Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 4 out of 5
guys and gals--can’’t we just get along?
This film put the capital "C" in Camp. Never, for the entire length of the film, does the tongue disappear from the cheek. It’’s a great spoof, of course, on Conrad, and what followed from his "Heart of Darkness," but there’’s also the wonderfully anti-romantic re-enactment of the riverboat scene in "African Queen." Maher and Tweed are absolutely sterling in this highly anti-climactic re-enactment. There’’s no message here, but you’’ll enjoy the non-stop one-liners, and the "Beer, beer, beer" chapter will never leave your consciousness, no matter how hard you try...  Rated 1 out of 5
It’’s AWFUL.... I LOVED It!
This was by far the WORST movie I’’ve ever seen, including anything by Ed Wood! Boobs, women in leather skirts, bad puns, a leopard in a corn feild and Bill Mahr as Jim! A must-see. Really. Would I lie to you? Rated 5 out of 5!
Hilarious spoof - a classic B movie!
This is one of my all time favorite movies. It’’s a hilarious spoof on Heart of Darkness, and a B-movie all the way, down to the classically stereotyped characters and the low budget settings. It pokes fun at feminism, academia, and stereotypical gender roles.The basic plot line is that the whole eastern part of Southern California is a vast avocado jungle, inhabited by cannibalistic feminist "natives" who eat men with guacamole dip. The US government claims to want to protect the "free world’’s last avocado source" by retaking the avocado jungle. They recruit a feminist scholar from Spitzer College (actually set at UC Riverside) to make contact with the cannibal women. On her mission she takes along a stereotyped "girly" girl, Bunny (who wears all pink, takes a curling iron, and has fantasies about being tied up with red licorice) and a bigoted but bumbling male chauvinist. The result is a hilarious romp. Academic types will love all the academic jokes: "Your methodology is shabby!" I agree with the other reviewers that the picture and sound quality is not great. I’’ve personally never been able to find a high quality version of this movie. I think it just doesn’’t exist. This is not the Matrix or some other high budget DVD. In some ways, though, the sound and picture quality is kind of classic. It very much goes along with the whole "feel" of the movie. A B-movie through and through. Warning: there’’s a short scene with nudity at the beginning, for those who would be disturbed by this.
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