good back-story, and good acting

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I have been watching terrible movies for a while and to be honest, this movie was loads of fun and was immediately saved by one scene. I won't go into details about this scene but it is quite magical when you watch it. Pumaman is a Terrible excuse as a movie, Terrible camera quality, Bad dubbing and terrible effects. But it also has elements that makes a good-bad film. It has that one Laugh-out-loud scene that makes the movie an instant classic for people like me. It is very obvious that the budget was really low, but I never thought that it could look this awful. It is really an achievement. This movie actually reminds me of the terrible movie call "Manos, the hands of fate". It looks like crap, was dubbed a lot and was really boring except a couple scenes. I actually prefer this movie to manos though. It's pacing is a bit better, There isn't awkward music over the whole movie. It's awful but watchable. It has some classic moments that really save it from being one of the worst movies ever. I give it a 2 because the 1 rating should be reserved for the least entertaining and terrible movies.

So bad in a good way. Never a dull moment. Well revived by MST3K. One of the funniest episodes. Too many good quotes. It felt like a spoof for superhero movies. The hypnosis of the girl at the beginning felt a little creepy. The villain was like a bond villain. What else can I say really? watch it you won't regret it unlike some of the movies in IMDb bottom 100. Having said all those good things about this movie you would wonder if it deserves to be in the bottom 100. The answer is yes but i'm really tempted to say no. However I may have lost my objectivity as I watched worse movies than this and got used to this kind of thing.

As someone who made a point out of watching bad movies, then when I couldn't stomach it anymore, watched hundreds of reviews of bad movies, this is not a movie deserving of a rating that can be compared with the likes of "the Girl With the Gold Boots" or "Son of the Mask." Is it poorly made on a technical level? No doubt, but not on the level of the movies it's thrown in with.For one, this movie is actually cohesive. It's stupid, but it can be followed rather easily. The Aztec gods put a godchild and a golden mask on Earth, centuries pass, a bad guy finds the mask and uses it to try and take over the world, "epic" battle ensues to some kick-ass disco music.Does Pumaman actually fit the implications of his name? No. Does he do anything? Not without complaining, but yes, he does dumb superhero things. Which is more than can be said for the other 70's superhero movie that just so happened to be tied to a Marvel License... Captain America.That is why I think this movie is actually quite good. It has energy. Things happen. The things that are unintentionally funny (the whole movie) are that pure sort of funny, not that cringe inducing, embarrassing kind of funny. It is all around a joy to watch.And yes, the MST3K version is the way to go

As I've said before, you've just got to love those wacky Italians and some of their wacky cinematic "achievements". The Puma Man (or The Pumaman as the title card indicates) tells the story of Professor Tony Farms (Walter George Alton) who reluctantly accepts his superhero birthright. A direct descendant of extraterrestrials, he is given the power of the puma (Until I watched this movie, I had no idea that pumas could fly? Who knew?) so that he might defend the secrets of the Aztecs. One of those secrets, a golden mask that grants its possessor the power of mind control, has been stolen by the evil Kobras (Donald Pleasance). With his Aztec guide Vadinho (Miguel Angel Fuentes), The Puma Man must put a stop to Kobras' plans of world domination.It might be screwy, but I can't help but enjoy parts of The Puma Man. The movie comes across like a twisted, no-budget mix of Superman and the U.S. television series "The Greatest American Hero". From the superhero costume that includes brown slacks straight off the rack at Sears to the poorly done rear projection special effects to the repetitive (but admittedly catchy) Casio keyboard soundtrack to the Christmas ornament-like space ship, it's obvious that the budget on The Puma Man was less that what I spent on dinner last night. But the odd thing is, regardless of how cheap looking most of the movie is, it's got a charm to it that money can't buy. And while that doesn't necessarily make The Puma Man a great movie or anything, on occasion the movie overcomes its many faults (or it might be because of these faults) and is often quite fun. The acting isn't much to write home about. Pleasance proves he could be a scene-chewer without equal. His insistence on pronouncing "puma" as "pyuma" is hysterical. Our would-be hero, Alton, is generally ineffectual. The female lead, played by Sydne Rome, while reasonably attractive, doesn't display much in the way of acting skills either. Still, given the material they're given to work with, the entire cast is serviceable. But probably the best thing I can say about The Puma Man is that it's not dull. In fact, it's well paced and generally entertaining throughout its runtime. And as I've argued so many times, entertainment is the single most important thing to me when watching movies.Compared with most everyone else on IMDb, my rating for The Puma Man sticks out like a sore thumb. Maybe I enjoy it for all the wrong reasons, but whatever it is, I do enjoy it.