Gor II (1988) User Reviews

Never trust someone named Watney

[InzyWimzy · 3/10 · 16 March 2004]

Ah, Gor. I really used to think Cave Dwellers was pretty crappy, but Outlaw of Gor makes me wish Ator could skewer Cabot while Thong pummels Watney Smith into submission. Having seen Outlaw several times, I must admit, it does tend to get better and you catch even more hilarity. The strange thing is that the humor is so unintentional since the actors really play their roles so seriously! Also, add to the fact that Outlaw is preceded by Gor which makes following the plot (what plot??) a difficult task indeed.

Jack Palance really looks annoyed in almost every scene he's in. Maybe it's those really goofy hats he wears and his facial expression which says "I have more talent in my pinky fingernail than all these scum actors combined." Urbano is less than mediocre as Cabot, but is less painful to watch than Russel Savadier's portrayal of sex starved Watney. Try not to regurgitate during his massages (EWW!). The barely clad nymphs in the film add a little (and I do stress little) enjoyment to the film especially the terrific acting of Donna Denton whose "Get out of here, you disgusting worm!" speech may be the highlight of the entire movie. That or any scene with Nigel "Kermit" Chipps.

There must've have been so many Seymour Butts jokes during the making of this film.

Gor-Blimey! It's complete crap!

[Rob_Taylor · 1/10 · 23 May 2004]

Let's see.... take one of the more infamous literary staples, namely the Gor books by John Norman, convert it to film and you'd think you'd be onto a winner. Why? Well, the Gor books, for those of you who haven't had the pleasure, or pain, can be summed up as follows: Conan with pornography. Each and every novel was chock full of porn, sado-masochism and bondage. In short, a "raging-hormone-male-teenager's" wet dream. Hidden amongst the sleaze and thinly-veiled attempts to make the reader think of women as nothing but objects, there are actually some pretty good action-adventure stories. So it would seem that converting them to celluloid would be a winner, even if only on the soft-porn circuit.

Sadly, Outlaw of Gor is nothing like the books. Given my description above, some might breathe a sigh of relief at that. Unfortunately, by taking away the sex, having a budget less than that of the average teenager's weekly pocket money and doing some awful re-inventing of the novels' original ideas (yes there were some!), the filmmakers literally killed the golden goose and replaced it with a prize turkey.

Outlaw is just horrendous throughout, from the acting, the sets, the laughable "costumes", the editing and dialogue right down to the fight scenes that appeared to have been choreographed by the Marx Bros. But the worst thing is seeing how little they used the original material. Nevermind the porn, they plucked names out of the books and didn't do a whole lot else. Tarl Cabot, the hero of the novels, is translated into a weedy vegetarian who is totally against slavery - a complete reversal from the novels. Likewise the Priest-Kings - In the books alien insectoids who ruled the planet. In the movie we get.....Jack Palance, who doesn't seem to be in command of his own lines, let alone the planet. And yes, Jack leers and mugs his way throughout the movie, at least having the grace to look embarrassed at several points.

The plot is feeble, centering around an evil Queen's attempts to take control of the city of Koroba by murdering her husband and blaming it on Cabot. There then follows interminable amounts of wandering about in the desert by Cabot and his midget henchman (I kid you not!). We're also treated to far too many shots of the midget's rear end during the film (I mentioned the costumes were rubbish, didn't I?) and awful moralising dialogue by Cabot about the evils of slavery.

There are no special effects to speak of - the budget was too miniscule for that, just the heady excitement of one lame swordfight after another. At the end, which really sums up the whole movie and had me in hysterics, Tarl Cabot makes as if to snap his sword over his knee - a symbolic gesture of peace. Would have been good too, except that the sword does not break - it bends into a U shape like it was made out of thin tin. Yep, that's Outlaw of Gor for ya - all bent out of shape.

Even on MST3K this is one of the lamest excuses for a movie. It really is best avoided.

Worst movie I have ever seen...

[nikkk-1 · 1/10 · 29 March 2007]

The only reason I actually sat through this entire movie is because I happened to be an extra in it and was curious to see myself on the big screen. They shot some of the scenes in South Africa, in and around an old mine dump just outside my home town (Benoni). As poor students, my buddy and I thought it would be a fun way to make extra money being extras in movies during vacations, and it kinda was. We made a load of spare cash too, since the movie makers were exploiting the currency exchange rate at the time and paid pretty well (for us at the time anyway).

