Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Santo vs the Martian Invasion (1967)

To keep my theme of watching only the most high brow of movies intact, I watched a Mexican wrestler movie, starring El Santo, idol of the masses, himself.
The Martians are finally fed up with us - war, the atomic bomb, bad music and whatnot. The only solution: to pacify our planet and unite mankind under a peaceful world government. The obvious way to do this: attack Mexico with a mighty army of eight. And if one is already here, one could do worse than collect a few especially high evolved specimens for ones intergalactic zoo the betterment of the human race.
There is only one (okay, personally, I can see probably one or ten more) problem with this plan: Mexican national hero El Santo is the most perfect specimen of them all, and knows how to use an auto-destruct-lever.





This is both one of the silliest and most entertaining adventures of everyone's favorite wrestler, charmingly naive and just very, very entertaining.

Darlings of the Day:
"We now return control of your television set to you."

"Why do we frighten them, when our bodies are more perfectly evolved than their own?"
"It is all in the mind..."

"Because of their extraordinary intelligence, they emit ultra high frequency vibrations in moments of great emotion or tension."

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