Customer Reviews
MST3K forever... 
2008-08-10
Sadly they're not making anymore and I will only have the four out of them. The skits where lacking to bots, but the ribs in the movies where spot on!
Aussies Beware! 
2008-05-18
This is one of those occasions where the U.S. "sense of humour" just doesn't translate. This movie, even with the Film Crew audio track, just sucks - plain and simple. It's dreadful!
Run away! Run away!
The Wild Wild Women of Wongo 
2008-04-29
The Film Crew consists of three alumni of the great movie-mocking TV show, MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. The premise for this project is not that Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett are trapped in an orbiting satellite; instead, they're three lowly employees at a DVD distributor, charged by their boss to create a commentary track for every movie they release, no matter how obscure or painful.
WILD WOMEN OF WONGO is the third film to be subjected to the mocking of The Film Crew. And once again, the producers have found a movie that is more than silly enough for their purposes.
The movie is set in prehistoric times. Wongo is a tribe populated by ugly men and beautiful women (although their beauty is obvious, their wildness of the title is not). They are contacted by a prince from the neighboring tribe of Goona who warns that their shared geographical region is shortly to be threatened by a strange race of violent ape-men. Although the two tribes are within spitting distance, the populations know virtually nothing about each other, and it turns out that Goona is home to very handsome men and extremely unattractive women. If you can't already figure out where that particular subplot is headed, then you may be the only person to be surprised at the film's conclusion.
Judging by the various plot summaries available on the web, one might expect a lot of cheesy battles between regular film extras and film extras in monkey suits. Unfortunately, the ape-men plot point is more of a MacGuffin than anything else. We're only ever treated to one ape-men attack. And we only ever see two ape-men. And it turns out that they aren't really ape-men at all; they look exactly the same as everyone else in the cast.
WONGO is the type of film where it isn't clear what age group the producers are aiming for. If you were a teenager watching this film you would think the storyline so simplistic as to be aimed at someone half your age. But if your parents walked into the room, they'd tell you that you're too young to watch a film with such scantily clad models.
Of course, the real reason one is purchasing this DVD is not for the lameness of the feature presentation, but for the mocking commentary track provided by the comedians. And here I felt a little let down in comparison to the previous two films in the series. There are many very funny jokes; I fell about the place in laughter whenever they noted the similarity one actor had to a specific cartoon character. But overall, the riffing never fully engaged me, and many times I was simply overwhelmed by the boredom of the film. There are quality gags sprinkled in the mix, but there isn't the driving force of jokes -- jokes that build and build on each other, keeping the laughter going -- that one finds with the best of MST3k.
Although this was my least favorite of the first three Film Crew releases, I'm not going to say that it isn't worth a look. Even sub-par material from Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett is better than most of what's out there. I wouldn't start my Film Crew journey here, but if you've already seen the other DVDs and are looking for more, then you should be happy with this.
DANCE! 
2008-04-26
The MST3K crew hasn't lost one bit of their talent at insulting the worst films ever. And "Wild Women of Wongo" is one of the worst. The acting is high school quality and the sets appear to just be someone's backyard in Florida. And the priestess's "dancing" scene is the most spastic thing since Mr. B Natural.
The Film Crew's comments are some of the best I've heard since MST3K went off the air. If you loved that show, then get this. If you've never heard of Mike/Joel and the Bots, still get this. The Film Crew is insanely funny.
