Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Steineded How sad is this?

GazerRise Fantastic!

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Leofwine_draca I'll be the first to admit that I'm no big fan of superhero movies. Their inherent silliness never has appealed to me – and I'm not too hot on comics either. So I approached THE PUMA MAN with some trepidation, knowing it was probably going to be cheesy nonsense...but I honestly had no idea the film would be THIS bad. This isn't so-bad-it's-good in the way that a Turkish or Mexican superhero flick is. This is just plain nonsense, an appalling rip-off of SUPERMAN that makes no sense from beginning to end.Miscast Walter George Alton – a lawyer in real life, he sure ain't an actor – is the young, good looking, square jawed American hero. As the film progresses, he discovers that he's next in a long line of Puma Men, heroes with extraterrestrial powers who combat evil. Now, when I heard his name, I wrongly assumed that he'd have the power to turn into a puma, or perhaps to summon one to his side, a la Beastmaster. How wrong I was! Does he then have powers akin to a big cat, such as running at incredible speeds? Wrong again. It turns out that the Puma Man possesses super strength (a given) and has the ability to fly – just like Superman. So what on earth does that have to do with pumas? This is just one plot hole in a film absolutely chock full of them. Think too much and the story just falls apart, so it's best to watch this one with the brain switched off. The opening of the film sees the good and bad guys alike tossing random people out of windows to see whether they can fly – a method that reminded me of the tried-and-trusted 'witch dunking' method of the Middle Ages, where the witches that were innocent ended up drowning.The film has intermittent action sequences, including more than a few fist fights which are as tacky as those in the '60s BATMAN TV series, except unintentionally so. The special effects include more waxwork heads than you'll find at Madame Tussaud's, as well as some dodgy camera 'pulsing' effects which are often headache-inducing. The absolute nadir of the film are the many 'flying' sequences, utilising back projection, which are simply awful. It's a major problem because the film relies on them so heavily that they appear every few minutes or so.I'd lost interest long before the film finished, and even the presence of a hammy Donald Pleasence – so far from his HALLOWEEN glory days only two years before – fails to save things. Pleasence essentially reprises his Blofeld role from the James Bond movies, except dressed in a silly black outfit instead. And what's the Death Star doing in this film? George Lucas should have sued. The only other cast members of interest are a hulking henchman, played by Miguel Angel Fuentes, who looks and acts like a bad guy but is actually good, and Sydne Rome as the pretty but vacuous love interest. No matter how funny the concept might sound, in the end THE PUMA MAN is a piece of trash, and a non-entertaining one at that.

popcorninhell Thousands of years in the past, an alien visits Earth and becomes a God to the reverent Aztecs. The alien then fathers a son with cat-like reflexes and (inexplicably) the ability to fly. We then fast-forward to modern times where an Aztec ceremonial mask has been unearthed and allows the wearer mind-control abilities. Dr. Kobras (Donald Pleasence) wants to use the mask for evil purposes and wears it to create an army of mindless slaves. The only man who can stop him is Pumaman, the son of the original Aztec God now disguised as a mild-mannered paleontologist named Tony (Wlater George Alton).The Pumaman is a low-budget Italian action fantasy that quite frankly has no reason to exist. It's dubious production value, phoned-in acting and unfathomable storytelling leads one to believe that the film may have been created as a money-laundering scheme of some kind. Such ludicrous examples of filmmaking laziness includes using Greek ruins as an Aztec temple and hoping no one would notice, the villains inexplicable plan to flush out Pumaman by throwing random men off of constructions sites and extended flying sequences that likely inspired Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010).What's worse is, despite some inspired moments of sheer filmmaking stupidity, the film is ultimately too boring to even recommend as Z- grade midnight screening fodder. There's nothing tethering the separate, unequal parts of this film to a larger whole. It's all so put together at the last minute and too ugly to really look at for too long. In the words of one of the supporting characters, "You are the worst I have ever seen, but you are the Pumaman."

TroutPunchers . As someone who made a point out of watching bad movies, then when I couldn't stomach it anymore, watched hundreds of reviews of bad movies, this is not a movie deserving of a rating that can be compared with the likes of "the Girl With the Gold Boots" or "Son of the Mask." Is it poorly made on a technical level? No doubt, but not on the level of the movies it's thrown in with.For one, this movie is actually cohesive. It's stupid, but it can be followed rather easily. The Aztec gods put a godchild and a golden mask on Earth, centuries pass, a bad guy finds the mask and uses it to try and take over the world, "epic" battle ensues to some kick-ass disco music.Does Pumaman actually fit the implications of his name? No. Does he do anything? Not without complaining, but yes, he does dumb superhero things. Which is more than can be said for the other 70's superhero movie that just so happened to be tied to a Marvel License... Captain America.That is why I think this movie is actually quite good. It has energy. Things happen. The things that are unintentionally funny (the whole movie) are that pure sort of funny, not that cringe inducing, embarrassing kind of funny. It is all around a joy to watch.And yes, the MST3K version is the way to go

zxgerard In France, when a movie is so bad he becomes funny (unintentionally, it's important) we call it a "NANAR".And there's a real audience for this kind of movie (Ed Wood like). These movies are treasures because they become rare. Nowaday, the bad movies have at least decent SFX, decent editing, the directors have all followed a formation... But during the 60-70-80's absolute incompetent directors could make movies. So there is a bunch of them, but a limited bunch, and this one is famous.So if "Puma man" made me laugh and spent a good time, I must give more than 1 or 2 stars. And I must recommend it.My favorite quotes : Boss ! This man is FLYING like... Like ?.. ... like a PUMA !(Because, as everybody knows : the pumas fly.) LOL !;-))