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Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Eric Stevenson When I first came across this film, I thought it would be a retelling of Zorro, but I was disappointed to find that it was instead about this guy who took on the persona of Zorro. Well more accurately, two people who took on the persona. This still isn't by any means a bad movie. It's just so so. I really was afraid that judging from the title, this was just going to be a bunch of gay jokes. I'm fairly certain they were not referring to gay as in the classic notion of "happy". One of the Zorro people did seem pretty feminine. My complaint is that the pacing is a bit off.I'm not that big of a Zorro fan. I was expecting more humor, like this was a parody of Zorro. It was mostly just a straight retelling. There were in fact some pretty funny moments, especially with how the one guy didn't recognize the "Z" as being scary or the other guy thinking it was the number "2". I guess the main problem I had was that this didn't really add anything to the Zorro mythology. It's watchable, just nothing to write home about. I really do appreciate the costumes and sets in this film. It creates good atmosphere, just not something I would recommend. **1/2

bkoganbing Following up his comic triumph in Love At First Bite, George Hamilton took on the dual role of Zorro in Zorro The Gay Blade. Although the man handles a sword well, Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, and Guy Williams would not recognize both the Hamiltons who take their turn at championing the peasants of Spanish California.George Hamilton returns to California from Spain and discovers his father is no longer the Alcalde of Los Angeles and in fact is now dead. His friend Ron Leibman, captain of His Majesty's guards is now the Alcalde combining both civil and military authority and he is having a great old time taxing the peasants to pay for the expensive lifestyle that Leibman and wife Brenda Vaccaro now enjoy. Of course Leibman isn't taking care of some of Vaccaro's other needs and she's giving Hamilton the same eye she gave John Voight in Midnight Cowboy.When Don Diego Hamilton injures himself doing his Zorro thing, by chance he's visited by his twin brother Ramon who is now going by the name of Bunny Wigglesworth. Dad sent him off to the British Navy to get the gay out of him, but as Bunny puts it he was reared in the British Navy, I'm betting he was a most popular cabin boy on long voyages.Anyway when Bunny takes over the Zorro role he brings a sense of style to the part, having a rainbow flavor of costumes instead of the basic black Zorro was known for. And stereotypical gay that Bunny is, that is precisely what is driving Leibman crazy, Bunny's a better swordsman in every conceivable way.Lauren Hutton is also in the cast playing a part that her contemporary during the era, Abigail Adams would envy. She is making sure that the ladies are indeed remembered when as a suffragette some fifty years ahead of her time Lauren is spreading the gospel of the American Revolution being fought at that time on the other side of the continent.George Hamilton plays both Diego and Bunny with a flair and twinkle, the best one in the cast, the one who seems to be having the most fun in his role is Ron Leibman. Leibman is having one whale of a good time overacting outrageously as his part calls for, getting a chance to do what he could normally do only in slasher flicks. He has a great flair himself for comedy, I'm not sure why Ron Leibman doesn't do more of it.I think Fairbanks and Power who had been long gone by the time Zorro, The Gay Blade was released would have really enjoyed this terrific satire on a part that was special to both of them.

billpappas-1 One of my favorite movies of all time. I never cared for George Hamilton who played boring playboys until this movie where he had fun with the role. When he showed up at the masked ball as Margareta Wigglesworth, I almost fell on the floor laughing.Later, the Alcalda goes to the bar and orders a drink for Margareta. The bartender replies '4 margaritas'.My favorite line was at the end when the two brothers were on horseback saying their goodbyes and Bunny told his brother that Lauren Hutton was in love with him and 'would do anything for the man she loved' His brother said 'She said that?' Bunny replies 'Said it, she almost sang it'.

fandangonoir Zorro, the Gay Blade is one of trippiest movies ever. It obviously was made on the heels of the massive box office success of George Hamilton's comedic vampire movie Love at First Bite. They had a big success with Hamilton playing Dracula, why not move onto another comedic version of an iconic character? And thus, we get Zorro, the Gay Blade! George Hamilton is hilarious in his dual role as Don Diego de la Vega and his flamboyant gay twin brother Bunny Wigglesworth (one of the great camp character names ever).Lauren Hutton gives a cool performance too as Zorro's leading lady. She's not as good as Susan Saint James in Love at First Bite. But we couldn't expect comedic lighting to strike twice. Since Love at First Bite was good but one of those films that its success is more of a fluke than anything else. It's one of those films that shouldn't have worked but amazingly did. Ala films like The Blues Brothers, Meatballs and Smokey and the Bandit.Zorro, the Gay Blade is one of those off the wall flawed comedies that belong alongside other late night comedy classics like Jekyll and Hyde Together Again starring the amazing Mark Blankfield.Also, Ron Liebman as Esteban, Zorro's nemesis, is hilarious here as is Brenda Vaccaro as Florinda, Esteban's mondo sexually frustrated wife.Not the greatest comedy ever captured on celluloid. But far superior to most at your local mutliplex, amigo.