'She' is one of those eighties 'sword and sorcery' films that tried to ride the success of the 'Conan' films. There were quite a lot of 'Conan imitations' around that time - some played it straight while others embraced the silliness of it all. 'She' definitely falls into the latter. Although there aren't too many 'jokes' it seems to be self-aware of how daft it really is.
It's set in your typical 'post apocalyptic' world where what little there is left of humanity seem to live in various tribes. One tribe (the bad ones!) raid a community and kidnap a woman. Her brother and his friend set out to get her back and, in doing so, come into contact with the leader/Goddess of another faction, known as 'She.' Together they all team up and... well, much of the film consists of them getting captured by one crazy gaggle of weirdos after another - each lot having more bizarre costumes which seems to come right out of a charity shop or thrift store. My favourite lot were the ones who looked like a team of 'Dengars' (if you know your random 'Empire Strikes Back' trivia).
To pad out the runtime there's plenty of - seemingly random - rock music to crank up the tension, even when it's not really applicable. Perhaps the weirdest scene was the 'bridge crossing' which arrives about three quarters of the way through. Here we stray off into something akin to 'Monty Python,' only with possibly the most annoying character I've ever seen (think worse than Jar Jar Binks and that bloke out of 'The Fifth Element' who's name currently escapes me, but he was a space DJ or something).
It's a little on the long side, but it's silly enough to make it entertaining, even if it's only from the sheer randomness of the ride. One you can have on in the background and still not really miss anything.
5/10
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