Anyway, the movie was laughable, and even during filming I could tell that it was going to be. If you ever happen to see this movie, there is a fight scene where the hero kills his attacker with a big (wooden) sword by clearly stabbing the ground next to his chest. Do I need to say more?

So who's the hero?

[Installation_At_Orsk · 7 August 2011]

I was shocked to find that this was made in 1989; it felt more like an early '80s Conan rip-off. It also probably means that Jack Palance went straight from the mega-bucks production of Batman to slumming it in a desert with a bunch of Italian non-actors.

The oddest thing about this movie is that it has no hero. Yes, Cabot may have the camera pointed at him most of the time, but he does absolutely nothing to affect the story's outcome. He doesn't kill the evil priest (someone else does that), he doesn't turn the people against the evil queen (someone else does that - with just one line of dialogue! These people are easily swayed) and he doesn't even kill the evil queen (someone else does that too). He might as well not have been there. For about the last 20 minutes, he just gets repeatedly beaten and whipped: it would be The Passion Of The Cabot, if anything approaching "passion" were in the actor's repertoire.

Cabot's wormy friend is also one of the most annoying and punchable "comic" sidekicks in movie history.

The first Gor was weak, the sequel's even worse

[TheLittleSongbird · 1/10 · 25 January 2015]

The first Gor at least had the music score redeeming it a little even if nothing else worked, it also made the mistake of having on board two talented actors and wasting them both. Here in Outlaw of Gor, aka Gor II, the score is the closest the film gets to having any kind of energy, unfortunately it is almost inappropriately utilised and actually doesn't fit at all.

Outlaw of Gor is a really cheap-looking film, as with the first Gor the photography is constantly shoddy, the sets are drab and the costumes are a mix of the cheapest plastic armours and left-over-fabrics except to even worse effect. The script is incredibly juvenile, in a way that even a child would find insulting hearing it, and has no flow at all, you can actually feel the cornball awkwardness the actors clearly felt delivering it. The film is so thin plot-wise that you'd be forgiven if you thought there wasn't one, it's laboriously paced and doesn't even try to make sense- in fact the duller the film gets the more incomprehensible it gets too. The fight scenes and their choreography are even more artificial than the children's-playground-like ones in the first film, the editing is slapdash in the scenes, the choreography is unenthusiastic sloppiness all over and there's just no fun or tension or even life to them.

The characters have very little personality, just underdeveloped genre clichés really, and Outlaw of Gor has to have one of the most irritating comedy relief sidekicks of all time. To call the direction inept is an understatement and the acting is terrible across the board. This is including Jack Palance, who actually was a great actor who excelled in villain roles but you wouldn't think so here, here is his career worst performance and the only time where he looked bored and embarrassed. Particularly bad in the acting department were Urbano Barberini who once again tries to mask his lack of charisma and limited acting skills with cornball dialogue delivery and acting like a buffoon and it gets annoying, Donna Denton who screams her lines almost the entire time and it gets old quickly and Russell Savadier whose character is useless and irritating in the first place and his performance really grates on the nerves. Oddly enough despite Palance being the best known actor and actually having acting talent Rebecca Ferratti is the least bad, there's more life and expression than there was in her performance in the first film and she does light up the screen with her sexiness.

All in all, one of the worst sequels ever made, making the same major mistakes the first film did to even worse effect and makes more on the way. As extremely weak the first Gor was, it's Citizen Kane compared to this almost irredeemable follow-up. 1/10 Bethany Cox

I think Jack Palance fired his agent after this.

[MisterCentury · 2/10 · 10 July 2006]

My theory: The producers of this film first made the movie "Gor". It only took them four days. Then someone noticed that they still had three days left on their equipment rentals, so they decided to film a second movie. Someone put together a script while on a potty break. They used the same sets, the same props, and much the same cast. The end result was "Outlaw of Gor".

Jack Palance must have been hard-up for money to do this. It ranks up there with the biggest wastes of talent in movie history, right next to Max von Sydow in "Strange Brew" and Sir Lawrence Olivier in "Clash of the Titans".

Oh buffalo shots, won't you come out tonight, come out tonight, come out tonight...

