Santo contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida

Santo vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis

Mexico 1969
produced by
Jesús Sotomayor Martínez, Raúl Martínez Solares (executive) for Cinematográfica Sotomayor
directed by Julian Solér
starring Santo, Blue Demon (= Alejandro Moreno), Jorge Rado, Rafael Banquells, Agustín Martínez Solares, Silvia Pasquel, Magda Giner, Juan Fava, Rosa Maria Pineiro, Griselda Mejia, Marcelo Villamil, Carlos Suárez, Juan Garza, Olga Guillot
written by Rafael García Travesi, Jesús Sotomayor Martínez, music by Gustavo César Carrión

El Santo, Blue Demon, El Santo and Blue Demon

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Surface level earth is threatened by Atlantis (which incidently sits just off the Pacific coast of Mexico), so some international security organisation sends all-around genius professor Gerard (Rafael Banquells) to Mexico to get in touch with the organisation's local top agent - who just happens to be championship wrestler Santo. Santo is presently in the midst of a match against his friend Blue Demon, but then Blue Demon is kidnapped by the Atlanteans halfway through the fight. Later though, Blue Demon returns and claims he has escaped Atlantis, but it soon becomes apparent he has been brainwashed by Atlantean leader Olvrich (Jorge Rado), a former Nazi out to create a new master race. Santo defeats Blue Demon when Blue Demon wants to kidnap him, but Blue Demon escapes.

Eventually, Santo is contacted by fellow agent X25 (Magda Giner), a beautiful blonde who tells him she knows to Atlantis and leads him there - but once in Atlantis, Santo is captured, and X25 turns out to be an Atlantean top agent. Santo is soon prepared for hypnosis ...

Professor Gerard readies his missile defense system to thwart an imminent Atlantean missile attack, when Santo shows up to crash his lab. Then another Santo shows up and kills the first Santo. Turns out the original Santo has been saved from hypnosis by Juno (Silvia Pasquel), an Atlantean girl with a conscience - which doesn't quite explain the fake Santo who crashed the lab, but never mind. Soon, Blue Demon shows up and starts a fight with Santo, but Santo defeats him again and then the professor puts him out of his hypnotic state. Now, Santo, Blue Demon, Juno and the professor all head to Atlantis to blow it up for good. Juno has to die her hero's death in the process, but other than that, everything ends happily - with a blast.

Ok, this film is stupid as hell, a cross of science fiction and espionage elements forced into the context of a Mexican wrestling movie, and its special effects, lifted from Japanese monster flicks like Atragon, Kaiju Monster Zero and Godzilla vs the Sea Monster, don't sit too well with the rest of the movie, stylistically - but that said, the film is also immense fun thanks to its nonsense plot, its low budget approach to a big budget topic, and its insistence on masked wrestlers to carry the story. Of course, that doesn't make this film an intellectual masterpiece of any kind, but a great party movie best watched with a couple of mates and a couple of beers.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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