Horrid Movie, great riffing 2008-03-31
Wild Women of Wongo is a stupid, stupid movie. Fortunately Bill, Mike and Kevin save us with their non-stop riffs. I wasn't that fond of the final skit, I thought it was one of the worst from the film crew's tenure. However, I just stop the movie before the final segment. 4/5
A Missing Episodes From Season 10? 2008-03-04
WILD WOMEN OF WONGO is an amusing B-movie from 1959. The plot follows both the voluptuous females and homely males who live together on the fertile island of Wongo and the handsome men and unattractive women who reside on the nearby island of Goona. Here the Film Crew team--Mike Nelson Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett--offer some wry commentary as the film plays.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 826663103779 Manufacturer No: SF10377
Honestly, I Didn't Even Miss "The Bots"... 2008-01-27
Well, maybe just a little "bot"... But I sure as shine-ola didn't miss the rarely amusing or even tolerable "intermission" sketches with their evil captors, "Dr. Clayton Forrester" and especially his always annoying and ever putrid replacement, "Pearl"! This new format is leaner, meaner, and a whole lot funnier, (to me!), than the "Sci-fi" schtick I'd enjoyed for a little while, but which got really tired, (to me!), by the time Joel split. And a perfect example of my point made herein is on this dvd as a "bonus" feature. I dare any and every MST3k loyalist not to at least give up a chuckle at the "Crew" members individual "choreography" as they are commanded to "DANCE-DANCE-DANCE!" And so, in conclusion, "The Film Crew" was equally as much fun, (to me!), and this was a nice way to catch up with some old friends that are still "FUNNY-FUNNY-FUNNY!" - S->
The guys haven't lost a step... 2008-01-20
This was the first "Film Crew" DVD I've seen, and I was highly satisfied. Mike, Bill and Kevin haven't lost a single step since their days on the Satellite of Love, making with the funny just as much as they did back in the day. And boy, did they have their work cut out for them... this movie was ATROCIOUS. Stupid, sexist, superficial and lots of other negative adjectives beginning with "S" all apply to this clunker. With the exception of the skinny-dipping scene (yowza) there isn't a frame of film here that would be viewable to a sentient lifeform without the Crew there cracking jokes. This was a lot of fun to watch.
Lame movie, decent riffing, a nice treat for MST fans 2007-11-10
I have a fondness for cult cinema, but not when it is intentionally "campy" in the way "Wild Women" tries to be. Very few film makers can pull off "intentional" camp. Camp (and kitsch) are usually something that happen to a movie in spite of the earnest efforts of the creators, not something a movie can aim for, and frankly, "WWOW" stinks on ice. The least harsh adjective I could come up with for it is "genial". I wouldn't waste a moment's thought on it as a standalone film.But Mike, Kevin and Bill had chose it as the third selection in their comeback as "The Film Crew". So I was more than happy to support their new series with my hard earned dollars.
The riffing is...pretty good. Without the entire "Bad Brains" writing team to supplement their efforts, without the goofy robot personas to hide behind and the wild science fiction framing devices that made the the MST enterprise seem somehow larger than life, the Film Crew commentary just doesn't have quite the zip and freewheeling madness of MST at its peak. It's basically just a bunch of guys making dryly witty remarks off camera. Even the "bumpers" are scaled way down...instead of an intro, 4 or 5 skits and movie or pop culture parodies, the summary segment and the "stinger", we get a very mild intro, a "lunch break", a concluding segment and a "bonus extra". None of those segments look like they took more than 5 minutes to come up with and film. The net effect is like switching from a steakhouse dinner to an Arby's value meal...it's a decent product, but it's just not the same,
Still, this is Mike, Bill and Kevin doing what they do better than anyone else I can think of. It's close enough to the original to be enjoyable, and the crew does get off some good ones. I enjoyed this release a lot, and will await further releases with anticipation.
Dance! Dance! Dance! 2007-11-01
Even if I didn't "know" ahead of time this would be hilarious, I would have picked it up for the title alone: Wild Women of Wongo. Come on, now that's funny!
Not only will the movie make you hate parrots, it will make you wonder how the filmmakers equated dying an actor's hair blue with portraying them to be "old." There was so much about this movie to ridicule, I don't know how they were even able to begin. The skits and extras continue to get funnier as more titles are released - it's obvious they are hitting their stride and figuring out exactly what works and what doesn't. And I really enjoyed the mysterious disappearance of the Mother Nature voiceover and Kevin's version of the world.
Looking forward to more releases from the Film Crew (maybe some Hercules, Gamera or more Peter Graves???).
