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My friends and I were stumbling around watching the TV, and we happened to hit Cinemax. Travis Jesperson was like, "Leave it on!" So we did. Jesus Christ. We almost killed ourselves half way through. My 3-year-old cousin could have made a better movie with his toy camcorder. I swear one girl was a man. She had a mustache, a masculine body, and huge ..... Can you say plastic surgery? The female on female scenes needed a lot of work. If you like ... licking, this ones for you. The music was blatantly stolen from Mortal Kombat, and the sound effects from Doom 2. If you had to kill yourself or watch this movie and live...i suggest you grab the gun.
Wow, I mean, there arent enough words in the english language to describe the absolute agony we went through watching this movie. Do not buy it.
Please!
Therefore we agree with the earlier poster--0 stars, or negative 5 stars, if possible.
Thanks...

When someone buys a title such as this, I would assume that they mostly want to see beautiful women without clothes, um, er, ...performing for the camera. Everything else is distraction. Now this film is very funny and actually better than that horrible re-make that Tim Burton directed. But back to my opening statement: Misty Mundae and Raquel Darrien are fantastic. Especially Misty, who has an extremely pretty face and smooth skin. However, all of the other women are lousy looking! Enhanced breasts abound. One poor woman has so much work that she is a caricature of a caricature; her breasts and lips are seeming to burst with excessive implanting and injecting. So my advice to Seduction is to get better looking women! (except for Raquel, Misty and Katie Jordan - who doesn't appear in this flick) I think they are quite eager and common if the price is right. And please no more enhanced breasts...there are plenty of beautiful natural ones affixed to women who are quite happy in showing them off on celluloid....

John Bacchus's Playmate of the Apes is priceless. Full of silly humor, camp, and beautiful actresses galore, this film is sure to please fans of many genres.

It's the distant future. After awaking from a long hyper-sleep aboard their space shuttle, three beautiful astronauts, Commander Gaylor (Seduction Cinema's poster girl Misty Mundae), Lt. Fornication (newcomer Sharon Engert), and Lt. Pushkintucushkin (adult internet star Anoushka) accidentally push a wrong button and crash land on a mysterious planet. After trudging through the hot desert/forest, the trio discover that the planet is ruled by human-hating apes. The apes are convinced that humans have no soul, as the few humans that also populate their planet cannot talk or dance. Soon we meet many colorful characters: General Lade (John Bacchus), the leader of the apes who fuels the hatred of the humans, Dr. Cornholeus (Debbie Rochon), an ape doctor who is convinced that humans are not as bad as everyone thinks, and Uvula (Seduction star Darian Caine), one of the planet's curious and naive native humans who takes a liking to the astronauts. Many problems erupt, as the human astronauts cause confusion among the ape population, since they can talk, etc., which negates the notion that all humans are soulless creatures. Soon, it becomes a battle of wits, strength, and erotic charm as the astronauts try to help the native humans regain their dignity while also trying to repair their ship and return home.

Playmate of the Apes is Seduction Cinema's biggest and most prolific stab at the erotic spoof genre so far. There is a large cast, great monkey make-up, many computer generated effects, and a good, cohesive story. The three leads (Mundae, Engert, and Anoushka) do a good job at playing their fish-out-of-water roles, and know how to deliver the humorous lines. Just watch the scene in which Misty Mundae apes the famous line from the original and frantically shrieks, "This place is a madhouse! A MADHOUSE!!" and try not to laugh. The parody really works.

There are many more good things I could say about this film, but it would just be best to see it for yourself. It's funny, erotic, and very entertaining.

The Special Edition DVD presents the film in it's original full-frame aspect ratio. Special Features are abundant. They include:
*Interviews with Misty Mundae, Debbie Rochon, and Darian Caine
*A wonderful behind-the-scenes segment
*Sexy, intimate interviews with Anoushka and Sharon Engert
*music video for "We're the Humans" (a parody of the Monkee's theme song)
*numerous trailers for this and other Seduction Cinema films

Great movie, great DVD...director John Bacchus continues to impress.

