Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)
A wonderfully absurd spoof on Heart of Darkness / Apocalypse Now that's a delight from beginning to end. The plot is nuts, as an example i'll just put it out there that i didn't realise there was an Avocado jungle just outside San Bernadino , California, that was home to a tribe of Piranha women who sacrifice and eat men.
Yet it's all done so well, the three main actors - Shannon Tweed, Bill Maher and Karen Mistal - have a ball as does Adrienne Barbeau (in the Brando role) as Dr. Kurtz, who went out in to the Avocado Jungle and was never seen again.
The film references pop culture galore, from Indiana Jones and Star Wars to Disneyland and even Kurosawa, as the film keeps the blend of tongue in cheek humour and clever satire to the fore throughout and unlike the majority of films of this ilk, never loses the plot or substitutes action for layered humour unlike for example the Police Academy films which can't seem to maintain the satire and laughs when the action packed finales kick in.
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