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Sheena (1984)

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15 out of 16 people found the following comment useful :-
A guilty pleasure if ever there was one!, 28 January 2004

Author: Big Bad John from Sydney, Australia

People really like to dump on this movie! Sure, it's dumb.... but it's NOT boring! And to the guys who say that Tanya Roberts looks more like a Valley Girl gone Troppo than a Jungle Queen (because a jungle girl would have hairy armpits)......LIGHTEN UP! This is Hollywood, remember? The Dream Factory! Escapism! Who wants Sheena to look like a bush pig?? Not me! As silly as it is, this movie is no worse than the Saturday afternoon matinees of long ago and it certainly is fun to watch, even though the dialog and a couple of the situations are a little cringe-worthy. The scenery (and the cinematography) is awesome and the animals are wonderful. The whole thing moves at a nice pace and yes, Miss Roberts DOES take her clothes off.... and that can't be a bad thing! Oh yeah, look for the string holding up the helicopter just before it crashes....marvelous!! This dvd deserves pride of place on your shelf right next to ANACONDA and GODZILLA. 7 out of 10.

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14 out of 16 people found the following comment useful :-
Enjoy The Film For What Is Was Intended, 7 November 2004
Author: loveout from United States

Sheena wasn't made to win any Academy awards. Nevertheless, for a "B" film the photography is actually quite good. Granted, Tanya's acting ability at this time in her life needed a lot of work. I'm sure the producers knew this going in and didn't care. They knew the attraction would be to watch Sheena doing her thing in her jungle outfit. Tanya was the perfect choice considering the reason for the film. Sheena was made to showcase Tanya Roberts stunning physical attributes and was successful in this regard. She is the reason the movie is still moderately popular after 20 years. So if you like this type of eye-candy film, enjoy! It wasn't meant to be anything else.

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12 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
Fun for the whole family., 18 November 2000
Author: SanDiego from Sheena fan.

I just have to say now that this film has aged rather well. What with "Charlie Angels" up on the big screen audiences are a little less politically correct with regards to heroines. As long as the lead is smart, strong, and independent, it is okay that she is beautiful too. "Sheena" shares the same orb as "Wonder Woman," "Supergirl," Emma Peel of "The Avengers," "Le Femme Nikita," and most obviously, "Xena." This is a family adventure film that is most of all fun where the children seem to enjoy it equally as well as the adults. Children like things that are pretty, and this includes people, so Tanya Robert's natural beauty is appealing to children too on a more simpler level. Yes, there is a little violence (of the adventure film variety) but not grotesquely, frightenly, or sickenly so. The same can be said about the display of skin which is never shown to be associated with sex or violence. What a concept! Thank you! Yes, there are two scenes where Tanya Roberts is fully nude, one of Sheena showering under a waterfall, and another of Sheena walking across the screen to bathe in a pond. But, they are so natural and appropriate (especially for children) that I have to applaud the screenwriter for creating these two scenes in lieu of the usual stupid reasons movie makers have to include nude scenes. Roberts does a terrific job as Sheena.

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10 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
A childhood favorite., 25 February 2004

Author: Bill Hiers (kooshmeister@aol.com) from North Carolina

Along with "Ghostbusters," this is the oldest film I can ever remember seeing. I first saw it on a taped Beta copy when I was about two or three. I watched it up until our Beta machine finally died sometime in 1994 or 1997, and recently my dad got it for me for Christmas on DVD. I have to confess I do like this film in spite of all its obvious flaws, not the least of which is Tanya Roberts' questionable acting abilities, and to tell the truth I'm kind of sick of everyone giving it a hard time.

Yes, Tanya Roberts is a terrible actress, the story is full of holes, and for a PG movie there's a surprising amount of realistic violence. In particular, the helicopter attack on a herd of antelope was pretty needlessly grotesque and it didn't sit well with one of my friends who saw the film with me recently. And then there's the two scenes with full-frontal nudity.

But I'll always love this cheese-fest of a movie regardless of all that is so very wrong with it, most likely because, as noted above, it's one of the two first movies I ever saw as a child. Yeah, when I was a wee one I watched a movie with female nudity, villains wielding automatic weapons, and scenes of genocide both human and non-human (mostly implied genocide, but genocide nonetheless). And you know what? I turned out just fine as an adult. Take THAT, parental watchdog groups!

In closing, you can all whine and complain about Miss Roberts' acting and the film's other flaws until the cows come home. But the one thing I wish people would quit talking about is Sheena's trusty zebra mount, Marika. Yes, it's a horse painted to look like a zebra, but take into account the fact that zebras have resisted all human effort to tame them (or so I've been told). Thus, with tame zebras a figment of the imagination and the script requiring a horse, the filmmakers did the best they could. So cut them some slack, please.

