10/24/2023
Synopsis: A white girl orphaned and raised by a local African tribe must fulfill a prophecy to protect her people.
The Good: I’ve always liked the jungle girl stories, always will probably. It did stick pretty close to the source material and it didn’t pull punches in ways a lot of films do.
The Bad: White savior in the worst possible way but at least it was also sexist and culturally insensitive. There were a lot of nude scenes and the hero was at once a powerful, mystical heroine…and also a helpless idiot who fell for literally the first white man she’d ever seen.
Best Line: You have fur! The Zambouli men do not have fur on their bodies.’
Fun Fact: Elizabeth of Toro who played the shaman was a Ugandan princess in real life, a Cambridge graduate, the first black woman to appear in Vogue and appointed by Idi Amin as Uganda’s foreign minister.
Verdict:
Technical: 4
Entertainment Value: 5.25
Genre Rating: 5
IMDb Score: 4.9
Total: 4.75
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