**HIGHLY RECOMMENDED**

I bought back in 1992 the vhs edition of this collection I found it very good. So this year when I saw the dvd I bought it thinking that I could find differences but nothing!.
This dvd is the same as the vhs, there's absolutely nothing new, they didn't add different versions of some videos or put special features.
I can't also understand why when this collection was made the producers didn't put the original videos of "Typical male" and "We dont need another hero" or why doesn't appears the video of "Way of the world" wich was a Top 3 hit single in the U.K and Europe.
The videos for "Typical male" and "We don't need another hero" are taken from her 1991 video "Do you want some action-live in Barcelona". Tina's strengh on this videos is amazing but this is a video collection so they should have added both versions for the dvd. There's also one hit video missing from 1987 the Top 20 hit "Two peolple", so where's this video? nowhere because you can't even find it any more because the vhs is out of stock.There're some other fantastic moments taken on video as the duet that she made with Bryan Adams or some of her Vegas shows that are not here.
How ever Tina is wonderful and I hope that Capitol or Virgin releases a new dvd as Tina and we her fans deserve.
One more thing, there're some great videos that are out of stock now and could be re-released. The tittles are: "Wild lady of rock" (1979), "Private dancer tour" (1985), "Break every rule" (1986), "What you see is what you get" (1987) and "Whats' love live" (1993). I strongly recommend the first and the last, if you can find them somewhere get them.

Please update this release with her later hits. That she changed labels in the US after 1991, doesn't matter. Virgin is part of the EMI group just as Capitol is. Tina has recorded for EMI since the early seventies. EMI should do some more effort for there compilations.

I was not disappointed in the dvd because I had seen the VHS version. I agree that they should have had the original videos instead of the live versions. It is possible that the original video of "We Don't Need Another Hero" may not have been used due to the copyright since it did incorporate scenes from the film "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome". They might not have obtained the rights to use the video version. As far as the videos from the 90's, Tina switched labels after the "Simply the Best" CD came out. Therefore those videos could not have been added to this collection.

This was the reamke of a French original. Goldwyn wanted his Garbo(SIGRID GURIE) to do it... Sigrid later said that they all pitied Hedy Lamarr because she was thought to be a common girl after her nude footage in the film Exctasy 1933. MGM`s Mayer indeed was not sure of Lamarr was good enough for the MGM family and borrowed her to Walter Wanger.
As it turned out; Lamarr became a sensation, Gurie NOT! However, Lamarr did many a film but only the 1949 SAMSON AND DALILAH was an equal hit a`la ALGIERS.

ALGIERS had a poor print on video, but even on DVD the print is much 2 muddy. It is a shame, because it has an authentic feel... Indeed - when producing CASABLANCA, they hoped they coild achieve something like ALGIERS. However, faith was not kind and CASABLANCA is the eternal classic. If u want 2 c Sigrid do a good performance, check out THREE FACES WEST with John Wayne and THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO with Gary Cooper.

That one sure is a great film, not so much in the action or the exotic description of the Casbah of Algiers, but in the impotence of Parisian policemen to get a criminal who has found refuge in this Casbah, in the patience and the certainty of the Algerian policeman who knows the criminal will fall sooner or later, in the method used by this Algerian policeman to trap the criminal out of the Casbah. Just use the simplest trap ever : a Parisian woman who is going to fascinate him in and out of his Casbah. The refuge then becomes a prison. The woman then becomes the bait used by the Algerian policeman. The criminal's girlfriend becomes the informer of the Algerian policeman, and this is not a crime since he is Algerian and not French and since she is preventing her lover from falling into the arms of what has to be a trap or some bait and not a prize. And then, when taken and handcuffed, he will have to get himself shot in the back by some French policeman, under the unmoved and unmoving eye of the Algerian policeman to escape the prison that is awaiting him in Paris. Hence it is the story of a refuge turned into a prison, of an affair turned into a trap and of an arrest turned into an escape. Pepe le Moko is the best after all and no one can ever trap him and put him or keep him in any kind of jail.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

