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5/10
Magical
BandSAboutMovies8 July 2020
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This movie is giving me flashbacks to our month of Eurospy films, seeing as how like many of those films this is a multi-nation production, uniting the worlds of Mexico and Peru.

Mireya (Maura Monti, who was The Batwoman in La Mujer Murcielago), Adriana (Amadee Chabot, Murderers' Row) Patricia (Elizabeth Campbell, Martesia from El Planeta de las Mujeres Invasoras) and Dalila (Isela Vega, The Snake People) met in reform school before being adopted by a millionaire named Aunt Ermentrudis (Tamara Garina, Darker Than Night).

She employs her girls at Seguros Internacionales de Proteccion, an insurance company that serves only the most powerful. If people screw them over or even decide to stop using their services, she sends the girls out to murder them and then uses her funeral home to hide the evidence.

That's a great plan until private detective Arsenio Junker Tres Alas starts snooping around after dating Adriana. And now things are further murked up by the fact that Aunt Ermentrudis has ordered the death of rock star Ringo Peniche, who is Delila's boyfriend!

Also known as The Psychedelic Girls, this is a movie packed with fashion, which you know I adore. Its director, Gilberto Martinez Solares, would go on to make Satanico Pandemonium, the magical Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters and the even stranger Misterio en las Bermudas.

In 1987, writers Luis Quintanilla and Ramon Obon created a direct to video remake called Adorable Criminals.

The best review I can think of for this came from Letterboxd reviewer Lencho of the Apes, who said, "Remember that movie Russ Meyer made at Disney Studios? Me neither, but that's what this is."
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Reason: Hat collection
pv6130 September 2011
Maura Monti (Mireya), Amedee Chabot (Adriana), Isela Vega (Dalila) and Elizabeth Campbell (Patricia), are hit women who kill men in cold blood. But not everybody, only men who don't comply with their 'godmother' (Tamara Garina). Their tasks are so secret and dangerous that only they can do them because they are:

a) women,

b) young,

c) beautiful and

d) psychedelic, ha-ha

This movie could be shallow and dated, but it is very important because it is a documentary on hats. A hat main objective is to protect from sun or rain, but here, they rival only with the fruit basket or cage with bird of Carmen Miranda and NInón Sevilla. Check them out! And the best hats are worn by Chabot, specially the one in the style of a diving bell. Too bad they don't mention a credit for costume designer, or better yet, hat designer...
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8/10
not great,but is OK, have the 60s hottest babes in Mexican films
Memorabiliaurb12 April 2006
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This picture about 4 sisters who steal banks and kill rich men,but before marry with them and stay with the money,its a black comedy in a very 60s Mexican way,because the 60s stuff thing is use in everything(music,costumes,set decoration)and the gags are in a very sixties way(today thats a problem because use much references of facts and things of that time and you not always understand these references)have several music videos of songs of the sixties like hang on Sloopy or Whooly Bully,meanwhile the 4 stars of the film dance,walk in the beach or just have fun,this film was a box office smash in Mexico because have 4 of the most attractive stars of that time,even when 2 was born in USA(Elizabeth Campbell,Amedee Chabot) and other was half Italian(Maura Monti)but at that time these 4 women are every man dreams in Mexico and are very popular,Elizabeth Campbell and Amedee Chabot don't use their voices(like in most of the films these 2 made)complete the cast Rogelio Guerra as a goofy detective who try to solve the case of the death men and the banks crimes,but accidentally she know and fall in love with one of the sisters,but one day one she made a mistake and active a bomb who are inside of a clock and the bomb explode and the 4 four sisters die.The film is not great but entertains you and sure you gonna enjoy the good looking stars
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