The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak

1984 [FRENCH]

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 35%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 35% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 3687 3.7K

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Plot summary

A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.

Director

Just Jaeckin Photo
Just Jaeckin

Top cast

Vernon Dobtcheff Photo
Vernon Dobtcheff
Bernadette Lafont Photo
Bernadette Lafont as The Queen
Tawny Kitaen Photo
Tawny Kitaen as Gwendoline
Cornélia Wilms Photo
Cornélia Wilms as (as Cornelia Wilms)
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960.77 MB
1280*544
French 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 2
1.93 GB
1920*816
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by christopher-underwood 5 / 10

John Willie this certainly is not

Gwendoline began life within the pages of John Willie's Bizarre magazine which had a somewhat clandestine existence in the late 40s. The character appeared again in the magazine Wink in 1947 in a serial drawn by Willie and called Sweet Gwendoline. The artist/photographer and his work existed within a twilight world with high heels, bondage, extreme curves the order of the day and a rather shadowy but surprisingly substantial fan base. These days the whole BDSM scene has taken over much of this territory but somewhere the 'schoolboy/boy scout' fantasy element with young ladies bound to trees in the jungle has gone. I guess that old true Brit explorer notion has been replaced with a more high tech version in chrome and shiny black PVC. In any event Just Jaeckin's vague attempt to capture something of the flavour of those old pencil drawn fantasies seems more like cashing in on the name rather than any serious attempt to explore those murky but delightful waters. The script is awful and the early native village, jungle and desert scenes pretty bad and if the later sequences are enlivened by attractive and minimal costumes. John Willie this certainly is not.
Reviewed by kosmasp 6 / 10

The adventures of ... Gwendoline

Well not just her, but her two friends. Although you may argue how much of a friendship she has with the other two members of her ... "crew". Well one of them is her love interest - and let me tell you something: he treats her like ... well not how one should treat another individual. But because of his looks and I reckon the charme his character has, she still can't help herself falling in love with him.Now you may have already deducted, that this may very well be able to offend your sensibilities. And it does not really care - nudity and cliches go hand in hand. Add some interesting action scenes and some costumes that are way out there (or down there) ... that it is able to either be one of the funnest rides you have or one of the worst. Again depending on your sensiblities and I am not telling you how to feel or what is right or wrong here.An oddity that is quite entertaining for those able to suspend their disbelief.
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