This film is very intelligent. I liked the plot and the dialog was very good, witty and clever.I loved the shadow and light in the casbah. I think this film was perfect for black and white. Mysterious,hidden and devious is what the color and Casbah portray, following the lines of the story. Boyer is so perfect in his role as Pepe Le Moko, jewel thief, hiding in the Casbah so as not to get arrested and extradited to his hometown, Paris, France. How he misses his home but if he goes out of the Casbah he is sure to get captured. He meets the beautiful and regal Hedy Lamarr, honest and forthright. She represents his home and he falls in love. One scene really got the emotions down pat, it showed Boyer going crazy from being trapped in the Casbah, the drums beating, the furor of his trapped feeling, you can see the panic mounting in him. This really was a wonderful movie! They based the cartoon character of Pepe Le Pue on Pepe Le Moko. Ending was also quite original and different. Some of the film is old and may cut out sometimes but still I didn't care this was a really great movie! I long to visit the Casbah!!
Lisa Nary

Well well well......maybe its just that I have never had the chance to experience a JA gig in the flesh that I was relying so heavily on this DVD to give me something of the sheer umimaginable ......but I can't for the love of ????? find a lot to praise it. the rare moments of musicality which any fan craves in something like this are edited in such a way to make you furious....I mean come on WE WANT TO HEAR THE WHOLE SONG !!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T STOP IN THE MIDDLE AND WANDER OFF SOMEPLACE ELSE ..... JESUS CHRIST !!!!!!! and the documentary style .....it all smacks of amateur .....

As a European I missed out on Jane's addiction 'till the release of 1990's Rutual CD. I catched the band on their now legendary European 1990 tour and again on their return to Europe in early 1991. These tours stood the test of time and bring back great memories to some of the finest concerts i have ever seen.

October 2003 12 years later and jane's Addiction returns to Europe and all expectations are lived up to, the band is in top form, their album STRAYS is a fine, more commercial but still definitely true Jane's style, new album and the audience in Amsterdam went bezerk!

How happy was I to finally see this documentary being released on DVd to still my jane's hunger after the shows in Europe. Unfortuantely the Relapse tour was a far stretch from the superb new tour. While Flea might be a great bass player for the Chilli's he isn't for Jane's. For different matters the tour is like a circus act and doesn't capture the essence of Jane's Addiction. While some interviews give a great insight in the band and their members the performances don't have the quality they had in de haydays and on their current tour.

I suggest everyone spend their money on tickets for their current tour or any of their cd's. Jane's Addiction is a great band but should leave documentaries to others and strictly release CD's (a live DVD, maybe?) and play excellent shows like the ones I saw recently!

Other reviewers have complained about the video not living up to the "hype". Well thank god I never heard any of that hype because my expectations must have been lower and thus I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I went to the show in Las Vegas at the Alladin theater and was happy to see footage of that show included. Much like Soul Kiss and the Gift, this video is demented and all over the map. It's much less a movie and much more a highlight reel of the Relapse Tour.

There is not a lot of official Jane's paraphernalia out there so for the real Jane's fan this is a must. Drop the expectations, sit back and enjoy this one with some fine wine and it's sure to bring peace to your mind.

From the perspective of someone who has a much higher appreciation of CYF's action film history than CYF's romantic-comedy/drama history, this film is a winner. People are right when they accuse it of "genre hopping." One minute a bloody gunfight will lead into some corny cop jokes. Then some supernatural acts will lead into a love story which is then followed by quirky Asian comedy. Some might chafe at the thought of such a stew, but it does work.

So, if you already have A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled, City On Fire, Full Contact, City War, etc. and are looking to branch out into CYF's less-action more-light fare, this would be a great first stop. Also, check out CYF in Once A Thief, another film light on the bloodshed, but still interesting enough to own.

The versatile Chow Yun Fat once again shows that he's capable of delivering action, comedy and romance in one character. I was pleasantly suprpised at the extent to which this movie is entertaining. It is now a part of my collection.

This movie isn't a perfect blend of action, comedy, drama and romance, but it still works despite it's slightly too uneven mix. (Thus, I actually give this four and a half stars, but the rating bar doesn't allow halves.)
Chow Yun Fat is a gorgeously charismatic scene stealer whether being a killer, comedian or gushing romantic.

