Temptation Island (1981) phillipenes

[lester1/2jr]

    one thing fans of asian cinema  noticed when the shaw brothers back catalog was released was the plethora of romantic comedies, musicals and other non kung fu or horror movies that were released and generally not exported at the same time, often starring many of your faovrite martial arts stars.  This is not a shaw brothers movie and is from the philippenes rather than Hong Kong, but it has that same vibe.  on the plus side, it doesn't use the tedious sets that mark every shaw production, they actually use the outdoors (probably because there is alot more space in the philippenes than Hong Kong) .  On the minus side,  this is several levels down from even the most low grade shaw comedy and in fact it's best selling point is how embarassingly amateurish it is in terms of the acting, script, and in general everything. 








              A Bunch of beauty queens, they are quite pretty, and some hunks and a gay guy get washed up overboard on a cruise and have Swept Away type hardships and so forth on a desert island.   let me describe an earlier scene that really captures the feel of the movie: 

     A cartoonish paris hilton type rich girl is sunbathing poolside.  her cartoonish maid comes over and dutifully starts putting sun tan lotion on her.  on her lower neck and chest.  pretty hot right?  wrong, it's ridiculous.  she keeps rubbing it over and over it actually starts to look painfull.  then a helicopter comes and drops thousands of fliers in this girls backyard, she picks one up and it's for a beauty contest.  her yard is covered in thousands of fliers.  Either the Philippenes have some strange customs or this movie is just ridiculous.

    Also features the patented "phillipinglish"  half native tongue half english talking.  like when they first get to the island they will say a bunch of things in tagalog and then at the end the gay guy Joseph goes "it's a good place for a camel ride" .  it's like "what?" . 

dialogue (stolen from another site):

Suzanne: (after bumping Bambi on purpose) Sorry ha, di kita napansin.

Bambi: Bakit? Nalula ka ba sa aking towering height? It must be your failing eyesight.

Suzanne: Excuse me! 20-20 yata ang vision ko!

Bambi: Ay sorry ha, I thought it is your bustline. So it must have been my fault after all, b***h!

Suzanne: Double b***h!

Joshua (the flamboyant gay organizer): Rub-a-dub-dub, two b***hes in a tub!

     I don't know what the audience for this is, but I know I'm part of it reluctantly.  There are certainly far more salacious and titilating sexploitation movies out there and far better comedies.  I mean, it would take loger than the movies 1:40 running time to catalog all the silliness.  This is no doubt doomed to obscurity.  Another winner from the Phillipennes!



some clips/ review

[WingedSerpent]

So that's where Fox got the idea.  They even stole the name.

[lester1/2jr]

FOX will probably just buy the philippenes anyway