[Oosterhartbabe · 2/10 · 4 April 2006]

Agghhh! Why do the Italians continue to make these horrible cheap knock-offs of American genre films? To ship them directly to video over here and makes tons of filthy lucre, or Lira, or whatever, off the poor unsuspecting American public's pain. In this awful serving, which is a sequel to a film that I haven't(thankfully) watched(I actually saw the first movie to Cavedwellers, much to my horror), an idiot professor by the name of Tarl Cabot(what kind of stupid moniker is that, anyway?!) is drawn once again to the planet called Gor. Along for the ride is his 'friend' and fellow professor, Watney(again with the ridiculous name!). This guy is one of the most annoying characters ever put onto film. He has a contest with himself early on in the film to see how many times he can say Cabot! in the space of five minutes. Four thousand and twelve, I think the total was. If only I'd had a shovel and a way to get into the movie, that sucker would have been toast..

Anyhoo, Cabot arrives at the capitol city of..umm...the country? Planet? Or whatever, of Gor, called Koroba. Here this turkey is greeted as a hero(did the good citizens have nothing else to do that day?) by one and all and taken into the castle of the King. He's in love with the King's daughter, although how she stood his open mouthed trout kissing is anyone's guess. There's a lot of misogynistic scenes with scantily clad women and, more disturbingly, an equally scantily clad albino dwarf(am I making that up? God,I wish I was). Apparently Cabot and the dwarf are 'old friends'(nudge, nudge, wink, wink). Enter at this point the venerable Jack Palance(what is he doing in this piece of crap? I mean, I know a job's a job, Jack, but come on!), dressed in a ridiculous costume with what looks like a split butter top loaf of bread on his head instead of a hat. He's supposed to be the second bad guy, along with the evil younger Queen that the King married(sure, seventy year old decrepit guy, she married you because she loves you! Yeah, right!).

Cabot's wormy friend Watney is seduced by the Queen(ewww!) into helping her frame Cabot for her husband's death by really sharp blade. He goes on the run with his personal dwarf, and we see them wander for days in the desert(or that's what it feels like, anyway). During this time, we get an immense amount of buffalo shots from the two men in their tiny loin cloths. I SO did not need to see that dwarf's butt cheeks the fifteen times or so that they showed them! They see a slave caravan where the slaves are wearing toilet seats instead of collars around their necks, and the dwarf unfortunately stops Cabot from drinking some poisoned water. Dammit, Herve, couldn't you just have let him die? We would all have thanked you, believe me!

They get out of the desert and save a slave girl from the market. Cabot gives her a lecture about loving freely(who does this guy think he is? John Brown Cabot?) then he goes back to the capitol city to try to rescue the Princess(who was in a wrestling match with a pair of lesbians) and stop the evil Queen and her creepy old High Priest adviser(Palance). Of course he succeeds, when in reality this guy would have had as much chance of winning the day as he would have had successfully hang gliding off of Mt. Everest. You'd at least think that the utterly infuriating little toad Watney would have been killed by the Queen, but no...the last scene is of this total moron walking down a road in 'America'(for America, read Italy), still wearing the lame ass costume he got in Gor. Once again I have to take my hat off to the Italians, who loved making films with scantily clad well oiled idiots pretending that they're big, bad swordsmen and wizards. These aren't even B grade films-they're more like Z-grade for the most part, although most of them do have the laugh factor going for them, since they're pure Italian cheese of the stinkiest kind.

Gor and Gor II

[azazeleblis · 2/10 · 29 December 2010]

Most simply, these movies are proof that science fiction and fantasy have fallen completely.

From Asimov's foresight and Tolkien's epics... devolve this sexually awkward televised game of Dungeons and Dragons?! I am disappointed with the genre because of this film.

No plot, annoyingly hollow characters that never develop, horrible actors, and a poor concept from the beginning make this movie (and it's twin) worthless. Quite literally, Mother Goose's simplest tale has miles more to say about the world. While such a feat used to be hard for this genre, now it seems 9 year olds get novels published, and screenplays filmed.

It gets a second star simply for being so easy to heckle. The Mystery Science Theater 3000 version is more enjoyable, and illustrates my point beautifully. However, this episode is a little wasted if you don't watch with friends and heckle along too.

Cabot, Cabot, Cabot, Cabot, Cabot, Cabot, Cabot!!!

