Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

imdbwhoresfordisney Indeed this is not a masterpiece, but which sequel is? After all, each and every sequel, prequel, remake and reboot is made for the sole purpose of getting the suckers to pay up for the privilege of watching an inferior product. What does surprise is that Gor I had enough of an audience to warrant a second go-around.With all of that said, I enjoyed Gor II. Firstly, I love the fantasy aspects of films with swords and dragons. There were no dragons here, but there were plenty of swords, fighting and intrigue. Moreover, I am a man and therefore happily pay to see women who are thin, flaunting, have long hair, etc. Gor II had sweet eye candy all over the place. In fact, I thought the slave girl was hawt (sorry fat ladies, it is what it is). Astoundingly, in an act of Christian fidelity, our hero refuses the quick in-n-out owing to the fact that he is in love with another woman (and of course the other woman is super slender so worth it).Throw in the a dwarf (aha!), palace, catfight and sand dunes and this was well worth my time.

Aaron1375 I cannot fathom that the first Gor film was profitable enough to warrant a sequel. Sure, there were some pretty bad B movies back in the day getting sequel after sequel; however, I had at least heard of said films. I had never heard of Gor or Gor II in my youth. No, I only heard of this one after 2010 when I was looking through a list of films that Mystery Science Theater has riffed and that is how I first saw this sequel. I also saw parts of the first one, as this one recaps the previous adventures of Cabot the most bland sword and sorcery hero I have ever witnessed! Forget any Conan the Barbarian comparisons, this guy is worse than Ator or even Yor the hunter from the future who sort of lives in the past, but not really! I cannot think of a single 'hero' from a film of this type that falls as short as this guy does, and I am not just talking the character, I am talking about the actor who depicts him too. Guy is a nobody and obviously cannot fight as they had to use a stunt double for him during the 'climatic' battle scene against two rotund individuals who would only be threatening in real life at an all you can eat buffet. The only real actor of note in this one is a very angry looking Jack Palance who so obviously does not want to be in this film, but probably needed a check and thought a trip to Italy would be nice! The story has Cabot returning to the world of Gor, a world that is behind our times, but has some magic and lots of 80's looking women with big hair. That is one of the things I have to give this film credit for, it has some very attractive 80's girls in it showing cleavage and in some instances oiled up! Well, after his name is mentioned a ton of times, Cabot finds himself in the middle of a set up where a priest uses the king's trophy wife to take control of the kingdom, at least that is what he seems to be doing at first. Later, it seems more like the priest is the queen's puppet and that the priest is the more reasonable, who knows, it probably is a good book, but the movie is not. Cabot wanders the desert with his small friend sidekick and gets offers of pleasure all over the place before everyone rejoices as the defenseless queen is skewered. Bravo guys, imprisoning a woman with no weapons or powers would have been too hard.This made for a rather funny episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as the jokes were fast and furious. Though most of the best jokes came during Cabot and friend first coming to the city and then Cabot and little friend escaping through the desert. I loved their jokes making fun of the badly dubbed little person's voice. Still, this film had more to offer as far as riffs that they seemed to miss, like the the queen being killed in kind of brutal fashion when she could have been simply taken captive. For the most part some funny stuff.So you get to see Jack Palance as some wizard type dude who seems to be pulling the strings and is not. An annoying sidekick that is thankfully tucked away for awhile and replaced by a small version of Edgar Winter. A vegetarian hero who really does not do all that much heroic stuff, but has great restraint when it comes to resisting girls who wish to give him pleasure and lots of cleavage! Also, lots of male buttocks shots for the ladies! There is something for everyone in this film! Just not a very well done story. Does not really have that great of action scenes either. The actors and actresses are bland too. Okay, so cleavage and buttocks are about it. Welcome to the magical world of Gor, where there really is not much magic beyond the ability of its people to bring a mediocre man from Earth to help them sort out their problems!

nikkk-1 The only reason I actually sat through this entire movie is because I happened to be an extra in it and was curious to see myself on the big screen. They shot some of the scenes in South Africa, in and around an old mine dump just outside my home town (Benoni). As poor students, my buddy and I thought it would be a fun way to make extra money being extras in movies during vacations, and it kinda was. We made a load of spare cash too, since the movie makers were exploiting the currency exchange rate at the time and paid pretty well (for us at the time anyway).Anyway, the movie was laughable, and even during filming I could tell that it was going to be. If you ever happen to see this movie, there is a fight scene where the hero kills his attacker with a big (wooden) sword by clearly stabbing the ground next to his chest. Do I need to say more?

cal-33 No, not really. Possibly the most disturbing "buffalo shot" in cinematic history (the poor dwarf in the bearskin diaper bares all as he climbs down a building face.) Obviously I've only seen the MST version, but even that was hard going. It made for quite a funny episode, though. If it ever comes out on home video, check it out. Just avert your eyes when you see the dangling dwarf. ..