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Plebeian entertainment for the whole family in its most banal and, at the same time, least diluted form. The result is a film that borders on being a cinematic lobotomy. Trash master Alfonso Brescia tacked together a feature-length circus act offering not only acrobats, but also scantily clad women on horseback and cartoonishly exotic characters, as well as a duo of buffoons tossing out hopeless verbal jokes. Just as the film doesn’t conceal the fact that its visuals were created by recycling costumes, props and exterior sets from Italian studios, its content consists in recycling superficial elements from other low-brow flicks – from export trash about Amazons to the clowning of Spencer and Hill (with the participation of their stuntmen) and secret bases full of DIY gadgets with numerous paraphrases of Bond movies and comic-book flicks. In the interest of maximising the film’s commercial potential, its trampoline extravagance is then crowned its casting, complemented with ethnic couples, whose purpose was to ensure the film’s marketability in the US and the Far East. Super Stooges vs the Wonder Women is tremendously entertaining in its artless shallowness, extensive randomness, momentary pomposity and arduous insipidness. Here viewers separate the wheat from the chaff and the callousness transitions into purely mainstream vulgar degeneracy. (10.09.2023)