Colorful but silly, this is one of those outrageous cheap films that has a lot going for it...as a delightful piece of trash! A cast of actors whose careers could be described as "never was" give hilariously bad performances with long dark haired women holding onto their hair as if they were shrouds. Tropical birds act as a Greek chorus and weak fat men act as comedy relief.White sandy islands are over abundant in this paradise of horny women searching for companionship. But be careful of what you wish for in the wilds of Wongo, and a battle between muscular strangers and equally determined ape men go after them with vigor and determination. I think somebody transfered the script from the brain of the squawking parrot because it really is a bird-brained idea in the first place. There is something about a couple of the bad actors playing the muscular natives which makes me think that they were more interested in each other rather than the women. Speaking each line as if it was recited from a Dick and Jane book, they are deliciously bad. This is up there with the best of the worst of Ed Wood's films and that on its own makes this worth watching.

I'm being generous giving it one star.Essentially, I've concluded that this was actually a Porn film with all of the Porn removed. It has to be. That can be the only explanation for the Put-On Performances, and the Shoddy Camera work as well as Choreography.The story has all of the contrivances of a bad porn film, that is certain. Along with the clear mismatch in ages for Father/Daughter relationships. (No, there are no subplots regarding that relationship, but it just doesn't work when you see it on camera.)Not even MST3K could make this watchable!

The only real question surrounding the wild women of wongo is if its classicly bad, It has many of the key elements. Most of the people in the movie ( I won't say actors ) are numb. There is a dance to the croc er dragon king thats pretty stupid cool,A fight between the wongo women and apemen where they keep touching weapons until one of the apemen falls in the water and is eaten by a croc er dragon. I say apemen only because that's what they are called. They don"t really look different from anybody else. There"s stock footage;a keymark of any so bad its good flick. Plenty of idiotic dialogue to more than fill the 70 min. run time. And the dragon queen would have swept razzies if they were around back then. However you get the feeling that the makers of this mess knew what a terrible film they were making' An aspect truly great bad movies don;t have. Don't get me wrong; there are plenty of laughs for a MST3000 type viewing (especially if your drinking )but its not the class of the great ones. And if you are reading a review of the wild women of wongo you certainly know what the great ones are.

Wild Women of Wongo, The (1958) ** (out of 4) As the film opens up a narrator tells us that some experiment was done on the island of Wongo. On that island all the beautiful women were given ugly men. On another island the beautiful men were given ugly women. When the ape people attack the two sides might come together so that the pretty can be with the pretty and the ugly with the ugly. Sound stupid? Well, it is and that's why this film came off mildly entertaining. The movie has the reputation of being one of the worst ever made and I won't argue that but at the same time it kept me entertained just because of how stupid it was. The movie even features some music that is best known from being used in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, which would be released the following year. I don't think it's ever explained why the looks of the people were mixed up to begin with but I'm sure it wouldn't have made any sense anyways. As is to be expected, the performances all are extremely bad and sometimes it does give us some laughter. The director does what he can with the material but the color is pretty good and the locations are certainly nice to look at. There's also quite a bit of footage of some of the wildlife and that's a plus. The movie doesn't feature too much of a story as we see women (or men) get kicked out of their tribes, have to find, look around, fight some more and then look around some more. Fans of bad movies will want to check it out but others should stay far, far away.