Ein Käfer gibt Vollgas

Superbug, Super Agent

West Germany / Switzerland 1972
produced by
Rudolf Zehetgruber for Barbara, Coordinator
directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber
starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Rudolf Zehetgruber (as Robert Mark), Heidi Hansen, Kathrin Orginski, Karl-Otto Alberty, Hans Waldherr, Kurt Jaggberg, Heinz Reincke, Sergio Testori, Arthur Duarte
written by Rudolf Zehetgruber, music by Jürgen Elert, special effects by Karl Baumgartner, Willy Hoermandinger

Superbug

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Plato (Joachim Fuchsberger) is a gangster who has just been released from prison, and now crime kingpin the Marchese (Karl-Otto Alberti) and his men are after himbecause he's the only one who knows about the whereabouts of a certain printing plate to forge 5-Dollar bills with ... but in fact he's of course an Interpol agent who's after the Marchese and uses the printing plate merely as bait. Still, fighting the Marchese might just be too big a bite to swallow for him and Tamara (Heidi Hansen), a young blonde who has just come along to collect the reward money, as the villains soon win the upper hand.

Enter Jimmy Bondi (Rudolf Zehetgruber), agent of General Services, and his super Volkswagen Beetle Dudu - a computerized car programmed to beat up those who insult it -, who help Plato in his mission, and then there's also Magnolia (Kathrin Orginski), Bondi's boss, who has quite a few gadgets at her disposal that are indispensable when crimefighting ... and after various pseudo-comical fights and chases, our heroes can of course overcome the Marchese and his gang - but Jimmy Bondi and Dudu make a hasty escape after he remembers he has promised Magnolia to marry her ...

Lame comedy relief is provided by Hans Waldherr as strongman gangster who only wants to sleep and Kurt Jaggberg and Heinz Reincke as American Mafiosi.

Essentially, Superbug, Super Agent is a bad crime/action comedy that's about as subtle as the name of its lead character, Jimmy Bondi (for all those who didn't get it yet, yes this is supposed to be a parody of James Bond). So expect lame jokes, bad slapstick and underachieving special effects aplenty, and don't expect any big laughs (at least not where they are intended) ... but if you are (like me) a cultfilm masochist and trashfilm fan and have a softspot for bad 1970's entertainment, you simply have to see this one.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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