Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties (1980) User Reviews

Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 16 February 2022]

A criminal organization somewhere in the Canary Islands with friends in high places is kidnapping famous women and selling them to their fans, which is pretty much the most illegal and immoral version of OnlyFans ever.

Who can stop them?

Two dancers - actually Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties - with the names of Cecile (Lina Romay) and Brigitte (Nadine Pascal) who are currently in prison, but the police ask them if they'd like to solve the case.

If all this movie gives you is Lina in high heels and a gold bikini being chased by a helicopter, is your life so bad?

Also: a magic ring that can hypnotize women.

I'd like to see the script to one of Franco's movies, because I can only imagine it says, "Diamonds are stolen. Strippers become detectives. Zoom in to honeypot. The end."

Another dud from Jess Franco

[gridoon2024 · 4/10 · 16 May 2015]

Ah, "Two Female Spies With Flowered Panties"! What could go wrong, right? Everything, as it turns out. The incredibly prolific Jess Franco was never a great director, but by the early 1980s it seem that he couldn't even be bothered to make the slightest effort anymore; he just threw some naked women on the screen and thought that would be enough. It's hard to know what's more boring in this movie: the endless rape scenes, the endless striptease scenes, the endless helicopter flying scenes, or the endless biker-hippie (!) scenes. To be perfectly honest, I was forced to watch parts of the film in fast-forward because I just couldn't bear it anymore; it didn't help much. Even if you are a fan of Franco, pick something else from his filmography - God knows there are other options out there!

EDIT: I just watched the Spanish version of this movie. It does seem to be somehwat different - there are no rape scenes, for example. It's still a boring action/sexploitation Franco hybrid, and I'm leaving my original comment untouched, but because it is more tolerable than another Franco film I watched recently, I'm changing my rating to *1/2 out of 4 stars. Lina Romay does have a voluptuous body.

A rollercoaster that rarely hits the heights ...

[parry_na · 5/10 · 6 July 2019]

Prolific Spanish Director Jess Franco's comedies are far from my favourite films: 'Kiss Me Monster', 'Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included' and 'Red Silk', to name but three, I find progressively challenging to sit through. It could just be that the humour is lost in translation. Whatever the reason, I much prefer his 'serious', more personal, projects.

'Two Female Spies', which begins very much as a comedy, features hapless strippers Cecille and Brigitte (Lina Romay and Nadine Pascal) who are released from prison in order to work undercover for the US Government. Pretty unbelievable, and presumably intended to be hilarious and farcical, their mission immediately takes on a far darker tone with the introduction of Adriana (Susan Hemingway), a very young-looking innocent who is hypnotised, kidnapped, tortured and in very protracted scenes, raped. That events continue to shift in tone in such a way throughout make this a truly unpredictable 96 minutes.

Always prolific, Franco may not have had the time to iron out a more consistent approach. Or, and this is not beyond the realms of possibility, the sudden lurching changes between silliness and horrifying cruelty might be entirely deliberate. In many ways, I like this discordance - you really don't know what kind of story you are delving into. In other ways, it does make for a very choppy experience. And of course, following rape and torture with jollity and titillation is deeply distasteful - but then, this is Jess Franco, who always thrived on being provocative. Problem is, that approach comes at the expense of an involving story, and sadly, 'Two Female Spies' proves to be an ultimately dull experience.

The character of Milton (Mel Rodrigo) is most changed by the various different edits of this film (although other characters are deleted altogether). Introduced as an effeminate homosexual, he proves to be the hero of the piece, before renouncing his old sexual ways and vowing to marry Romay's Cecille. The sight of Romay, dressed in very little but sandals and a shiny swimming cap, tottering over a rocky plain to a void a helicopter, is far from her greatest moment but once again proves that, whatever film she appeared in, she always entered into it whole-heartedly. Sadly her partner in this 'romp', Brigitte, succumbs to a fate which is probably the darkest moment this film has to offer. My score is 5 out of 10.

