Amazon Jail 2 (1987) User Reviews

An Unlikely Comedy

[Uriah43 · 2/10 · 26 December 2016]

This movie begins with several people dancing on a beach in Brazil when men suddenly appear out of nowhere and take four of the female dancers into captivity. As it turns out the men are sex-slave traffickers and one of these female prisoners (played by Vanessa Alves) just happens to be the princess of the tribe. In any case, having abducted these women the traffickers then communicate with their boss who arranges for them to be sent by air to a rich Japanese man living in an isolated part of South America. However, once the women get aboard the airplane the pilot and his assistant decide to help them escape when they land at a secluded location by overpowering the guards and then running with them into the dense Amazon jungle. Unfortunately, the leader of the traffickers doesn't give up easily and he convinces his men to follow him into the jungle in order to get them back. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film had some possibilities, but the director (Conrado Sanchez) wasn't quite up to the task. For starters, there were several scenes involving snakes and big jungle cats which kept being repeated but failed to accomplish anything of importance as none of these scenes were in the least bit scary or suspenseful. Likewise, the decision to make this film into a comedy was equally ill-advised as there really wasn't much humor to be found either. In short, except for possibly the presence of Vanessa Alves, there honestly isn't much here to recommend and I have rated this movie accordingly.

Slapstickian women in prison film!

[Dario_the_2nd · 4 April 2013]

A very very rare and obscure WIP-movie, almost impossible to track down is the "Prisioneiras da Selva Amazônica" (1987) aka Amazon Jail 2. All movies ever made were once released though tracking them these days isn't always that easy! But with a big percentage of persistency and patience as money of course there will be a moment you strike that bullseye! Also in this case with a Greek release of "Prisioneiras da Selva Amazônica". That's what collecting is all about!

• Director Conrado Sanchez brings us the sequel to "Curral de Mulheres" (1982) aka "Amazon Jail". Cliché baseline, easy script, sleazy acting, a couple of sexy multi-racial women, some weird and strange characters, such as the rich baron with his black-butler dwarf with a big cowboy-hat doing business selling women with a Samurai! Women locked-up ready to be sold, nevertheless as in any good WIP movie they know to escape, most thanks to their friend "Chubby" a fat Bud Spencer-like-kinda good guy! Fleeing thru the Brazilian jungle towards their freedom, the girls show more braveness in conquering the jungle dangers such as snakes, tigers and of course spiders, Chubby only gets teased for his cowardliness what actually brings the comedy aspect into the movie. The hike throughout the jungle is pretty boring and i guess the director thought he was shooting more of a comedy as a women in prison film. Otherwise i wouldn't see the point of editing a police-car-siren-tune on a couple of ostriches passing by in the jungle! Dhu! Never knew there are ostriches to be found in the Brazilian jungle, but anyway. At a certain point the slapstick humor becomes that high you even wonder or you're watching the right flick! We continue on this level for almost the entire movie. In the end we're getting served on a few weak boat-chases, couple of ridiculous fights with a flamethrower, all of a sudden the women are free, then out of nowhere a few local women pop up in some sort of traditional dance and the end-credits pop-up and that was Amazon Jail 2! Recommended, well that we leave completely up to you!