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Wild Women of Wongo

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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Despite being a camp classic, this film often drags. The premise is simple: two tribes, Goona and Wongo, inhabit an island. The women of Wongo are beautiful, while the men are ugly (by which I mean average looking), while, predictably, the women of Goona are ugly (really ugly; one of them looks like Divine on a bad day) and the men are handsome. This paves the road for great conflict, but also paves the way for long boring stretches of canoe paddling and stupid subversive plotting.

The film opens with amusing credits done in a cave painting motif, and notes that one of the star Wongo women, Wana, is "Adrienne Bourbeau" (Barbeau) in a very early role. The other Wongo women get monikers like "Omoo" and "Ahtee." The central fixture of Wongo life is worshipping a "dragon god" which is actually a small alligator. (This was filmed at various tourist traps in Florida.) Women go talk to the alligator, and then interpret the alligator's instructions for the tribal leaders in between frolicking in their authentically native sundresses and bikinis.

This film has loads of filler, and manages to get boring at an alarming pace. Also frequently featured is a highly annoying parrot that mostly squawks, but also encourages the women to wrestle each other (with much hair pulling.)

Of course a man from Goona shows up and the Wongo women swoon while the men plan to kill him. The women foil their efforts in one of the least plausible screen moments in history. Trivia buffs please note that as the Goona man makes his escape (by canoe) the background music is the exact same music as used during the "resurrection of the dead" scene in Ed Wood's infamous "Plan Nine From Outer Space!" This is a welcome break from the rest of the soundtrack, which is highly bassoon intensive.

I would have given this film two stars, but there is one scene that earns it another: the "sacrifice dance" scene, which features the Wongo women writhing about led by a Queen in an alligator headdress. I have not laughed quite so hard in a while.

As the film winds down we see a woman wrestling a small alligator for what seems like an hour, followed by a call-and-response sacrifice ceremony reminiscent of the loyalty vows in "The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman." This leads ultimately to a unique fight scene featuring men with clubs against women with spears against an alligator. (The alligator wins.)

Of course everyone knows how this is going to work out: the ugly men and women pair up, and the attractive men and women pair up. This leads to much rejoicing, mostly from the audience, because their 72-minute nightmare is finally over.

This is fun viewing once for strictly camp value, but most people wont need to see it any more than that.

I love this movie! Yes, it's stooopid. However, by watching this tale unfold, we know the makers of this film were well aware of it's ineptitude! It's all for fun. Story?? Well, the men of Wongo are goons, while the women are beautiful. The men of nearby Goona are surfer-dude beach-types, and the women are "ugly" (which means they're fairly normal looking). Wongo refuses to help Goona to defeat an army of apemen (guys with white paint on their faces). Events occur which force the Wongans to seek out the Goonans, which gets the "ugly" guys 'n' gals together! The women of Wongo strike out on their own, capturing the Goonan men by surprise, and a good time is had by all! Watch for the annoying parrot, the 3' alligator attack, and the Wongo-babes' dance of doom! WWOW Belongs on every DVD shelf, if for no other reason than to make other schlock-addicts drool...

This is a great campy classic about a tribe of beautiful women on the tropical island who then discover a tribe of handsome men on the other side of the island and face jealousy from a tribe of not so handsome men.It's a must see!!

I got this as one of the "50 SciFi Classics" in the $11.99 collection of that name. Boy, what a stinker! Why was it made? Who were these people? Did money exchange hands?

Favorite part: When the comely star, Jean Hankshaw (you remember her from...uh..."Wild Women of Wongo"), wrestles the dead aligator for an interminable amount of time before she realizes it is dead. Well, not exactly but close enough.

I'm trying to resist buying the Mystery Science Theater (Film Crew) version of this movie since I couldn't help noticing what a great mark it would have been for those guys and darned if they haven't done it.

I think I must have lost my sense of humor, because this movie was just bad. The dance of the women for the dragon god became unendurable, and I was tempted to fast forward through it. The fight between one of the women and a four foot long alligator was too protracted to have any tension. I did think the fact that the alligator started to swim after release was interesting.

There are supposedly three groups of people in this movie. There are the people of Goona, where the men are handsome and the women are homely. There are the people of Wongo where the women are beautiful and the men are ugly. Lastly, there are the ape men who may be invading Goona.

After the hot women of Wongo anger their god, their men send the women off to the temple of the dragon god, which is a large alligator. The women soon encounter the handsome men of Goona, who have been sent weaponless into the woods as part of a trial, and being the wild women that they are, they capture all the men to be their personal playthings. In the meantime, the men of Wongo appear to have disappeared, perhaps done away with by the ape men.

The absolute worst part of this movie is the predictable ending, which I will not reveal in any detail in the event you decide to watch this turkey.

This movie has it all; bad acting, bad plot, bad dialog, and bad props. I thought I saw colorful shorts under the loin cloth of one of the men. The women appeared to be wearing swim suits under their outfits, or perhaps tights. I did enjoy the blue hair of one of the male leaders of Wongo. The leader anticipated a trend.

I thought this movie might serve as fodder for bad jokes. However, either I was uninspired or this movie is just too insipid to be joke material. In any case, this movie fails to take off in any meaningful way, so I recommend you avoid this movie for something with more quality, like "Blood Tide." Good luck!

Laugh out loud no-brainer. Just sit back and prepare to be thouroughly amused. This movie is not meant to do anything by entertain us, so don't expect any sort of psychological revelation. And watch out for that BIG woman from the other village, or you'll dump your popcorn!

The only intelligent animal in the movie, a colorful parrot, narrates this simple story of love, lust, and bedrail. The main pair of wild women looks like white trash in leopard skin and black. They dislike their uggy local tribe's men and may just have to hogtie some men from another tribe from the south. They swim in a large croc pot, or legume of crocodiles, tempting the croc gods like leggy snacks.

Bad acting and stilted duffus dialog do a comedy not make. It is a croc.

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The Wild Women Of Wongo is has to be the wildest B-movie ever made. The film is about two perhistoric tribes, the Wongo and the Goona, the women of Wongo are beautiful and stunning and the men of wongo are mean, ugly bullies. While the men of Goona are handsome and charming and the women of Goona are unsightly, hateful hags. The film has some intense moments like the the leader of the Wongo women wrestling a live aligator, but it also has some funny moments as well, like the Wongo men and the Goona women falling in love with each other. My favorite part of the film is the frenzied dance sequence between the Wongo women and the high priestess. This is the kind of movie that should be aired on Sci-Fi late at night.

I believe my father, Whitey Hart was superb and I am glad tosee I can purchase a copy of it for all his children.

You're probably thinking sexploitation film. Think again. Women who were "wild" back in those days apparently meant women who were independant, thought for themselves, and could survive on their own, as well as make independant decisions regarding their sexuality.

Yippee skippy.

Three stars only because this movie is pure entertainment value, unintentional it may be. Definately check out the dancing scene with all the women, which looks more like collective spaz attacks. And look for the drawn-out fight between a gator and the head woman. At first it was kind of sexy. Two hours later it was just boring. Yeah I know, it's an hour and a half film - don't ask me how they did it.

Ah yes, before I forget, definately look out for the sequal to this film: "Women of Wongo Gone Wild."