| Action / Adventure | MPAA:R |
Lot's of films are based on comic strips and books. The Mask was originally a comic. So was Batman, Superman, The Peanuts, and Brenda Starr (no, I don't have that one, even I have some standards). Also based on a comic is The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak.
I have never seen this comic. I know, because if I had seen a comic with scores of topless Amazons running around jiggling, I would have remembered it. This movie's main purpose, and consequently it's main saving grace, is to show us Tawney Kitaen's breasts (such as they are). It certainly isn't to impress us with her acting. Or with Brent Huff's acting, he's the handsome (?) hunk who leads her into the land of the Yik Yak, along with her ladies maid, played by someone named Zabou (..what the heck kind of name is Zabou? Sounds like she should be running around with Jonny Quest and Hajji, having torrid threesomes with Race and Jonny's dad, etc..). She's on a Quest (and under a Bannon? (never mind, you'll get it later)) for a butterfly that Gwendoline's father had staked his entire professional butterflying career on. On the way they're caught without water in a Tropical rain forest, during a tropical rain storm no less. This gives Tawney & Zabou a chance to bare themselves; so they can use their clothes to catch water (of course). Then they're captured by savages, who don't take off anybody's clothes, but give us a chance to hear Brent give Tawney his version of a 1-900 call while they're tied to the floor of the cage. Then they leave the rain forest and go right into a desert, (let me emphasize this point, there is no grassland fading into a desert, there's trees, then there's sand, poof!) where they find the Amazons' cave, and in order for them to fit in, the girls have to strip down again (when in Rome, as they say). Anyway, to make a long story short (too late... ed.), Zabou gets captured, stripped down and tied up in some bizarre torture room, Tawney (who also gets to wear all sorts of neato keen disco bondage gear in this film) and Brent get captured trying to rescue her. Tawney and Zabou escape. Tawney gets involved in a gladiatorial contest to earn the right to mate with Brent. After they copulate (she has an awful lot of fun for someone who hasn't done it before I might add), she's supposed to kill him (large cheer), but doesn't (darn!), they escape, the cave collapses, and Brent shows up with a butterfly in a cage. Yes, the same butterfly that started them into this Guccionesqe nightmare in the first place.
Nobody in this film acts great, and only Zabou (what a name) gives a tolerable performance. Tawney should have been shot after making this, Brent Huff should have been shot before, and the Mad Amazon Queen seems to have suffered from a really, REALLY, bad overdub job. Also, can you say 'Gratuitous Nudity'? I knew you could. I have some dumb movies, and this one is extremely dumb, fortunately short, and at points, quite silly.