Tawny Kitaen must have been a lot less cooperative an ingenue than Sylvia Kristel had been for director Just Jaekin. His adaptation of John Willie's Sweet Gwendoline adult comic lacks any real erotic content and ends up little more than a cheesy pulp adventure with a little skin. The acting is as awful as any school play and not helped by casual Euro dubbing.
The story sees Gwen and gal-pal Beth arriving in China to search for Gwen's butterfly-collecting father. They cling to skipper Willard, a man so singularly mean, sarcastic, and uncooperative that the girls' action are bizarre. Together, they traipse thru jungle and desert to the fabled Amazonian land of Yik Yak.
The location work is pretty admirable, but the studio sets at the end are the cheesiest you'll ever see. You may not notice at first because of the distracting presence of many lovely women in metal bikinis, but by then you'll know that nothing really sexy is going to happen. There is only one love scene in the film, and Kitaen wears a cloak the whole time! The rest of the film contains nothing more than a few random breasts, and the last act features many strangely industrial bondage setups that aren't really used to any advantage (except, perhaps, the pony girl chariot race). It's all a terrible waste, since the girls are lovely (tho not busty) and the erotic possibilities of Asian girls, jungle love, and Amazonian warriors are endless, but again and again it's obvious that Kitaen refused to do more than flash the camera.
The story sees Gwen and gal-pal Beth arriving in China to search for Gwen's butterfly-collecting father. They cling to skipper Willard, a man so singularly mean, sarcastic, and uncooperative that the girls' action are bizarre. Together, they traipse thru jungle and desert to the fabled Amazonian land of Yik Yak.
The location work is pretty admirable, but the studio sets at the end are the cheesiest you'll ever see. You may not notice at first because of the distracting presence of many lovely women in metal bikinis, but by then you'll know that nothing really sexy is going to happen. There is only one love scene in the film, and Kitaen wears a cloak the whole time! The rest of the film contains nothing more than a few random breasts, and the last act features many strangely industrial bondage setups that aren't really used to any advantage (except, perhaps, the pony girl chariot race). It's all a terrible waste, since the girls are lovely (tho not busty) and the erotic possibilities of Asian girls, jungle love, and Amazonian warriors are endless, but again and again it's obvious that Kitaen refused to do more than flash the camera.