[tmdarby · 1/10 · 19 February 2016]

Terrible movie, great MST3K episode. The movie, bad in just about every aspect. The acting, writing, and special effects are on par with a high school play.

If you think that the presence of Jack Palance can save this movie, think again. He actually makes the movie worse by just being a good actor. He makes it glaringly obvious that the rest of the cast is horrible. Oh and the costumes, my god the costumes.

For a fun game while watching, drink every time they say Cabot. You'll be drunk within the first 15 min of the film, and that's bound to make it more interesting.

"Get out of here, you disgusting 'worm'!"

[bensonmum2 · 4/10 · 13 November 2007]

Outlaw's plot comes straight out of the Sword and Sorcerer Handbook – an evil queen kills her husband and blames it on the innocent hero, Tarl Cabot (Urbano Barberini), so she might take control of the thrown. Cabot spends the rest of the movie trying to clear his name, undo the queen's evils, and return to his true love.

Overall, Outlaw is one of the poorer examples of the Conan "inspired" rip-off I've seen recently. While the movie has a number of weaknesses, the most glaring is Barberini in the lead role. He makes for one of the most nondescript, unexciting heroes I've seen. He's completely unconvincing. And what's the point in announcing quite proudly in the movie that our hero is a vegetarian? Was Outlaw funded by PETA? What's the point in adding that to the movie? It takes what is an otherwise namby-pamby hero and makes him even more so. Between the emasculated Tarl Cabot, scene after scene of a midget's hinder, an annoying side-kick named Watney, and an embarrassed looking Jack Palance wearing one of the goofiest looking hats imaginable, you've got the recipe for one bad movie.

Yet I haven't rated Outlaw as low as I could have. Why? Well, I have a weakness for this kind of movie. I tend to enjoy most sword and sorcerer type movies, even the bad ones. That, plus some of the outfits worn by Donna Denton, seems to be enough to warrant a point or two.

Deserves a little credit

[neil-476 · 5/10 · 17 December 2013]

There is a rebel uprising kind of thing on sword and sandal slave planet Gor.

Stuff a synopsis, this "European with token American" nonsense doesn't merit it. It has come in for a fair amount of criticism and, for the most part, it deserves it.

Yet it has some production value - there are many extras, there are costumes over which some care has been taken (they still look naff, though), there is some decent gymnastic skill showed in some of the fight sequences, and much of the scenery is attractive. So what if the script is ropey and the cast can't act? I have seen worse. But don't get the impression that means that this is good - it isn't.

"i was cleaning and polishing the vibrations of the home stone."

[contactgmt · 10/10 · 16 March 2005]

outlaw of gor. the title says it all. a few comments before we begin: its a sequel, and far more exotic and watchable than its predecessor, useless comparisons to the story on which it was based will not be entertained here. second, mst 3k is not outlaw of gor. finally, whoever caught the midget butt thing was right on. this is typical example of a moment caught on this awkward film that makes me wonder, what, exactly, are we supposed to be thinking about this? we also see urbinos ass in the same shot. true, all of this is as appealing as awful watney smith getting massaged or the queen yelling "guards!" even once, though she does it about six thousand times in the movie...anyhow, you get the idea that the viewer is left to wonder what the filmmakers were thinking. its really baffling. jack palance is amazing. i assume he was taking his annual holiday in Italy when he got picked up for this one. his performance as Zeno is almost as good as the hip-hop/wizard costume he wears. any movie where palance wears fat gold chains and speaks in monosyllables is worth something. a half-smile is detectable on his face throughout his performance. the hardest part of the film is how unevenly its paced. this is typical for adventure films, to proceed in chapters, but nothing really apologizes for this. one more thing, in the first five minutes you will hear the name Cabot repeated about six hundred times. also, the set for the castle sort of looks like a terry Jones fantasy movie i saw once but forgot the title. one may also be confused by a scene which was choreographed in the manner of a high school dance class, with the added dimension of exploitation, achieved by a nodding palance and bouncing small man. the upper part of the frame here was masked off not very successfully in post production, or maybe during a set shot. you'll see what i mean. it sort of looks like the concert scene in the blues brothers where the crowd and the stage are pastiched together. naturally, gor doesn't achieve any describable effect. this film is very annoying at times and at others, downright mystifying. i would suggest this movie only to those who prefer a strange film and have a high tolerance for poor film-making. for those of you brave enough, i would say go out and see it right away.

