Santo vs Blue Demon in Atlantis

SANTO VS BLUE DEMON EN LA ATLANTIDA The legendary mexican wrestling icons El Santo,the silver masked man and his friend/wrestling partner Blue Demon were my childhood heroes. I watched their films, read their comicbooks and read about their ring battles in wrestling magazines like "Lucha Libre".This movie I am reviewing is one I had never watched before,but that I remembered its tv trailers and at that time wanted to watched it badly at the movie theaters, but couldn't since I missed the release date at my local movie theater (at that time movies played like for a few days at only one or two movie houses per town, then it moved to another town. There was no such thing as multiple screens, or simultaneous widereleases). When it premiered on tv I couldn't watched it either since that night I got grounded and my relatives wanted to watch their telenovela instead. Well, yesterday I finally watched it. Like all the mexican wrestling movies it was a grade Z production, badly acted, badly written, horrendous editing and in general an awful film. But is the kind of film that is so bad is good fun. Like a train wreck even though is such a calamity, but you just can't take your eyes off it. In the first place the title is misleading: there is no Atlantis here. The closest thing to it is that the evil scientist named Achilles has his lair in a cave that you can only enter it by scuba diving (even though in all the underwater scenes you can plainly notice that the the surface is just two feet up! oh they use over and over again stock footage of sharks in surroundings that doesn't match the location they are diving). Come to think about it...if their lair was in an underwater cave...how did they had cars and helicopters to chase El Santo?:tick: Well the plot is about this evil rejuvenated scientist Achilles threatening the nations of the world with total destruction (by launching nuclear weapons from a secret base on the moon...stock footage from "Conquest of Space" and a few japanese scifi films). Only agent X21 (El Santo) knows the location of another scientist who can stop Achilles plan. The bad guys hypnotized Blue Demon via a disco ball :say:so he can defeat el Santo. Along the way there are lots of fist fights, car chases, helicopters duels, babes seducing el Santo and enough cheesy stuff to make this turkey palatable. The first wrestling match between el Santo & Blue Demon is neat. The music is plain anoying and repetitive. I grade it realistically 2/10, but for the ridiculous fun factor I give it a 7.

 

He made over 60 movies. As well as all the Chuck Norris movies they suck, but they are fun.:Thumbs: