SHE (1965) **1/2 Pretty good Tarzan movie, except that there's no Tarzan in it. Instead we get some doofus who manages to ignore the Oo-Bla-Da Dancers long enough to make out with Rosenda Monteros in an alley. But then her cohorts knock him out and he ends up waking up and making out with Ursula Andress, incidentally the High Priestess of Isis. They're soulmates, or something, so she sends him off across the desert where he's abducted by a bunch of guys in black plastic James Brown wigs. Ursula becomes somewhat less alluring, to the point that she turns out to just be a (particularly hot) bitch who sits around all day in bird feathers, and thinks that she's "she who must be obeyed." Of course the fates carve out individual destinies, but I've seen variations on this happen to lots of guys. For those who insist on perceiving the entire thing as a commentary on the Egyptian Mystery Religions, it would appear that the magick is something less than complete, and otherwise leaves something to be desired.
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