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Weirder than you could ever imagine, 5 August 2003
Author: massiveapple from London

It's your unfriendly neighbourhood Spiderman! But he's green! And he's in Turkey! And he's ripped a hole in his mask so you can see his bushy eyebrows! And he can't shoot webs anymore! Or climb up walls! Peter Parker must have been bitten by ANOTHER radioactive spider or something, presumably while on holiday in Turkey, because suddenly he's EVIL and likes nothing better than chopping people up with a knife, skewering them in the shower, and, especially, doing lame ass kung-fu on them.

You know this film is going to be amazing when - BEFORE THE OPENING CREDITS - Spidey buries a girl up to her neck on the beach, then gets two blokes in a boat to reverse the outboard motor blades into her face. Seems the cops were right all along to be suspicious of that ol' web-slinger. Then those opening credits -- photographs (like actual paper photographs) taken on the set have been stuck on a wall next to fridge-magnet letters spelling out the title, and the camera zooms away from them very quickly...this passes for special effects in 70s Turkish cinema. The theme tune has exactly the same melody as "Diamonds Are Forever". There is no Turkish word for "copyright violation" - as if the psycho slasher Spiderman wasn't proof of that already.

As if that wasn't enough, wait -- Evil Spidey is terrorizing Istanbul, so who's the best person to call to deal with the problem? Captain America of course! (well it makes more sense than trusting in the hapless raincoated detective who gets sliced up by Spiderman - who then looks into the camera and says "ho ho ho ho ho. Adios!") Oh, and also Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler. Santo is a trifle fatter than his Mexican version, but at least his blank face mask can be replicated easily - Captain America is a tougher task for the costume designer (who, looking at the costumes, is almost certainly the director's mum). He has the "A" on his head, but he has no shield -- then again, Spidey has no webs, so that evens things out.

You have to see this movie. If necessary, go to Turkey to see it. Even better than the notorious Turkish remake of "Star Wars", and a 500% improvement on the recent Hollywood Spiderman. Did Spidey gruesomely murder a lovemaking couple in that movie? Well exactly.

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Yikes! Must Be Seen To Be Believed, 21 October 2003
9/10
Author: shark-43 from L.A. CA

What a movie! The turks in the 1970's would put any bit of any country's pop culture and whir it in a blender and shoot it. This film has a homicidally insane Spiderman in a costume that looks like the director's elderly mother made with a rusty sewing machine and poor eyesight. Another great scene - the guy who is Capn America stops and talks on the side of a busy road WHILE CHANGING INTO HIS CAPTAIN AMERICA SUIT!!!(so much for secret identity) There is awful fight scenes - truly so bad that you laugh your head off. The clothes and hairstyles are stunningly ugly. Amazing. For true cheese lovers. Recommended!

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Captain America and Mexican wrestler Santo battle an evil Spiderman in Istanbuhl. * Warning! Not suitable for children!, 12 October 1999
Author: haagis (saintsammy@hotmail.com) from Canada

Priceless statues are being stolen all over Istanbuhl(?). Looks like the work of that infamous, murdering Spiderman. The police call in special outside help in Captain America from the United States and the legendary Mexican wrestler Santo.

It's anyone's guess why Spidey's turned to a life of crime, what the significance of all the stolen art is, or if those are his bangs or his eyebrows sticking out of the holes in his mask. He's also traded-in his web-shooters for a slick little switch-blade,and can quickly clone himself if he's killed (that part gets real tiresome after a while). Captain America is missing his trusty shield and Santo's wrestling skills resemble Flintstone judo.

In fact, nothing seems to make sense at all in this live-action cartoon that makes Tim Burton's 'Batman' look as tame as the 60's TV series. Dozens of people are killed needlessly, sudden jump-cuts take you to sleazy strip clubs, and there's a love scene that's interrupted by the Mr. Rogers' puppets. Even worse, it's all in Turkish. No version in English or English subtitles is available. I'm not painting a pretty pictures here, I know. But I can say it is, without a doubt , one of the BIGGEST film oddities the world over.

