a5c7b9f00b FBI agent Brad joins Tony and Nick, the self styled Supermen who battle crime wearing bullet-proof super-suits. They are on a case involving radioactive counterfeit money and people who can be broken down into precious jewels. Brad McCallum, strongman and FBI agent, recruits two former friends to a shady operation destined to expose a counterfeiting crime ring who hides behind diplomatic immunity. The almost perfect dollar bills have traces of radioactivity, which allows a scientist to identify itthe product of a «universal duplicating machine» with the capability of cloning practically anything into anything else, except a human being. In the wrong hands, this presents a risk for the humanity. I love 1960s-style martial arts action, and the only thing THE THREE FANTASTIC SUPERMEN lacks is the obligatory &quot;hi-yah!&quot; This amusing comedy combines elements of BATMAN, THE GREEN HORNET, Mexican wrestling movies and spy-capers. Much of the humor might have been funny back in Europe in the 1960s, but it came offstupid or just plain odd when I watched the movie in America during the 1990s. Maybe they didn&#39;t have a budget to really develop the slapstick and satire into something honestly funny, or maybe the English dubbed version simply lost something in the translation.<br/><br/>Nick Jordan is particularly annoyingthe mute superhero, a role given to Salvadore Borgese in follow-ups (ironically, Borgese only cameos at the beginning of THE THREE FANTASTIC SUPERMEN,a bazooka-toting henchman). Jordan&#39;s superb acrobatic flips and mini-trampoline stunts really highlight the karate fights and help to elevate them above other martial arts of the period (i.e. THE AVENGERS &amp; WILD WILD WEST). I dare say thatfar1960s martial arts go, THE THREE FANTASTIC SUPERMEN&#39;s spats are second only to THE GREEN HORNET!<br/><br/>I won&#39;t go too much into the script; you&#39;ll just have to find this rare gem and see it yourself. For now, let&#39;s just say that FBI agents get their hands on these bullet-proof &#39;Superman&#39; (why Marvel never sue&#39;d them is beyond me!) outfits which turn common jewel thieves into acrobatic heroes! Some times our zany heroes are evading cops, some times they&#39;re thwarting a mad scientist and his &#39;human duplicating&#39; machine, and sometimes they&#39;re just being silly. They&#39;re never boring though (that doesn&#39;t happen until the movie&#39;s many sequels came along)! &quot;I fantastici 3 $upermen&quot; has the topic &quot;The Universal reproduction&quot;. My guess is that Mr. Gianfranco Parolini (aka Frank Kramer), with the duo Tony Kendall and Brad Harris, after filming &quot;Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill&quot;(1966), in the absence of a serious scenario, just to have fun, they decided to reproduce &quot;Batman: The Movie&quot;(1966). The costumes and the car are &quot;inspired&quot; from there. They used even the tunnel from &quot;Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill&quot;. Maybe back in the &#39;60s they had some fun, but today this attempt is not fun not even to the preschool age children. All the actors are pathetic. The whole thing is just a waste of time. Embarrassing!
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