3/10
For what it's worth....
28 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
If you want to see a sort of 'remake' of this film, albeit in about 6 minutes, go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0pF7HlZ9cU

where the Aunty Jack team over-dubbed it for Australian audiences, around 1971. The plot and name are changed a bit: "Herco the Magnificent", where Herco Barbuto is fighting his evil brother Euripides for the name of their father's fruit shop, Barbuto's Fruitarama. Some great lines: "You reckon Herco can grow a better apple? Well clap your eyes on that!" "Bring on the surfies!" "It's a bone china beer mug!" (Shirl's father's skull) "She must have a gut like a gorilla." As Euripides is stabbed by Shirl: "I've heard of pinning the tail on the donkey, but this is ridiculous." As he falls dead to the floor: "Never could hold his grog."

This style of 'remake' pre-dated the work of Double Take by about a decade. Double Take would take a forgettable film and re-dub it in its entirely, live in the cinema. They would draw attention to the gaffes and continuity errors.

There is a place for poor (and even awful) films, but it may not be the one that the original makers intended.
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