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In Turkey Captain America and Santo battle Spiderman, 20 September 2005
5/10
Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York

Turkish cinema, gotta love it. Where else in the world can you get copyright infringement films that make you smile from ear to ear? In this film Marvel Comics hero Spiderman becomes a bad guy trying to take over the world. He is battled by Captain America (in possibly the best suit every put on screen) and Santo, the Mexican wrestler and movie star. The action is great as is some of nastiness that Spidey inflicts on his victims (The opening boat propeller to the face is a nice touch). As Turkish superhero movies go its pretty good, though the print I saw was sans any English so it was hard to know what was going on and it made the dialog scenes drag.

Not the best of the Turkish cinema I've run across, and certainly not the worst. If you run across it and are curious about the madness that Turkish film makers have unleashed on their audiences give it a try. Also give it a try if you're a comic book fan who worries what Hollywood will do to your favorite creation. One Look at this film and you'll never complain they got something wrong again.

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Spider Man is killing people with his fantastic superpowers! Er, switchblade., 31 October 2002
Author: Keith Stevens (cornjob-2) from Indiana, Pennsylvania

So here's an odd movie. Spider Man is a bad guy. And his mask is radically different. And he has these massive eyebrows--or maybe they were antenna? Anyhow, this has nothing to do with everybody's favorite webslinger. Technically, he is called Spider Man and kinda dresses like him, but instead uses the awesome powers of a switchblade to kill people and steal statues. Oh, and I think he can clone himself whenever he dies. Maybe. Didn't make much sense at the time.

Come to combat this villain are the awesome duo of Captain America and El Santo. For those of you not up on your lucha libre, El Santo is the most famous Mexican wrestler of all time, having starred in approximately 100 movies in his forty-year career. The silver-masked man revealed his identity only a month before he died and was laid to rest in his cloak and cowl. Anyhow, they're fighting Spider Man. At least Captain America (not an American by any means) is, since El Santo isn't in this too much. After a few rumbles, good is triumphant.

Worth a see? Definitely, if you like your cheese thick and incomprehensible (as detailed previously, there are no English dubbed or subtitled prints). It's no classic, but it is fun if you've got a wad of meat in each shoe (I never did understand that saying). Don't look too hard, but if you're in the back of a small, locally owned video store and this falls off a shelf onto your head, rent it.

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Classic Spoof, 31 December 2005
6/10
Author: morton grimp

This is a favorite among cult film fanatics. It starts off with a very bloody scene of Spiderman and his henchmen murdering a woman with a boat propeller. Spiderman continues to murder people, and steal valuable artifacts. Captain America and Santo are called in from the Americas to hunt down the evil Spiderman.

The fight scenes in this are both very good, and somewhat corny. There's a very strange scene where a man is tortured using a hamster (I won't give details, just watch it). I don't speak Turkish at all, so I didn't understand much, but it's still a very fun movie. There have been many movies made in Turkey doing parodies or just simply Turkish versions of American movies and TV shows. This one is a must-see. It is absolutely nothing like any of the Marvel or DC movies or shows that have been released. Santo and Captain America don't seem to care much about their secret identities in this, but we never do get to see Spiderman's face.

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Deep within Turkey..... a woman's purse, Captain America, flag on the moon., 7 April 2007
3/10
Author: Celluloid_Rehab (lelnu@yahoo.com) from Hell's Kitchen, NYC

One of the most auspicious movie starts in history, yet a walk in the park for movies coming out of Turkey. I thought I had seen everything Turkey had to offer. From Turkish Star Trek and Star Wars to Turkish Superman to Turkish Young Frankenstein. I was not prepared for a mostly green Spiderman, with a red hood and giant, untrimmed eyebrows.

This isn't your Marvel Spiderman though. Turkish Spiderman is leader of a gang. His whole racket involves smuggling artifacts from Turkey to the US, selling them cheaply to dealers and then buying them back with fake money. The opening scene is of Spidey and his gang building a hole in the sand, dropping some woman in a night gown into it and then pushing a boat (the motor is on, propeller spinning) into her face. The Spider (as he is called in Turkey) has no powers whatsoever. He knows movie martial arts, is quite the escape artist and tends to sneak up on people. His primary weapons include a 2-inch knife, a shower head, shish-kabobing people and a complicated torture device involving hamsters. Welcome to Turkey !!

