/Crosby "Road" picture was made a decade after their prior one, and in this one, they interact mostly with then-newer stars, with Dorothy Lamour only appearing toward the end. The movie begins with the vaudevillian song-and-dance number "Teamwork" where the stars prove they can still sing, dance, and interact like they did before.But this story is different from their past ones. It begins conventionally where they run a scam in India, but Hope has an accident and loses his memory, and Crosby ends up taking him to a lamasery to get an herb to cure his partners amnesia. Mistaken for secret agents at an airport, they are given a rocket fuel formula which the cured Hope memorizes-and when the spies discover what happened, Hope and Crosby are taken to the headquarters of "The Third Echelon", and end up being placed into a spaceship and sent into outer space. Quite the road trip.The song-and-dance numbers are fewer but still good, but as indicated above, the story is crazier than their previous ones, including the ending. Still reasonably entertaining otherwise.

Until now, I had never seen this-the seventh in the Road series-but I had seen all the others previously. Made 10 years after Road to Bali, Bob and Bing are noticeably older but they're still energetic when doing their punchlines and physical stuff. Dorothy Lamour, by this time, had been off the movie screens after Bali and initially didn't want to do this since it would have originally have her just perform a number so now she also has a few banter lines with her former co-stars which I liked immensely. As for new leading lady Joan Collins, she's quite stunning and it's easy to see why she became a superstar years later on TV's "Dynasty" and she's certainly tolerable with what she was given. Hey, she's even a little enjoyable when singing with Bob and Bing! Before watching the whole thing, I managed to see the scene with Peter Sellers on YouTube and he never failed to get a laugh from me every time I watched this especially on his last line that concerned a snake bite! Nice to also see surprise cameos from David Niven, Jerry Colonna-his third appearance in a Road movie after Singapore and Rio, and-to quote Crosby-"the Italians": Dean Martin (who had previously appeared in Bali with Jerry Lewis) and Frank Sinatra! Oh, and I didn't find the scene on the rocket with the bananas force-feeding the boys embarrassing, in fact, I was laughing throughout it all. So on that note, The Road to Hong Kong was as good a way to end the iconic series as one could especially when the movie began and ended with the song "Teamwork".

There are no bad ROAD movies, and I do not except this one from that statement. As someone once said of the Marx Brothers film AT THE CIRCUS (and I paraphrase) in the career of any other comedy team this picture would be considered a classic. It not only holds its own with the rest of the series but I actually prefer it to ROAD TO RIO, which (while still adhering to the Road Rule stated above) always seemed like the weakest of the series to me. It's funny the reasons some other posters have given for not liking the film: It looks like it was made in the Sixties (it was), the stars looks like they're nearing their sixties (they were, and so what?), it's not as funny as the others in the series (in any given horse race one horse will come in last, but he still had to be pretty damn good to get into the race in the first place). And nobody seems to much like Joan Collins. Well, she was gorgeous and a competent enough actress and in a movie like this who cares anyway? It's Bob and Bing's movie and despite what anyone says they prove they've still got the goods and deliver them with ease. I say quit carping and enjoy.