Superzan y el niño del espacio (1973) User Reviews

Superzan

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 1 August 2021]

Superzan has always been closer to a superhero than a luchador and sadly, this film doesn't make me like the character any more than I already had - which was not much.

The Space Child of the title is Silio, a gold-skinned boy from the planet Aramina in the Andromeda galaxy. His goal is to solve our energy crisis because if we keep using fossil fuels, we're going to knock our planet and then our galaxy out of place and then ruin everything. To make it happen, he works with a scientist to create a supercomputer before that dastardly nerd kidnaps him and decides to take over the world.

The golden boy sends a plea to his home planet for Superzan to rescue him, but the evil scientist has a luchador that does his dirty work named Evil Genius, which adds up to lots and lots of wrestling between the two of them.

Of course, the alien child came here in peace and we weren't ready for it, so he goes back home. Way to go, humanity. Obviously, we have learned nothing since 1973, even if we attempted to listen to an orange-faced manchild for some obscene length of time.

Bad film lovers only

[dbborroughs · 1/10 · 14 March 2011]

A stinker no way around it. A space boy comes to earth in a ship bigger on the inside than the outside and is waylaid by an evil scientist looking to use his knowledge for evil.Can Superzan save the day? Does anyone care? Probably not.

Laughably bad masked hero film has lots of capes, home movie level props and an intelligence level that is beyond low. I watched this horrified that anyone would have put this into theaters and expected people to pay for it. I mean the ray gun used by some of the bad guys is clearly a child's toy.

It's awful, I mean really bad.

Yes it's unintentionally funny, but there aren't enough laughs to justify what will amount to 80 minutes of your life wasted.

avoid.

Campy, cheap and fun sci-fi flick from Latin America.

[MonsterVision99 · 7/10 · 29 May 2022]

At this point in lucha libre cinema several Agrasanchez pictures were shot in Guatemala to lower production costs and some of them were held by a director from said country: Rafael Lanuza. Lanuza was a Guatemalan director who began his career in 1952 with Una corona para mi madre and would continue to direct other films that include some well-known luchador movies from the era. Although most of his independent Guatemalan filmography seems to be lost or straight up neglected.

Superzan and the Space Boy is a cheesy low budget joint in the same vein as some of the previous Agrasanchez films but with cool visuals, cheap but nice looking special effects and an intriguing plot involving a benevolent alien that is used by an evil scientist to fufill his plans of world domination. A fun and colorful ride with very little action but the kooky story and characters make up for it. Oddly enough, the Superzan movies seem to be slightly more thoughtful and less action driven than other flicks of the genre, almost subversive even, since most of the alien beings presented are often well-intentioned and humans are always the bad guys.

Quite a silly piece of Latin American sci-fi from the seventies. Recommended for cult film fans and those who enjoy Santo movies as well, but make sure you know spanish or have subtitles.