Dear Viewer from Manhattan. "The Leech Woman" with Colleen Gray (also Grant Williams and Gloria Talbot) was the film you saw. In it she plays a woman with a wish to grow younger and finds the answer in the necks of young men! She uses a ring with a sharp point to puncture (I think) the spinal cord and drink the fluid. In "The Wasp Woman" Susan Cabot finds the answer to youth by injecting wasp enzymes into her blood stream thus making her beautiful by day and not so beautiful by night! Yikes! Some film stores say "The Wasp Woman" was released in 1960 but actually was released in 1959.

I was too young to see "The Leech Woman" in 1959/'60 at the theater but I saw it on tv in the late 60s or early 70s, I think it was, and I loved it! I saw "The Wasp Woman," in the late '60s, on TV as well.

Ok, slipstream back almost a half century ago. A coupla boys (me an Donnie) each plunk down our quarters at the Aggieville Campus Theater and enter into the forbidden world of cinema. First stop: the concession stand where I choose the usual Mike & Ike jellys (it was a game to see what flavor you put in your mouth by the shape but really they mostly tasted the same). Donnie (died in 1969 from leukimia) always chose malted milk balls because he knew I hated them. Next stop: the drinking fountains, one for adults and one for kids. I wonder how many chipped teeth was the result of us kids trying to jump up and to hang on just to look grown up to our peers, not to mention getting a good face washing. Third stop: right next to the drinking fountains was an Art Deco statue of a naked lady. Full sized as I recall, black granite carved. I knew I wanted it but not sure why, perhaps it was her smile when she looked at me. Last stop: Wasp Woman, the movie. I was young and the memory fades into the unsure since. But if this "Wasp Woman" movie is about a woman killing people with a special ring and then drinking their blood to achieve youth let me tell you it scared the beejeesus out of me. This movie and "Invaders From Mars" was the reason I was a bedwetter.

THE WASP WOMAN, ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1959, IS A CLASSIC CAMP HORROR FILM.
IT'S PLOT AND ACTING WERE VERY GOOD.
THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE JUST LIKE MANY OTHER FILMS OF IT'S TIME, FOR EXAMPLE, THE FLY, WITH VINCENT PRICE.
VERY TAME BY TODAY'S STANDARDS, BUT FOR SOME GOOD CLASSIC HORROR ENTERTAINMENT, CHECK THIS ONE OUT!!
IT'S VERY GOOD!!

I caught this movie on cable after seeing "Audition" (which I liked) in the theatre. That Miike is a gifted director, pipin- full of potential, there can be no doubt. Nice sets, nice camera-work, nice techinical work. But there can also be no doubt that this movie is so full of hookum as to make the ghosts of Japanese screenwriters past weep. As eye candy, the movie does have a certain charm. As anything else, pass. The characters are set pieces with dialogue; the plot has the clairity of pea soup. The only reason I gave it two stars is that any Japanese movie featuring a Brazillian element offers interest, sociologically speaking. I'm curious to see if there will be more entries into the Japanese-Brazillian catagory, given the current state of Japanese immigration.
My advice: Go rent (or buy) "Tears of the Black Tiger." It's Thai, not Japanese, but that (gory) action movie has the heart that this movie lacks.

This film was made by Takashi Miike, one of Japan's newest avant-garde directors (also known for using enormous amounts of violence and gore in his films). This film is one of his tamer offerings, and pays homage to the classic noir and Hong Kong action films. The story is about Mario, a Japanese-Brazilian immigrant and his Chinese girlfriend Kei, who become involved with a heist only end up with a shipment of cocaine instead of cash. The two have to escape the country while evading the Yakuza and Chinese gangs seeking the stolen drugs. The film is rather unique with its perspective of multicultural Japan and Miike's trademark craziness featuring midgets brushing their teeth with cocaine, a hilarious Matrix spoof using cockfighting and death by ping pong.

