Movie director, Luce Habit (Rula Lenzka) needs a leading man for her latest epic. She discovers Ray Fay (Robin Askwith), drugs him (!), and whisks him away from London to Lazanga. With her all-female crew, Luce is all set for filming.
Native troubles, the entrance of the titular beast, and general idiocy ensue.
QUEEN KONG is -obviously- a British parody of its male counterpart. For a comedy, it suffers from a dire lack of any real humor. It's peppered with antiquated, anything-but-funny "jokes" that couldn't possibly have elicited laughs, even in 1976! It's sort of like a really long, completely awful episode of The Benny Hill Show.
Yes, there are bikini-clad dancing girls.
This could possibly be the most inane, eye-gouging-ly dull movie to ever come out of the UK!
In addition to the "monster" of the title we also get a woman-eating rose bush, and a man in a cardboard dinosaur costume.
For his part, Askwith seems to be having a blast, like he does in all of his movies. His Mick Jagger / Brian Jones-hybrid look and goofy persona are always likeable. It's just not enough to salvage this saggy saga.
Good luck with this bowl of rotten bananas!...
Native troubles, the entrance of the titular beast, and general idiocy ensue.
QUEEN KONG is -obviously- a British parody of its male counterpart. For a comedy, it suffers from a dire lack of any real humor. It's peppered with antiquated, anything-but-funny "jokes" that couldn't possibly have elicited laughs, even in 1976! It's sort of like a really long, completely awful episode of The Benny Hill Show.
Yes, there are bikini-clad dancing girls.
This could possibly be the most inane, eye-gouging-ly dull movie to ever come out of the UK!
In addition to the "monster" of the title we also get a woman-eating rose bush, and a man in a cardboard dinosaur costume.
For his part, Askwith seems to be having a blast, like he does in all of his movies. His Mick Jagger / Brian Jones-hybrid look and goofy persona are always likeable. It's just not enough to salvage this saggy saga.
Good luck with this bowl of rotten bananas!...