It's impossible to underrate this one

[lemon_magic · 2/10 · 25 November 2005]

OK, so someone took the basic outlines of the infamous "Gor" novels and used them as an excuse for this amazingly threadbare, slipshod excuse for a feature film. I want to blame John Milius and Arnold Schwarzenegger for this mess, since it came out in 1989, but in actuality it was probably just another piece of product grunted out by the "Sword and Sandals" division of the Italian film industry/sausage factory, and it (or something very similar to it) would probably have been made even if "Conan" had never existed.

So let's see what we've got here. Acting? Well, somehow they got hold of Jack Palance and dressed him up in choir robes and a series of goofy hats. Even sleep walking through his ridiculous part, he's got more talent than the rest of the cast put together. This Urbano guy...well, he's handsome, and he's buff, and he knows how to pose, and that's about it. Everyone else can barely get their lines out without stammering or chewing the scenery, and the guy who plays "Watney" will probably never live down his role in this turkey if he lives to be 210 years old.

Writing and screenplay...sorry, you must be thinking of some other movie. There is no such thing as "writing" on display anywhere here. I am trying to make allowances for factors such as dubbing and translation but...no, even allowing for that, this thing obviously wasn't "written", it was assembled from the random output of 1000 monkeys sitting at typewriters, and then carefully edited to remove all trace of human feeling or dramatic veracity from the results.

Costumes, scenery, etc.??? Nope, no such thing here. Oh, the actors don't wear their own clothes to the shoot, and they aren't standing out in a vacant lot, but the things used here were thrown together in an afternoon on a budget of about $29.98, so they doesn't really qualify. This is just some stuff they used to avoid having nude actors pantomiming sword fights in an empty field. Hell, they're ANTI-costumes...you've never seen so much un-sexy skin in your life. (My favorite example: the 60 year old balding, flabby guy in the leather bustier).

I don't want to hate on this film too much, such it doesn't really deserve venom or hatred....just contempt and dismissal. Compared to a lot of things put out by the Italian film industry (say, "Machiste Vs Hercules In the Vale of Woe", a film so bad that it actually drives strong men to tears), this isn't all that bad...it's just dull, lifeless, uninspired and goofy without being funny. The Urbano-whosis guy, you know, the romantic lead, survived this movie...he even went on to do dozens of other film roles in Europe. That puts him one up on people like Kurt Thomas after "Gymkata" or Ben Affleck after "Gigli".

Watch this once, preferably with the MST3K coverage to get you through the roughest spots, on a lazy Sunday afternoon when you are too hungover or sleepy to watch anything more ambitious. And if this sequel is any indication, don't seek out the first "Gor" movie, not if you value your brain cells.

Stunts like you've never seen them before.

[fedor8 · 6 December 2013]

The smelly hands of dilettantes can be found all over this amazingly inept Z-movie, starting from the moronic plot-twists, moronic characters, and moronic costumes all the way to action sequences so badly choreographed they might rank this turkey in the "Top 5 Most Awful MST3K Fight Scenes".

The Evil-Bitch Queen - or "bitch in heat" as Jack Palance so hilariously calls her - is such a bad mastermind coup-maker that one has to wonder just how stupid her kingdom's subjects must be to let her get away with it all. I think they must be even thicker than the medieval dirt-faced mob in the "burn-the-witch" skit from "Monty Python & The Holy Grail". She kills two key political figures (old geezers) in her kingdom within an hour - the second one in front of a dozen witnesses - and then a few days later actually stabs Palance, out of the blue, in the gut in front of the ENTIRE populace. So dumb it really has to be seen to be believed. Just minutes later, her "cold-blooded" Bobba-Fett-like mercenary turns against her - for absolutely no reason at all - and kills her from a distance with a spear. He then looks on with the face of a man much bewildered, not unlike Leatherface after a successful bludgeoning. Not as bewildered as the viewers though.

