Bezenby
I've seen some bad Italian films in my time but this one sure was painful. Y'see, this is a parody of Hercules films, but as those film are so campy and cheesy in the first place, it's pretty hard to make fun of them, so what we get here is a mixture of the usual Italian slapstick mixed with a war of the sexes type film. It's enough to make your eyes bleed.Muscle bound, Glacchus and his friend Paris are tricked into travelling to an island, are then drugged and find themselves prisoners of a bunch of Amazonian Warrior Women - and it's pretty hard for them to comprehend that the woman are in charge to! Plenty of 'but you're a girl!' dialogue follows.These girls may be tough, but they have needs to and the two main candidates to be next Queen are getting a bit itchy in the presence of our males, which is going to complicate things. The Queen herself (dubbed to sound like Elizabeth II for some reason!) is wondering why she's remained a virgin all her life and wants someone to describe what the 'flavour of a kiss' is. Also the Amazons have men working woman jobs (doing the washing, sewing, cooking) which somehow makes them act extremely camp.I hope that gives you an idea of what to expect from this one. I know we're talking about a different culture and a different time but the Italians were still making films like this about fifteen years later. I asked my wife if the old slapstick humour was still around today in Italian film and she shrugged her shoulders and said 'probably' in a disinterested fashion. So that's that.Only notable for a very early appearance from Mariangela Giordano (from Zombie Dead and Satan's Baby Doll) and the only time I laughed was when a tiny Greek guy grabbed two women and said in a very deep black man's voice "Y'all is my woman now".
Chase_Witherspoon
Comedic sword and sandal attempt has Aussie Rod Taylor playing a cheeky swindler, conned into travelling to an island on the promise of treasure, discovering that he and his companions are actually man-cargo being delivered to a race of lusty Amazon women for domestic and sexual servitude. Doesn't sound all that bad really. Trouble emerges when the warrior-who-would-be-Queen (Gray) falls for the burly Glauco (Fury), deepening a rift between her and nemesis Melitta (Rocca) that spirals into an internecine contest, further compounded when pirates discover the secluded hamlet.It's frolicking fun with a high camp quality that you'll either find amusing or dull. Taylor and Fury rarely have a moment without some form of slapstick or situation comedy, while beauties Gray and Rocca have an hilarious rivalry of which Rocca always seems to be on the wrong end. I thought her frequent stumbles were pretty funny in a corny sort of way, and Gianna Canale's horny Queen Regina constantly bemoaning her chastity vow ("does a kiss have a flavour?") also hit the right note. The three female leads also happen to be exceptionally attractive women to boot, which both Taylor and Fury seem to fully appreciate.Overall, it's a comedy without pretense, featuring a glamorous cast, some witty dialogue, epic sets and the usual colourful costumes. A funny take on domestic role reversal that's politically incorrect but unlikely to offend (e.g. the smug looks on the faces of Taylor and Fury after cheap attempts at groping their masters are rebuffed). Incidentally, there's also a great scene in which a portly, balding and bearded slave plays a kissing Casanova to an endless queue of frisky Amazons that shouldn't be missed for pure ham value.
Hitchcoc
What do you want from this. We have an hour and a half of mugging for the camera. The characters are tiresome and inconsistent. They struggle to get a laugh. Seeing Rod Taylor prancing around made me sad. After all, he was in "The Birds" and "The Time Machine," among other films. How did he end up in Italy doing this? The whole plot is convoluted, anything-for-a-laugh material. At one point all the men are using clichéd "woman" talk about their cleaning, cooking, and ironing. They talk in an affected (homosexual stereotype) way. Of course, this is badly dubbed so how can we know. The women are one way, then another, and back again. Are they warriors or are they only interested in one thing. There's even a jousting scene. How's that for your Greek standard battle? Eventually, the rules at this time have the men winning out like we knew they would. But they are a bunch of baboons who have no reason to gain anything. And these marvelous warrior women lose all their culture and their strength for these guys. It's about as bad as it gets.
dbborroughs
This is horrible.I've seen pretty much every muscle man movie made in the 1950's and 1960's and this is at the bottom of the list.First off the dubbing is terrible. The cliche of Japanese monster movies are nothing compared to this. Secondly its suppose to be a comedy. It appears to have been written and acted as one, unfortunately there is nothing funny about it. The problem is that these films run so close to parody as is that its pointless to make fun of them. The only one that ever worked was the original version of My Son The Hero, which was a good movie even without the humor.Lastly the sets, costumes, ect are overly bad. Again these films run the fine line between reality and parody. Its all of a style that took hold and effectively killed off the genre about five years after this was produced where spandex, beehive hairdos and Max Factor make-up made everything look silly.The plot, concerning two muscle men and their encounters with the Amazons is stupid and comes from the low sex comedies that rarely traveled outside of Italy because they were more juvenile than funny.Its over acted and under done.One out of ten. Its just bad.
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