Review of Darna vs. the Planet Women

DARNA VS. THE PLANET WOMEN is a very low budgeted little Filipino action movie featuring an ass-kicking female superhero battling against an alien race planning to dominate mankind. In other words this is a localised version of WONDER WOMAN, with a lookalike copy-cat heroine and a much, much lower budget than an average episode of the '70s TV show. Vilma Santos is the arresting heroine of the piece; she played Darna a few times during her career and is the best actor here. The villains are a laughable bunch with the blue-skinned leader particularly amusing, and the various action and SFX sequences are quite laughable. This is certainly a far cry from the great superhero kid's stuff that Japan, for example, was making during the decade.