Pumaman (1980)

Best movie of this year hands down!

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is the best super hero movie ever made. I am surprised that there is no reboot yet. 10/10 must watch.

Low-budget film about a young man given a mystical medallion by an Aztec shaman, in order to become a puma-empowered champion like his father before him. In trying to initially locate the young man, the shaman has the nasty habit of pushing candidates out of windows to test them.If not for "Mystery Science Theater", this film would probably have been forgotten. As of now (2015), the film was released on VHS, but never DVD. The VHS tapes actually got for a fairly high price online. There must be some kind of a demand.And, you know, despite being a bad movie, it is a fun bad movie. And many folks (myself included) love Italian horror / fantasy / adventure films. It would be great to see this film released on DVD or even Blu-ray, cleaned up with some sort of information on its creation and the director.

In France, when a movie is so bad he becomes funny (unintentionally, it's important) we call it a "NANAR".And there's a real audience for this kind of movie (Ed Wood like). These movies are treasures because they become rare. Nowaday, the bad movies have at least decent SFX, decent editing, the directors have all followed a formation... But during the 60-70-80's absolute incompetent directors could make movies. So there is a bunch of them, but a limited bunch, and this one is famous.So if "Puma man" made me laugh and spent a good time, I must give more than 1 or 2 stars. And I must recommend it.My favorite quotes : Boss ! This man is FLYING like... Like ?.. ... like a PUMA !(Because, as everybody knows : the pumas fly.) LOL !;-))

We're all familiar with this old chestnut. Somebody finds a magic amulet, or discovers that they are descended from aliens or gods, or has an accident involving radioactive material, and they become transformed. They are granted fantastic powers and transformed into a super-human. The can choose to become a hero, an altruistic paragon making the world a better place, or they can take up their will to power and use their superhuman might at the expense of all others.Or, they can become Puma Man. Whiny, pathetic, cowardly, unintelligent, and above all woefully incompetent, Puma Man doesn't represent a single character so much as a statistical inevitability. Not every person who happens to have a great-grandfather from Asgard or parents from Alpha Centauri or a run-in with a radioactive arthropod will be inherently a cunning mover and shaker with the will to effect change in the world. Many people, if given the power of telekinesis, would just fetch the remote and expose certain people's underwear. No amount of physical or supernatural might can replace good old fashioned dedication to a cause, and not everyone has the guts to risk life and limb to battle for supremacy of the world.To find out "What would happen if your mooching, high-school drop out older cousin became a superhero", I direct you to watch "Puma Man".If you want to actually see somebody who isn't overshadowed by his vaguely ethnic faithful companion, leave this film alone.