In France, when a movie is so bad he becomes funny (unintentionally, it's important) we call it a "NANAR".And there's a real audience for this kind of movie (Ed Wood like). These movies are treasures because they become rare. Nowaday, the bad movies have at least decent SFX, decent editing, the directors have all followed a formation... But during the 60-70-80's absolute incompetent directors could make movies. So there is a bunch of them, but a limited bunch, and this one is famous.So if "Puma man" made me laugh and spent a good time, I must give more than 1 or 2 stars. And I must recommend it.My favorite quotes : Boss ! This man is FLYING like... Like ?.. ... like a PUMA !(Because, as everybody knows : the pumas fly.) LOL !;-))

A bunch of Aztec aliens make a tremendous navigation error in a giant flying humbug, in a deep north American accent, deposit a mind-controlling mask on what appears to be Stonehenge, England, now with a nice coastal view. To look after this, the fabled "Puma man" (constantly miss-pronounced, rather aptly, as "poo-ma man" ) is entrusted to prevent it from falling into evil hands. Alas, a team of archaeologists in bondage gear find the mask and set off on world domination.Need I go on? Nothing in this movie makes sense. Who cares if the hero's sidekick pushed a bunch of Americans to their deaths for no obvious reason! Poo-ma man's powers include dangling in front of London's skyline, posing like a squirrel and leaping around with 80's synthesized "boing" noises, and walking through walls - all the abilities you would expect from your average south-American feral wildcat.Oh what's the point of going on. This movie is so bad, it bounces off the bottom depths of the chasm of suckness back up into the realms of inadvertent hysteria. Cue 80's disco music and, "Poo- ma man, he flies like a mor-on!"

Below sewer-level movie, directed by Alberto De Martino and starring once-decent thespian, Donald Pleasence ("Fantastic Journey," "Halloween," "The Changing Of The Guard" installment of "The Twilight Zone") as the villain, and non-talents Walter George Alton (a person not worthy of one name, let alone THREE), Miguelangel Fuentes and Sydne Rome, among others, is so bad it's great (if that's conceivable).Minuscule plot has Alton as paleontologist, Tony Farm, who finds an ancient Aztec mask, and thanks to a huge, square-headed mongoloid (Fuentes, with a Moe Howard haircut) - who keeps following him - he reluctantly becomes Puma Man, one of the lamest super heroes since William Katt.Pleasence, playing another bad guy role, is just as lisping an inept as he was in all of his other movies. Needless to say, he and his moronic henchmen are out to retrieve said mask because it has the power to make people fly at odd angles and rip through cardboard sets.To say that this film is bad would be an insult to the term. Horrible, beyond ludicrous "special" effects, insipid acting, unbelievably stupid dialogue and cheesy 1970's TV soundtrack music make the entire enterprise unintentionally hilarious.And Alton's turn as the lead consists of an hour of wooden sleepwalking followed by an idiotic ten-second outburst. Ultimately, however, it's the block-headed Aztec who turns out to be the hero, and the concluding "battle" is the silliest since the end of "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians," or "Rocky V."

I-can't-stand-this-piece-of-garbage....That-really-messes-up-my-viewing-pleasure....That-is-called-the-Puma-Man....And-that-is-that-for-describing!!!!! Seriously, this movie is not that good. Not at all. I mean, we have to hear that awful theme song over and over again (that's a sign that a movie is true "Mystery Science Theater 3000" material - repeating or recycling music or footage) that sounds like a cross between "The Greatest American Hero" and "St. Elsewhere"; we have to see a lot of cheesy effects, and what else can I say? It's bad, bad, bad, bad, BaD!!!!! The only time I've seen this movie, fortunately, was on "Mystery Science Theater 3000." Mike and the Bots have done such an A+ job chewing this movie up and spitting it out!