The MST3K team riffs the movie well; there are some big laughs, including a proper drubbing of Palance who looks positively stupid and highly embarrassed in his goofy "space" costume. We mustn't forget his elaborate clown-hat, either, which prevented him from doing spontaneous push-ups. Bored, too; his face reeks of desperation, and one can almost read the impatience on his face to finish a scene and just go back to his trailer – where I presume many bottles of hard liquor awaited to drown out the pain of doing low-budget stinkers such as this. His character has nothing at all to do with the plot in the first hour, aside from following his Evil Queen around like a piece of furniture on legs.

I am going to assume they shot Gor and Gor II back to back

[Aaron1375 · 3/10 · 16 February 2016]

I cannot fathom that the first Gor film was profitable enough to warrant a sequel. Sure, there were some pretty bad B movies back in the day getting sequel after sequel; however, I had at least heard of said films. I had never heard of Gor or Gor II in my youth. No, I only heard of this one after 2010 when I was looking through a list of films that Mystery Science Theater has riffed and that is how I first saw this sequel. I also saw parts of the first one, as this one recaps the previous adventures of Cabot the most bland sword and sorcery hero I have ever witnessed! Forget any Conan the Barbarian comparisons, this guy is worse than Ator or even Yor the hunter from the future who sort of lives in the past, but not really! I cannot think of a single 'hero' from a film of this type that falls as short as this guy does, and I am not just talking the character, I am talking about the actor who depicts him too. Guy is a nobody and obviously cannot fight as they had to use a stunt double for him during the 'climatic' battle scene against two rotund individuals who would only be threatening in real life at an all you can eat buffet. The only real actor of note in this one is a very angry looking Jack Palance who so obviously does not want to be in this film, but probably needed a check and thought a trip to Italy would be nice!

The story has Cabot returning to the world of Gor, a world that is behind our times, but has some magic and lots of 80's looking women with big hair. That is one of the things I have to give this film credit for, it has some very attractive 80's girls in it showing cleavage and in some instances oiled up! Well, after his name is mentioned a ton of times, Cabot finds himself in the middle of a set up where a priest uses the king's trophy wife to take control of the kingdom, at least that is what he seems to be doing at first. Later, it seems more like the priest is the queen's puppet and that the priest is the more reasonable, who knows, it probably is a good book, but the movie is not. Cabot wanders the desert with his small friend sidekick and gets offers of pleasure all over the place before everyone rejoices as the defenseless queen is skewered. Bravo guys, imprisoning a woman with no weapons or powers would have been too hard.

This made for a rather funny episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as the jokes were fast and furious. Though most of the best jokes came during Cabot and friend first coming to the city and then Cabot and little friend escaping through the desert. I loved their jokes making fun of the badly dubbed little person's voice. Still, this film had more to offer as far as riffs that they seemed to miss, like the the queen being killed in kind of brutal fashion when she could have been simply taken captive. For the most part some funny stuff.

So you get to see Jack Palance as some wizard type dude who seems to be pulling the strings and is not. An annoying sidekick that is thankfully tucked away for awhile and replaced by a small version of Edgar Winter. A vegetarian hero who really does not do all that much heroic stuff, but has great restraint when it comes to resisting girls who wish to give him pleasure and lots of cleavage! Also, lots of male buttocks shots for the ladies! There is something for everyone in this film! Just not a very well done story. Does not really have that great of action scenes either. The actors and actresses are bland too. Okay, so cleavage and buttocks are about it. Welcome to the magical world of Gor, where there really is not much magic beyond the ability of its people to bring a mediocre man from Earth to help them sort out their problems!

Generic Hack-and-Slash: Possible Spoilers

[stargzer · 3/10 · 28 July 2016]

I like reading SciFi and Fantasy, but I've neither read nor heard of the Gor novels. I saw the summary on the Comet TV listing on cable and figured I'd record "Gor" and "Outlaw of Gor" for later viewing. I was never expecting a classic film like "The Best Years of Our Lives" (one of my favorites) or a classic fantasy saga like "The Deed of Paksenarrion," just a generic Hack-And-Slash time filler, and that's what I got.

A lot of both Gor movies reminded me a bit of the Edgar Rice Burroughs "Barsoom" novels I read in my youth--deserts, fights, hero transplanted from another world. Cabot's friend Prof. Watney Smith, an annoying schmendrick if there ever was one, reminded me of the incompetent sidekick Trent in the old "Leather Goddesses of Phobos RPG, which was released three years before this film; I guess this film compares a bit to the "lewd" mode of LGOP. He's not as treacherous as Dr. Smith in "Lost in Space," but you still want to slap him silly. I did, however, like the midget comic sidekick character Hup.

