The greatest movie ever made..!

Brilliant and touching

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

With a score that alternates between big band swing, boogie-woogie piano, Las Vegas-styled burlesque, and whimsical numbers a la "The Little Rascals," this is a film that does not take itself seriously. In fact, it is rife with humor—unfunny humor, alas. The screenplay is credited to seven writers, which never portends good things.COLOSSUS & THE AMAZON QUEEN follows Glaucus (Ed Fury), the strongest man in Greece (Suck it, Hercules!), and his sidekick Pirro (Rod Taylor), a fast-talking con man, as they take jobs aboard a cargo ship. When they arrive at their island destination, the men are drugged and abducted by Amazon warriors, who take them first as lovers, then as slaves. When Glaucus falls for Antiope (Dorian Gray, sans portrait), the Amazon Queen-in-Waiting, this angers her rival Melitta (Daniela Rocca), who plots her revenge.The movie's failed attempts at humor revolve mainly around slapstick that makes the Three Stooges look like Woody Allen. Pirro's manipulations are supposed to make us laugh at the gullibility of his dupes, but instead made me want to punch Pirro in the face. There's an Egyptian inventor named Sopho (Ignazio Leone) who is determined to free Glaucus and Pirro from their captivity. Using one of his inventions, the boomerang, Sopho accidentally whacks Glaucus in the head, knocking him unconscious while the muscleman single- handedly fights a platoon of Amazons. (Funny, huh?) Finally, we get light-in-the-sandals male slaves who are so accustomed to their captivity, they exchange recipes and complain about not getting their laundry "sparkly" enough. It's the kind of gay stereotype that went out of style in the '70s and today is just cringeworthy.OK, so the comedy falls on its face. Surely the action scenes make up for it? Uh, no. The action sequences are as contrived and unexciting as the humor is unfunny. Meanwhile, the Amazon warriors wear black spandex-type uniforms that look seriously out of place in the ancient world. Not to mention that the reigning queen, Regina, has lipstick on. In one scene, a skirt-wearing Amazon inadvertently provides a glimpse of her 20th-century panties.Do I even have to tell you the dubbing job sucks? They didn't even get Rod Taylor to dub his own damned character into English!The Italian "sword and sandals" films that thrived in the early '60s always veered perilously close to farce. It was redundant to make a movie poking fun at the genre. COLOSSUS & THE AMAZON QUEEN tries too hard to be funny and exciting; it ends up being neither.

This is absolutely the worst movie ever made, and not just in this genre. The actors look like props and act like robots. The dubbing is laughable and makes the Japanese movie dubbing appear to be most excellent.It is difficult to tell if this movie was intended as a comedy, or supposed to be an adventure movie, since the whole thing is laughable and it is hard to tell when the plot and acting is supposed to be funny, since all of it is ludicrous. The acting is so atrocious, that at times it becomes funny. This movie is/was most appropriate for fans of Mystery 3000 Theater, in which Crowe, and his companions sat watching as they ridiculed the film.This movie begs the question, 'Why was it made," and I can only surmise the producer and director were on hallucinogenic drugs. Nothing in this movie suggests that anyone had any idea why they made it. The whole thing is either like a bad nightmare, or, an LSD trip gone bad. If you like to sit and make fun of the movie with your friends, add your own comments.If you can get over the fact that this movie actually had a screen writer, a script, and nothing but idiots running around on the screen without the slightest clue on why they are being filmed, forget the bad colour, you may be able to stomach it.

This whacky sword and sandal epic from Italy makes the rounds in low-budget DVD collections (all from the same battered video dub of a 16mm print - Mill Creek's version has color correction). The plot's been described elsewhere, but for this viewer the flick's over-the-top acting and absurd music offered campish fun with a fast pace and some clever if dated takeoffs. Rod Taylor detested this movie, but his acting's fun, slap-stick-ish and done with style. Some plot elements are bizarre (one character using a complex apparatus to light a fire by activating it with a burning torch!!) but work if you remember film's for comedy and don't go into deep analysis mode. Some outdoor shots and dances in this film appear in other Italian Sword and Sandal movies (or possibly it was the other way around). Those wanting politically correct films should put this one back on the shelf and look elsewhere! Otherwise, ignore the politically incorrectness and have fun!

This is horrible.I've seen pretty much every muscle man movie made in the 1950's and 1960's and this is at the bottom of the list.First off the dubbing is terrible. The cliche of Japanese monster movies are nothing compared to this. Secondly its suppose to be a comedy. It appears to have been written and acted as one, unfortunately there is nothing funny about it. The problem is that these films run so close to parody as is that its pointless to make fun of them. The only one that ever worked was the original version of My Son The Hero, which was a good movie even without the humor.Lastly the sets, costumes, ect are overly bad. Again these films run the fine line between reality and parody. Its all of a style that took hold and effectively killed off the genre about five years after this was produced where spandex, beehive hairdos and Max Factor make-up made everything look silly.The plot, concerning two muscle men and their encounters with the Amazons is stupid and comes from the low sex comedies that rarely traveled outside of Italy because they were more juvenile than funny.Its over acted and under done.One out of ten. Its just bad.