Pumaman

1980 "An ancient gold mask with the power to control minds..."
Pumaman
2.3| 1h37m| en| More Info
Released: 14 February 1980 Released
Producted By: Cinema Shares International Distribution
Country: Italy
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Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands.

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ragpap93 So bad in a good way. Never a dull moment. Well revived by MST3K. One of the funniest episodes. Too many good quotes. It felt like a spoof for superhero movies. The hypnosis of the girl at the beginning felt a little creepy. The villain was like a bond villain. What else can I say really? watch it you won't regret it unlike some of the movies in IMDb bottom 100. Having said all those good things about this movie you would wonder if it deserves to be in the bottom 100. The answer is yes but i'm really tempted to say no. However I may have lost my objectivity as I watched worse movies than this and got used to this kind of thing.
jonathan_k80 If you have had the misfortune of seeing any of the live-action Saturday morning kids' shows from the 1970's (or if you were unfortunate enough to have grown up in that time period), then basically you have seen this movie.It's all been done before. A mysterious mystical guy is searching for the descendant of a long line of "Puma Men" to guide him in the ways of the puma, which include flying and a type of red-tinted psychic night-vision. This must be an educational film, as I did not know pumas could fly. He finds his subject, who is reluctant to assume these powers and spends the remainder of the movie whining and complaining. I guess I would whine too, after realizing all the good superhero powers were already taken, and I was left with this.The rest is predictable. PumaMan masters his ability conjure up a lame background theme song every time he flies. His take-offs and landings are enhanced with 1970's video game sound effects. And he completes his training, just in time of course, to take on Kobras, an evil villain who is determined to... guess... control the world. I didn't see that coming.The movie includes a limited disco-garbage soundtrack and special effects that are truly ground-breaking (for the 1940's). Donald Pleasence (who must have been exhausted after pursuing Michael Myers and needed an easier adversary), as the evil Kobras, constantly pronounces "PumaMan" as "Pew-ma Man." Think of it as "phew - this movie stinks."Because it truly does.
Anders Twetman I can't believe that this film was made in 1980, it has the look and feel of an action movie from the 60's or maybe the 70's. It looks like it was made on a low budget too, because so many things, like the cars, the stereotypical south American guy, the mustaches, the soundtrack and the special effects all look dated, or extremely cheap, or both. What I'm trying to convey is that this film is of really poor quality in most aspects, which makes it kind of funny. The biggest problem however, which seems to be very common in older, low budget action movies, is that the whimsical concept (in this case, a man having ancient mystical puma powers) is not enough to drive the story forward. Instead, the hero ends up dealing with some rather mundane threat, in a not at all exciting way and the end result is a film that is dull and uninteresting.
Seth Nelson I-can't-stand-this-piece-of-garbage....That-really-messes-up-my-viewing-pleasure....That-is-called-the-Puma-Man....And-that-is-that-for-describing!!!!! Seriously, this movie is not that good. Not at all. I mean, we have to hear that awful theme song over and over again (that's a sign that a movie is true "Mystery Science Theater 3000" material - repeating or recycling music or footage) that sounds like a cross between "The Greatest American Hero" and "St. Elsewhere"; we have to see a lot of cheesy effects, and what else can I say? It's bad, bad, bad, bad, BaD!!!!! The only time I've seen this movie, fortunately, was on "Mystery Science Theater 3000." Mike and the Bots have done such an A+ job chewing this movie up and spitting it out!