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
Mostly Eye Candy, and WHAT candy!, 7 June 2004
Author: (timmauk@hotmail.com) from st. pete, fl usa

I remember watching this on TV in the 80's. The old gang back at the college dorms really enjoyed this too. This film has a lot GREAT eye candy. Tanya Roberts was sooo worth watching in BEASTMASTER that the big wigs at the studio thought they'd give her another film to "show off" more of her special talents. Not to be sexist, they threw in SOAP's Ted Wass as her love interest and made him show some of his "special talents". Just like in the BEASTMASTER, there are plenty of those adorable animals to entertain and attack those nasty old villains.

With so many bad things happening in this world, do yourself a favor and get away for 90 minutes. Watch something mindless like this to make you forget about elections, markets, wars, terrorist, and J Lo. Let Tanya tame you......

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
Beautiful and strong female hero., 7 October 1999
Author: SanDiego

Not that bad. The production values are excellent and the story line is no worse than TV or low-budgeted action adventure. This is a PG film after all. I remembered this being marketed as a family film, however there are some very violent scenes. The shots of her swinging on a vine were very realistic as were the flamingo and rhino attacks. I was twelve when I first saw it and it was good to have a female action hero. She was very beautiful AND strong. In her early scenes she is shot sexy beautiful, but as the film progresses we see her more as healthy beautiful. I never saw earlier versions of Sheena, however no updated comic book hero movies ever match the originals (Batman, Superman, etc...) Lois Lane is forever updated to match social change, why can't Sheena become more politically correct when it comes to not wearing fur? I think Tanya Roberts has gotten a bum rap over the years. Besides being so beautiful, she has a certain charm and sweetness to her. The hauntingly beautiful theme song is one of the best of any movie. The final shot of Tanya Roberts, a reprise of her first shot, galloping on a zebra along an endless beach of flamingos in the background is breathtaking and worth the rental.

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
last surviving fairy tale, 7 June 2001

Author: sheenafilm from Hamburg, Germany

Tanya Roberts certainly got the best part of her career (alongside the Roger Moore Bond movie, of course) in "Sheena". It's hard to pretend so much innocence and naivete after a life spent in NY and Hollywood, of all places. That's acting... I'd like to point out many scenes with the animals, arranged better than in many Tarzan competitors, and I am not afraid to admit I still am fascinated by this fairy tale that was kindalike the last survivor in 1984 - before digital FX took control. Seen the OTT animal scenes in Jumanji? Maybe you feel the same then.

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Jim can't fix it for the bad guys, 25 May 2002
Author: heedarmy from United Kingdom

Although Tanya Roberts is a terrible actress, "Sheena" isn't unenjoyable. The photography is beautiful, there's a nice score by Richard Hartley and you can get a laugh at the scene where a helicopter is downed by some very obviously fake birds. British viewers will be intrigued by actor John Forgeham (who plays the evil Colonel Jorgensen) - he's a dead ringer for ageing DJ Jimmy Saville (of "Jim'll Fix It" fame).

Rather amusingly, critic Pauline Kael, ruthless scourge of many films better than this, actually liked "Sheena"!

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Very touching, 24 March 2006

Author: powergrinding from United States

This movie is a classic Tanya Roberts , I feel she was so natural in the role instead of fake acting, she is also very magnetic in all her attractions.Shenna is truly the Queen of the jungle , also the villains are superb in there ability to make you hate them for there dirty deeds. Also some comedy relief in some scenes, the best scene of course , is Tanya bathing ala natural , which shows her real outside beauty , no way around this , she is gorgeous and thats that. The actual jungle scenery is great , and her animal magnetism was done well, and her re pore with the animals was great as was the rest of the cast. This should have been rated better, possibly more jealous women voting, Tanya is just drop dead gorgeous.

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Tanya Roberts should be enough, 19 March 2005

Author: Michael Paris (exile@att.net) from United States

OK, so this is purely a vehicle to show off, in my opinion, one of the hottest babes of the 80's - Tanya Roberts. But why must the whole movie be junk. They must have gone to some length to get all of the animals into this film, so that may explain the lack of budget for anything else. Like maybe some bad guys that can shoot straight. Watch it for Tanya and pretend the rest doesn't exist, it's hard, but try. The leading man is horrible. He is not even likable in the least. There was a nice Range Rover in the movie and the befuddle side kick of a camera man was slightly entertaining, but that was it. Why go all the way to Africa to film this schlock. Just put Tanya in some tight leather and let her be "Beastmaster" of Iowa or something.

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