Beautiful Kei, crazy Mario, fearless Fushimi. This is one of my all-time favorites. Forget that the movie has no intricate plot, that the characters do not engage in didactic dialogue, that the film is not laden with themes. This movie entertains in the style of "True Romance", "Natural Born Killers", and "Pulp Fiction". Miike focuses on what he does best, delivering a tireless film with
incredible cinematography. Although there is no apparent attraction between Kei and Mario (they more or less share scenes as good cop/bad cop partners), moments of their acting brings humor to their insanity: Kei's facial expressions after she lights the Russian's face with a mouthful of vodka; Mario psyching himself up on the street as he goes to rescue Carla and Kei.
This film has some great stunts and artistic flair. The fighting chickens, of course. Mario and Kei jumping from a helicopter with no parachutes. Mario jumping out of a window with Carla to land on his back on top of a car. The blood shed between Mario and Fushimi during their shootout that spells the word "Love".
I would have liked to have seen more of the love between Mario and Kei. She is extremely beautiful; I find it hard to believe Mario is always so restrained around her. Not even a kiss on their wedding day. Still, a great film, and the only place I've seen a crowd of people brushing their teeth with cocaine for a fix.

I've always pretty much liked the Ernest movies. Yes, they are silly and whatnot but they were always funny and I can't think of another actor who can make such funny faces. Unfortunately, in this one the budget was seemed to have been kept to a maximum of about 200 bucks. It's very low budget and it was dissappointing to see Ernest in something so stupid.
The story was cheesy, flimsy, and stupid. The actors (excluding Ernest himself) were horrible, and it was altogether just cheesy. Ernest also wasn't very funny in this one at all. His co-star, that dumb waitress who goes along with Ernest to Africa was so mean and stupid I just wanted to slap her across the face. Anyways, there's not much to say about this movie except if you want some real Ernest, I'd suggest "Ernest goes to Jail","Ernest Scared Stupid", or "Ernest goes to school."

One of the series' best finds Ernest in love and on the run from jewel thieves in Africa. It's great to see Ernest in such an exotic setting.

In this film, Ernest wants a date with Renee, the waitress at a local diner. She considers herself to deserve more than this Mr. Nobody. At the advice of the other waitress, Ernest tries to win Renee's heart with a gift. Unfortunately, while shopping for the gift, he gets mixed up in a jewel theft involving stolen African treasure. That lands both Renee and Ernest in Africa, where they must try to evade capture by competing teams of jewel thieves. While in Africa, Ernest gets to try out an extended scene with the old lady in the green dress, and he does a masterful job as an Indian swami.

The first time I saw this movie, I thought it lacked continuity. I found it somewhat strange to see Indians, Arabs, and Brits mixed in with the African characters, and I thought that Varney had gotten his geography thoroughly confused this time. I also found the stereotypes that he was playing with a bit offensive- -many of the characters certainly aren't politically correct. However, after seeing the film again after living years in the Middle East, I can now recognize the characters easily, and they are incredibly realistic and very funny indeed. Varney must have spent some time in East Africa before making this film. While he was there, he no doubt visited an Arabic palace in Zanzibar, had some run-ins with Indian servants and British hunters, and met some friendly tribesmen who taught him some key phrases in a Bantu language. Unlike some of Ernest's more kid-centered movies, this film doesn't have a moral theme. It's just Ernest on safari.

I did this dvd last summer for a month and saw some results but I hurt my back severely. I hated pilates and gave up but now I really like Crunch pick your spot pilates and yoga tapes.
Ana Caban and KAren Voight tapes really aggravated my back. Be careful!

This video is a descent workout if you aren't really wanting pilates. However, I don't feel that it is a total body work out. It is more of a work out for your legs and abs.. It will leave your legs sore, but you need the pilates magic cirle in order to have any benefit from this video.
Also the ab and back set isn't much different from the total body set.
All in all it will give you a work out-just mot much for the upper body and not what I would consider pilates.

