Frankie (Frank Gun), his wife Esther (Gabriella Vincze), and his best
friend Johnny (Zenza Raggi) are on an expedition to the wildest jungle of
Africa to find traces of Jenny (Selen), his relative who has gone missing
in the jungle when she still was a child. But first he has to find out
that his wife has an affair with Johnny, but upon catching them
red-handed, he just joins in for a threesome. Then he actually finds Jenny
riding on an elephant, and before you know it, they have sex - Jenny and
Frankie that is. Frankie decides to take Jenny back to his (and actually
her) native Scotland, much to the dismay of Esther, who soon shows her
jealousy by having sex with all of his friends. At first, Jenny doesn't
fit into Scotland's high society at all, but she soon has sex with
everybody in reach anyhow. And in the end, Frankie promises to take her
back eventually ... Of course, this is a hardcore porn flick,
so its emphasis is firmly on fucking, and believe me, there's plenty of it
in here. However, on a plot-level, this film at first looks promising, too
- after all, bringing a wild girl to civilization seems to be full of
possibilities, right? And for a time, the movie even tries, even if
director Joe D'Amato seems to be unable to capture the emotional and
comical aspects of some of the scenes (like Jenny's first dinner in
Scotland) and is not helped by the wooden acting of his cast. Then though,
D'Amato drops all pretense and just puts his characters into fuckscene
after fuckscene, all of which happen without narrative necessity. And
after approximately 100 minutes, the movie just ends without any actual
conclusion. When it comes to (plot-based) porn, One can't help but admit
that Joe D'Amato has made some pretty good films (like his somewhat
similarly themed Tarzan-film
Jungle Heat) but also delivered
his fair share of bombs. Queen of the Elephants certainly doesn't
rank among D'Amato's better films, but unlike some of his other XXX-stuff,
it at least shows promise.
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