I’ve seen a lot of Mexican wrestling movies in my time, but Planet of the Female Invaders might be my first Mexican boxing movie. A boxer double-crosses a gangster and refuses to take a dive. He follows the pugilist and his hot girlfriend to an amusement park where they hop on what looks like the park’s latest attraction, a UFO ride. Well, as it turns out, it’s a real-life flying saucer that winds up transporting the would-be parkgoers to a planet populated solely by sexy women.
Their plan is rather diabolical too. They want to steal the lungs of children to help them breathe in our atmosphere so they can take over the world. Luckily, a handsome scientist and his bumbling sidekick hop in a rocket ship and try to stop the aliens’ devious plot.
Planet of the Female Invaders is a sequel to Planetary Giants (which I haven’t seen). It’s sort of like a Mexican riff on Hollywood’s low budget sexy spacewomen movies like Cat Women of the Moon and Queen of Outer Space. It takes a little while to get off the ground (no pun intended), but it’s worth the wait once you realize that none other than Lorena (Santo vs. the Vampire Women) Velasquez is the one playing the sexy evil alien leader. As a bonus, she also plays her sexy goodie two-shoes twin sister who helps the earthlings escape! Seeing Velasquez in her regal form-fitting space queen outfits sharing the screen with herself as she wears her slinky sisterly apparel is quite a treat. She gives not one, but two great performances that will surely leave you seeing double. Because of that, the sluggish first act and the overlong boxing scene are easily forgiven.
Planet of the Female Invaders also contains a scene that is curiously prescient that’s worth mentioning at some length. Once the earthlings are brought to the sexy space gal planet, they are repeatedly told by their captors to wear a mask (that looks like a modern-day face shield) while on the planet for their own safety. Naturally, one dumbass ignores the rule and… well… you can probably guess what happens to him. It’s as if director Alfredo B. (Santo vs. the Martian Invasion) Crevenna predicted the anti-mask sentiment of the current lockdown. Of course, his vision of the future includes twin Lorena Velasquezes, which instantly makes the world the movie inhabits preferable to our own.
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