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Director- Hector Olivera
In a happy little forest village, a bunch of happy forest people are celebrating the wedding of the prince, Argan and Princess Amathea, the rulers of the peaceful grass hut hippie village. While the princesses sister is off gathering flowers, she is kidnapped and the village is raided by leather hat wearing thugs who kill a bunch of them and take the rest prisoner. What they don’t do is take care of Amathea, who swears revenge, brandishing her overly heavy visibly dull sword. She soon discovers several other female members of her hippie village who have escaped. They team up and canoe off into the sunset. Actually, they the go to an outpost fort of the bad guys and throw down a sickly inept raid. At the fort, the leather hat guys who are holding Amathea’s sister get easily “defeated”, and the ladies journey toward anti-climax continues. Soon, they run into a group of dissidents led by a one-eyed, one-armed flaming purple-clad rebel leader, and his boyish and criminally dubbed daughter. The rebel gang, it turns out, maintains a hideout underneath the city/castle from which the evil leather hat guys rule their kingdom. Alas Amathea, against the advice of rebel leader, spontaneously feels the need to free Argan who is being held captive and slated to fight as a gladiator. Of course she is caught, and has to show her boobies to the weasely dungeon keeper before she can escape and join up with the galvanized rebel band, and obstinate gladiators (while we were ogling they joined forces). No! Just as they are about to begin their revolt a bunch of the gladiators betray them! But hey! No sweat, Argan and Amathea manage to pull it off anyway, and in a one minute battle free the entire kingdom by killing all 10 soldiers who garrison the Styrofoam castle. Truly obnoxious and serves really only as a vehicle for Lana Clarkson’s breasts (also appearing in Deathstalker). Really quite slapsticky and half-assed plot and acting. Despite what might be misconstrued as mild accidental feminism in making a barbarian film centered on women, one can find only sad reinforcement of female stereotypes. The participants are clearly uninterested in trying. They ain’t getting payed to try, it’s just a titty vehicle, and even then, it ain’t so hot.
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