I bought this DVD along with the Kathy Smith: Pilates for the Lower Body DVD, and this one is a much better value for the money, giving two 50-minute workouts ... compared to Kathy Smith's one 1/2 hour workout ...Kathy Smith's video does give a better introduction to Pilates and working the "powerhouse" (abs pulled to the navel, pelvic floor pulled up, and gluts held in tight), though Karen's video does a better job of integrating these moves all together, with an emphasis on stretching and toning and an awareness of posture. I recommend renting Kathy's video to get the basics and so you can see how you can get away with not needing the resist-a-ring, and then using Karen's video to tone inner thighs and work the abs. There really isn't much of an upper body workout, though I like the workouts nonetheless. I think an intro to Pilates should be added, and agree that better chaptering to move to some of the sections that you like best could improve navigation. I also found that scanning backwards too quickly got me back to the first DVD menu and not to the start of the workout, which can cost precious minutes in a tight morning routine.

Oh, this is so bad. The second half of the movie should have just been left on the cutting room floor. The first half is interesting and looks like it will build up to a pretty good story. A mad scientist experiments on humans and insects. Since the female is superior in the insect world, his women are super strong babes. The men in his experiments are evil little dwarfs. So by injecting human female growth enzymes into spiders, we have giant tarantulas.

No doubt you've heard of the seductive and ultra sexy dance performed in the bar by Tandra Quinn . It is not over-exaggerated. For it's time it's probably the hottest bit of celluloid from that era. Clearly it is the high point of the movie.

Well, that's about it. A plane and its party are hi-jacked and are forced to land on the mesa top of the evil scientist's lab. From here on out it's a waste of time. The director was not trying to build suspense, he was trying to eat up film and time so this would be a movie and not a half hour Twilight Zone episode. The back and forth begins across the set begins!

The 'nurse' decides to explore in the dark by himself and is killed by a spider and screams.

After much ballyhoo and useless dialog, everyone decides to investigate. They walk across the set to the dead nurse. Then they head back.

The girl lost her hair band, bracelet, or whatever the heck it was, and the 'Man Friday' is sent to look for it. Of course he is working for the mad scientist and gets killed by him when he descends into the lab.

Now there is more walking around the set (Meanwhile we have a romance building up between the girl and the pilot). The girl's fiancée get's killed by a spider's stomach, and finally they make it down to the lab. OK let's see, the super strong female (who is immune to bullets by the way) is held easily by an ordinary girl. They escape and wrap up the film conveniently with an explosion (what else)? The film ends with a super girl on the side of the cliff, watching and waiting.

The worst part of the movie by far is the music (yes, it's worse than the not-so-special effects). It's this piano/guitar thing that just plays over and over and over and over.

Watch with caution, but don't expect much. When you say you'd rather watch Cat Women on the Moon instead of this, that's really saying something.

I'm too amazed. I watched this for the first time last night, or at least most of it before I fell asleep, and I'm thinking, jeez is this where David Lynch came from? (though I'm laughing as I think this), and then I read the review before me, and this other person had the same idea. It's dialectics, with a vengeance. The super self-conscious hip on the one extreme and the scrapings from the cutting room floor on the other turn out to be the same thing...the wierd dance of the lost hot babe in the cantina is the clear proto of Dennis Hopper doing Roy Orbison...etc etc. Too much...

Mesa Of Lost Women is one of my favorite hunks of cheese! Jackie Coogan (yep, uncle Fester) is a mad scientist, working with petuitary gland transplants. He's successfully transplanted tarantula glands into human women (it doesn't work on men, only turns them into evil dwarves), turning them into mute amazons with extremely tacky wigs. Another scientist visits Dr. Fester and sees the horrible experiments. He refuses to help, so the head spider-woman "Taran-Tella" (Tandra Quinn) injects him with a serum that seems to make him bonkers. The good doctor ends up in the nuthouse, only to escape out a window. Anyway, he seeks revenge on Taran-Tella and shoots her (after she is allowed to dance in a saloon, causing hearts to race). The vengeful, nutty doctor then forces a pilot (Allan Nixon) to take him back to the mesa. Lots of spider-women and dwarves roam around aimlessly. A giant, stuffed tarantula flops onto a hapless victim or two, and fun is had by all. The ending is no surprise, but I'll not spoil it here. The soundtrack is hideous!! A flamenco guitar twangs along, accompanied by piano work best described as being played by a hammer-handed baboon on acid! Highly recommended...