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5/10
gave me the level of entertainment I expected of it, witty dialog
desertboat30 January 2007
The DVD box that I have has a blurb about the worlds worst gorilla suit, but that's easily out-done by Tarz's dumb wig. But the dumb wig and the ape suit do set the tone of this unlicensed literary character spoof!

It's director Hans Johnsons only film, while Tarz, Patrick Wright is a well known face, the wig disguise didn't work, from TV's Dukes of Hazzard show to film, several early Russ Meyer products. He worked regularly with Jane, Tally Cochrane. She had staring roles in Joe Sarno's Erotic Young Fanny Hill and Sassy Sue. Georgina Spelvin must have been signed for her name, ha, as her role was rather sedate for a well known porn star in mid-career. Boy is anything but, appearing to be in mid 20's.

Being a long time fan of rumble in the jungle films, I had to give it a swing and it gave me the level of entertainment I expected. Witty dialog, corny puns and semi-interesting T & A. And sometimes the scenes actuality seem to be in a jungle, of sorts!
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8/10
A total raunchy hoot
Woodyanders12 July 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The flimsy plot for this uproariously breezy'n'cheesy porno dazzler has poor Tarzan (cheerfully overplayed by prolific 70's drive-in picture perennial Patrick Wright, who sports a really obvious fake wig), depicted here as an absolute feather-headed goofball who's all brawn and no brains, suffer a hilariously nasty run-in with a ravenous crocodile: the flesh-chomping lizard bites off Tarzan's manhood (ouch!) when Tarz wrestles the beast in a river. So Tarzan, his ditsy, oversexed distaff companion Jane (an endearingly daffy Tallie Cochrane, Wright's real-life wife), and their lunkhead son Boy (some vacuous California surfer dude type who calls himself Uncle Tom) embark on a perilous pilgrimage to Wango Wango Land in order to get Tarzan another penis. Prior to their Wango Wango journey Jane gets attacked by Tarzan's libidinous off-the-wall gorilla buddy Cheetah (a frantically mugging Sam Clemente Richard in your standard crappy, pudgy, not-believable-for-a-minute ape costume), who does just what you think with Jane. Tarzan and his companions also rescue aggressive explorer Wanda the Huntress (deftly essayed by the scorchingly hot and assertive 70's hardcore queen Georgina Spelvin of "The Devil in Miss Jones" fame) and her wimpy, effeminate gay assistant Clive from a savage tribe of coarse jive-talking African-American stereotypes. Everything ends well, with Tarzan getting jumped by both Wanda and Jane after acquiring a massive new phallus from a local witch doctor who performs a ridiculous spiritual dance for Tarzan.

This highly stupid, but often side-splitting tongue-in-cheek sex romp stands as a towering, often insanely funny, and always stupendously ludicrous celluloid monument to characteristically irreverent and uninhibited anything goes Me Decade silliness, boasting no less than two puerile disco songs by Alfie Smith, a suitably lowbrow sense of free and easy dirty humor that never comes close to being either remotely subtle or sophisticated, the guy in the frumpy ape suit doing an absurd Richard Nixon impersonation, unsparingly profane dialogue that's rife with inane double entendres, a marvelously politically incorrect caricature of mincing homosexuals, brazen broadside japes about urinating off the side of trees, castration, forced sodomy from a salacious simian, rape, incest, and corn cobs being used in a most bawdy way, and more sizzling copulation and bared flesh than you can shake a spear at. In other words, this movie overall rates as a whole lot of nice'n'naughty no-brainer fun.
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