Fun Franco

[Michael_Elliott · 25 February 2008]

Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties (1980)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Two strippers (Lina Romay, Nadine Pascal) who are serving jail time are offer a chance out. The only catch is that they have to go undercover in a club and try to find out who has kidnapped a young girl (Susan Hemmingway). The young girl is being raped and tortured by her captives but have no fears as the strippers are on the case.

As far as Jess Franco films go, this here isn't anywhere near his best but at the same time there's certainly much, more worse out there. For the most part TWO FEMALE SPIES WITH FLOWERED PANTIES is middle tier Franco but there are certainly enough good moments to make it worth watching. The film is out there in a Spanish version as well as an English dub. It's best that you go with the Spanish track as the English dub is quite awful all around.

With that said, I think the film works best as a homage to the 1940's detective films, which is what the two ladies are basically playing here. If you're looking for a well-detailed story then you can forget it. This is Franco after all so there's not too much sense going on but instead we just get some really strange scenes and of course plenty of sex and naked ladies. Franco certainly doesn't hold back on the nudity as it's all over the place and there's a certain charm to the sexuality and especially with some of the really bad strip tease scenes.

Fans of Romay will certainly enjoy her performance here. I've always been a fan of Hemmingway and she appears here in one of her last movies. Who knows whatever happened to her but she's always fun for me to see. You've got some pretty weird scenes including one where Pascal rapes a gay man. This sequence is played for laughs and I must admit that it made me do just that. That stereotype voice and the scream that comes from him was just priceless.

With all of that said, the film certainly runs out of gas around the hour mark and the film flubs to the finish line. Still, fans of the director will find it worth watching.

Don't Watch The English Dub Version.

[richardtilley-76559 · 2/10 · 24 May 2023]

Jess Franco is never going to be regarded as a Kubrick but many of his films do have a certain something. On many occasions that 'something' was Lina Romay who always 'perked' proceedings up.

This isn't one of Franco's 'better' movies but it is ruined completely by one of the worst english dub tracks I've heard. I much prefer to watch films in the original language with subtitles and this proves why. The stereotypical voices, turgid screams and totally uninterested delivery just turns this in to a complete waste of time and effort

I've often wondered how many Cult films from the 60's/70's could be improved if they were re-cut with modern voiceover acting teams.

Sometimes the charm of a bad dubbing track can make a movie funnier but this one just made my teeth grate. It truly is horrendous.

I intend to seek out the Spanish version of this to see if it improves things.

"It's true,the instrument's just like a trombone!"

[morrison-dylan-fan · 7/10 · 9 January 2021]

Starting to get into viewings for 2021,I decided that one of the best ways to start the year off was by watching a "new" title from film maker Jess Franco. Taken by the title,I got set to meet two female spies.

View on the film:

Detailed in Stephen Thrower's superb book Flowers Of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema Of Jesus Franco as being one of the first titles the film maker made on his return to Spain,and at a time when his relationship to muse Lina Romay was starting to become serious, co-writer/(with Evelyne Scott,an actress from some of his past films,in her lone writing credit) co-editor/(with Roland Grillon)co-composer/(with regular corroborator Daniel White) directing auteur Uncle Jess follows the spies with his gloriously disincentive trombone zoom-in button-bashing.

Meeting Cecile and Brigitte, (played by a cute Lina Romay and Nadine Pascal) at the airport, Jess gets into a wonderful Jazz groove in a seedy underworld nightclub, (a major recurring setting in his works) sliding between a continuation of his interest in De Sade imagery with a striking set-piece involving a severed head (!),that glides to a a nifty Euro Spy-style chase from a helicopter across rugged terrain for the captive Estrella Shelwin (played by the alluring Doris Regina, (real name Teodora Segura)making her debut.)

Matching the beat of the stylised directing, the screenplay by Scott and Uncle Jess plays a wonderfully lively tune, that swings Brigitte and Cecile from flirty, Pop-Art strippers,to mad-cap underhanded spies, who in the murky underworld Jazz nightclub,go in search of painted panties.