Lack of good storyline.

Dreadfully Boring

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Just Jaekin's film based on John Willie's bondage comic The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline. In in the Orient in the 1920's or 30's Gwendoline and her best friend ship themselves over seas in order to find her missing father. Gwen is discovered in a crate and kidnapped and brought to a crime boss. Rescued by accident by a handsome hunk of a guy Gwen, her friend and the guy end up wandering off into the jungle/desert/lost city in order to find her father.As you can tell from the lack of names this really isn't good enough to pay attention to. Sure it has lots of beautiful women (almost all of the naked or semi-naked variety) and some decent action, but the over all direction (a bit too slack)and much too whimsical script under cuts its ability to send up films of the Indiana Jones variety.Yes its amusing for 20 minutes or so but then you realize that there are 80 more to go and you end up groaning loudly.The selling point of the film is the look. Its very much a fetishists dream with the lost city's Amazons all dressed in revealing leather, while the city itself contains some very nasty torture devices. it looks great and to be honest its the sort of thing thats gonna play oh so much better with the sound off.I'm still pondering how the heck I ended up with a copy of the film on DVD since even though I've read some recent vintage articles on the film which argued its better than its reputation, I never really liked the film much when I saw it all those years ago when I managed a video store. Still the extras are informative, and there always is the resale market.I'd take a pass on this one.

Perhaps the best movie ever to be made (starring Brent Huff)...What can I say? I tried to review NEMO (1984) a while back and was pretty lost for words. Whatever happened to films like this? There was a period in the early to mid 80's where cinema just went... not wrong... balmy, I think is the word.This has been called INDIANA JONES meets BARBARELLA but it's so much more. By ignoring the comic book, Jaeckin has, ironically enough, preserved the graphic form on film. He is, after all (and first and foremost) a fashion photography so his arrogance of story structure leads to the best eye candy you'll see in a long while. Sequences from this film may have resembled Jodorowsky's aborted Dune project had it ever have been made! Sure the first half is pretty slow but it leads into the strangest and most mind-blowing balm-pottery ever to hit celluloid, as Gwendoline and her pals go on a mission to find a rare butterfly, her missing father and a lost civilisation. The city of Yik-Yak itself is some of the best visualisation I've ever seen, not unlike an S+M party in a salt mine. Forget the acting (PLEASE forget the acting) just sit back, listen to the vaguely Michael Nyman-esquire score and watch the mind-blowing images unfold. Otherwise, just pretend you're watching TINTIN: THE MOVIE, as rendered by Peter Greenaway.

A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle. That's pretty much all you have to know of the plot, which is mainly an excuse to show off scads of beautiful naked women, gorgeous Filipino scenery, some almost competent action scenes, and Tawny Kitaen. That about covers it. Director Just Jaeckin apparently put a fair chunk of the tons of money he made off his "Emanuelle" movies into this one, and it shows; the film doesn't look cheap, at least, and Jaeckin's photography shows off the film's best assets--including Tawny Kitaen's--to their best advantage. Go at it with the right attitude and this film can be a lot of fun.

Moronic sex-adventure-comedy with a disconnected script that takes you from one place to another following no logic or pattern, and a certain undeniably trashy imagination (a four-way fighting match between women wearing heavy-yet-revealing armors). Tawny Kitaen is beautiful, but she can't act worth a damn. Check out Monique Gabrielle's work in "Deathstalker II" to see how a "deliberately" bad yet lively performance is supposed to be done in this kind of film. (*1/2)