Aytekin Akkaya is Turkish Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America (minus a shield which would have cost extra). You may remember him from Turkish Star Wars. Sadly I cannot forget seeing his shirtless performance as he bounced around on the screen. His partners include a luchidore who stores everything in the crotch of his tights and a female secretarial assistant (who does most of the undercover work). Their mission is to stop the Green menace (thank you Jonas).

This is truly an exercise in Turkish 70's film making. Turkish movies often remind me of the old movie serials (Flash Gordon, Batman and Robin,etc). They seem to be made on the cheap, poorly edited, poorly acted and done very quickly, often with little regard for intellectual property (the music seems to be from a James Bond movie). It is as if this is Turkey's attempt at mimicking the exploitation movies coming out of the US and/or the martial arts movies coming out of Asia. Exploitation is definitely what this movie is going for. It has all the elements for grind-house: a striptease (with pasties), graphic violence, shower scenes in underwear, crappy disco music, sex and alcohol. Well what did you expect, Turkey is a much different place? What was tame for us was probably raunchy for them. Context people, context.

As with all the 70's Turkish movies I have seen, I cannot take them seriously. I find them quite amusing along with the lingering misogynistic undertones (seems like more women died in this movie than men). There also seems to be a lot of time spent in showing running, driving and chasing. If you have never seen a Turkish movie, try to get one with the appropriate subtitles. Understanding the dialog will only help you slightly, as the plots and edits are "complicated" (not to mention the cultural differences). I have seen Turkish movies without the subtitles and I can tell you it gets pretty confusing (Turkish Star Wars, I'm looking at you).

These movies would have been prime candidates for MST3k. If only that were still possible. Maybe in an alternate universe. Until then, make mine a double whiskey. It's for the pain.

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Not since "Turkish Star Wars" has a film made my jaw drop from being so confused, 28 December 2006
5/10
Author: TimothyFarrell from Worcester, MA

Not since "Turkish Star Wars" has a film made my jaw drop from being so confused. This film is likely to give the viewer a headache with the sheer ineptitude of what is presented on screen. This is similar to what a perverted yet naive fourth grader would devise, not to mention just as intelligent. The film is so bad yet so bizarre I couldn't turn my eyes away, no matter how much I wanted to. It has a badness that is beyond surrealism. The film is so alien to western audiences with its complete bastardization of our beloved comic superheroes. Despite how bad it is, the film never becomes boring.

Picture this: Apparently while vacating in Istanbul, Peter Parker was bitten by another spider, this one turning him into a total a-hole with a severe misogynistic streak. So who do we call in? Captain America and Santo the Mexican Wrestler! As bizarre as Santo's Mexican films were, they never reached the heights of lunacy seen here. All of this is unauthorized of course, as is the inclusion of a Frank Sinatra song at particularly bizarre moments. This film is, granted, not for everybody (few will probably be fortunate enough to track down a copy), but those interested by what they read or with any interest in the most berserk fringes of world cinema, dig in! As with all of Turkey's ripoff movies, the style can begin to wear a bit thin towards the end, but its so bizarre and unique its worth tracking down. (5/10)

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One of the Greatest Movies of All Time: NOW WITH English SUBTITLES!, 21 March 2006
10/10
Author: catpooptv (catpooptv@yahoo.com) from Boise, Idaho, United States of America

I love this movie. It is one of my all-time favorite films. Now, it is finally being released on DVD with English subtitles by Onar Films. Google Onar Films to order your copy in early April 2006.

3 Dev Adam is, of course, also known as "Captain America and Santo Vs. Spider-Man" here in the United States. When I first read the review for 3 Dev Adam I thought at first that there had to be some sort of mistake. It was like a dream come true for me. Captain America AND Santo?! AND Spider-Man?!

When I was a kid Captain America was my favorite comic book super hero and Santo was my favorite real life super hero/Mexican wrestler. Now, to finally have a chance to own a good copy on DVD with English subtitles and a bunch of extras... man, I can't wait.

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