The Amazingly Couth Women of Wongo

The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo (2007)
The Wild Women of Wongo (1958)

I have to give special thanks to my friend Ryan for the gift of this film and thus inadvertently compelling me to watch the rest of The Film Crew's oeuvre.  

Wild Women of Wongo is, aside from being an alliterative treat, a quaint film that has all kinds of things that finally The Film Crew can mock with ease.

The framing premise is that The Film Crew is freezing in their basement lair, so this film will be a tropical treat for them.    This premise is quickly discarded because apparently comic writers and performers can't be trusted to keep a premise going for longer than the life span of a sickly fruit fly.

Speaking of sickly fruit flies, I think that was the original intended audience for Wild Women of Wongo.
If you're a sickly fruit fly looking for a mythological origin story with commentary than you're in the right place.

If you're looking for wild women, though, you should know that the wild women of Wongo aren't really wild.   Suffice it to say that they're wearing underwear and also seem to be couth enough to shave their legs.    Even the women of neighboring Goona have a certain degree of couth you wouldn't really expect from wild women.

There is a modicum of plot to this film, which is a creation myth with Wongo being the land of pretty women and ugly men and Goona being its opposite.  Both cultures are threatened by an outside group of people who storm in and kill some of Wongo's population while the women of Wongo are off appeasing their crocodile god.

Laaaaa
La la la la laaaa
La la la la laaaa
La la la la laaaa

Actually, the crocodile seems to be an alligator and it isn't very big when it has to be wrestled underwater.  The whole thing was muddled enough and what with people making jokes constantly it was even harder to figure out what was going on.   But then, I suppose the jokes were why I was watching this in the first place.

I guess The Film Crew was more comfortable making jokes about Wongo because they certainly seemed to have regained a modicum of humor.    It might still have been better if they could have a robot character to hide behind, but it was an improvement after the last two outings.   Maybe the whole thing would have been better if the Wild Women of Wongo were a bit wilder, but it's too late to fix that.

So, I guess Wild Women of Wongo is worth a chuckle or two and if you want to see the world's saddest dried alligator ritual totem then this is definitely the film for you.  

Bill Corbett
Mike Nelson
Kevin Murphy
Bob Honcho....Mike Dodge
Bob Honcho's Secretary....Beth McKeever

Trailers
The Film Crew
In this promo The Film Crew play three rogue CIA agents who are trying to reclaim their identities while escaping from a rogue vampire cult bent on destroying the world with something that requires a 90 minute long fuse.
Zach Galifianikis: Live at the Purple Onion
In this touching film Zach Galifianakis plays a single mother trying to eke out a living in Detroit while keeping her son from joining a gang.  
Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story
Alright, already.  I'll see this movie.  You got me.   I want to see this.

Bonus Features
1. Make Film Crew Dance
Ah, the wonders of moderate interactivity, wherein you can make Mike Nelson dance and then add in Bill and Kevin and finally make them all dance together in the sort of frenzied climax.
"What Madness Drives Her?!"
What madness, indeed.

2. Goodbye, Wongo-Style
Unfortunately, doing it Wongo Style, just means standing next to a cardboard cutout and winking.