Üç Süpermen Olimpiyatlarda

i don't know how to put it but there are certain things in life which we all would agree is to be unnecessarily absurd and almost surrealistically idiotic.

well, this movie is one of them. no significant plot, disruptive editing, awful sense of humor, snitched soundtrack, dreadful dubbing over Italian actors gives you a total Z-grade movie. dialogue doesn't make sense and low budget costumes/fx are disturbingly bad. in total its a shame that they were allowed to shoot this bulk at all.

as for those who took 80s cinema seriously, this film is the second installment in 'Supermen' series by Italian director italo martinegli. 3 guys in costume, with the time machine they stole in the first movie, goes back in time to ancient ephesus, olympics. to do what? no one knows. meanwhile, there is additional treachery, jumping over people, horses and columns going over. from ancient anatolia to unearthly creatures, it just loses it in a few minutes.

there is a big problem with the film, unlike its predecessor, it tries too hard to be funny. wordplay is lost in translation; mimics and gestures are out of sync. i believe lsd was still publicly available in turkey in 80s.

i give it 1 out of 10. just because there is no 0 or - in the system.

Random inserts of horse racing, a cardboard box robot with phallic weaponry, at least three seemingly unconnected story lines, Turkish Michael Palin in a double act with Turkish Robbie Coltrane, assorted masked villains and our titular heroes. Yes, this pretty much has everything you would expect from a Turkish low budget superhero flick.

What it doesn't have however, is very much at all to do with the Olympics, which is a shame, because the potential for extended Turkish training montages was what drew me to this film in the first place. Instead, we see our heroes (one of whom seems to have a smoking addiction!) perform a token javelin throw (a stick lobbed into trees), a shot putt (it takes two of them to pick up a small rock) and a high jump (at coffee table height), before apparently travelling backwards and forwards in time, aided by Turkish Fu Manchu.

It would probably be unfair of me to say that this film is an incoherent mess; after all, I watched it without the aid of English subtitles and I have not seen 'Three Supermen Against the Godfather' which this is the sequel to. But this movie is an incoherent mess.

But, like Turkish Star Wars, this had me laughing my head off and I recommend it to all lovers of bad movies and cinema from another world.