Fight scenes? Check. Skimpy costumes, including some string bikini tops designed to look topless in a long shot? Check. Sleazy sidekick you really want to slap silly? Check. Comical "short person" sidekick who sometimes finds a way out of trouble? Check. A true actor stuck in a film just to maintain his union membership so he retains health insurance and retirement benefits? Check. A couple of plot twists about who takes out the villains at the end? Check.

Three stars, something to pass the time; don't go in expecting any more that a time filler.

It'll make you want to Gor your eyes out...

[Gislef · 2/10 · 15 January 1999]

*shrug* I guess it's a sequel, and we see some sequences from the original, and some people have claimed to see it, so I guess it must exist. But why anyone would want to make a sequel is anyone's guess, much less _this_ sequel. Jack Palance is the big-name star, and he manages to embarrass himself fully as a priest in leftover Pharisee robes from Jesus Christ Superstar. he's given plenty of help by the amateur Italian movies who appear here, though. If you ever felt tempted to pick up the misogynistic Gor series of novels, watching this movie should convince you otherwise.

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[jessegehrig · 1/10 · 17 August 2022]

So this is the sequel to the first Gor movie, which is crazy because not only have I never met someone who saw the first Gor, nobody has ever mentioned to me that they liked it. So then they made a sequel to a movie nobody saw or liked and I don't know what its about other than no one in the movie had access to pants or shirts with sleeves.

This movie was terrible.

[MrMorden · 1/10 · 29 November 1998]

The first one was bad enough, and the short skirts, one take filming, and Jack Palance in funny hats just made me nauseous.

Some Decent Cheese

[Tweetienator · 3/10 · 18 February 2022]

If you survived watching the first Gor movie you will survive Outlaw of Gor too. I like the first one a litte better (not that I claim that the first movie is a masterpiece or something like that) but anyway, if you like to dig some cheesy sword and magic style, you can this one on your plate too. It's at least in his own way more entertaining than most of the stuff they produce and air these days on all those pay channels.

DONNA DENTON IS BEAUTIFUL, A FOX, & MAIN REASON TO WATCH

[Thomas_J_McKeon · 8/10 · 16 April 2019]

Fair film, apparently shot in So. Africa dessert. I watched several times, mainly to see the beautiful Donna Denton. She was also "The Face" in the Stacy Keach 'Mike Hammer' TV series. 'Outlaw of Gor' demonstrates that she is more than just a face. She steals the show from female star Rebecca Ferratti. Deonna Denton is the main (maybe the only) reason to watch this so-so film. They don't come any prettier than Ms. Denton.

Best MST3K ever

[soror_yzbl · 10/10 · 22 May 2001]

Ok, the movie on it's own is pretty horrible, but when you had mike, servo and crow to the mix, it becomes the funniest movie ever made. The whole Jack Palance bit just got me going. However, if you're just watching the movie, you can surely appreciate the cheese that this movie presents. As it is commonly said, there are bad movies, and there are movies so bad they're good. This falls into the latter category. Much like Battlefield Earth.

nice plot, poorly made film

[mfujie · 10/10 · 17 August 2000]

I found the story concept to have some potential but the film was poorly made. Tarl's sidekicks could have been different and better (and less irritating). The props could have been improved at lot more. As for the lead actor, Urbano Barberini looks right for the role but his acting skills were rather bad.

This was made in 1989??

[laferrythomas · 7 September 2003]

Wow, is this flick ever a heaping mound of elephant dung. The terrible skimpy metallic costumes and lame dance routines done by the few women "acting" in this film can't have been made in 1989... who was lame enough to continue fads from 1983 at this point in their career? It's a good "bad movie" to watch MST3K-style, though... although seeing Jack Palance in this just made me cry. Was he forced to do it? Did he really need the money? Poor Jack. Must be pretty embarassing to be a supporting actor with top billing. Rent it and weep, my friends!

Don't watch the original, watch the MST3K take

[cyberspiff-77138 · 8/10 · 31 May 2022]

Volumes could be written about how to use this movie in a class to teach students how not to make a movie. That is reason enough to watch it, but it is better for your eyes, ears, and general health to watch the MST3K riff on it.