When the Girls Take Over

"When the Girls Take Over" was not the first American B movie to be inspired by Fidel Castro's revolution, but it has to be the first one - maybe the ONLY one - to make it a comedy. That's certainly a new angle, but the end results suggest why it wasn't done again, that being that the movie is extremely unfunny. That alone is enough to kill the movie, but the movie manages to make things even worse. The script is a mess. The story is often confusing, and feels like they are making things up as they go along, such as the fact that important characters are off screen for extremely long periods of time. Add some slipshod production values (such as the prominent shadow of the cameraman at one moment), you end up with one real mess of a movie. Is there anything of merit to be found here? Well, the location shooting on the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico does occasionally give a visually interesting backdrop. Though since all current prints of this shot in color movie are in black and white, viewers won't be able to get the full impact of the visuals.