psychotronicbeatnik When the nefarious mad scientist, Mano Negra, and his supercharged masked midget wrestling henchmen, kidnap and freeze dry several beauty contestants it's up to Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras and their other motorcycle-riding masked compadres to save them. Fighting on land, sea, air and highways across Mexico, they narrowly manage to defeat the evil ones and win the hearts of the beauty queens for themselves. Everybody is cool in this one, but Mil Mascaras steals every scene he's in with his multiple mask changes, and is the poster child for swanky luchadores everywhere in his zebra-striped mask and matching motorcycle jacket which he wears during one exciting chase scene. The nonstop cool jazz score had me finger-popping throughout.This ultra-cool lucha libre flick es una grand mêlée from beginning to end.

dbborroughs I'm going to give you a simple test to see if you'll want to see this film. Don't worry it's a simple test that requires a simple yes or no question.Do you like the idea of a mad scientist having an army of midgets in red spandex with matching masks and capes? If you said yes then continue reading this movie is for you, if not come back tomorrow for our next film, you're the wrong audience.Champions of Justice is as silly as my question sounds. It's completely off the rails and then some…and yet it's a great deal of fun.The plot has something to do with the scientist trying to take over the world with his super powered army of little people. He's amped them up with one of his gadgets and even the smallest of them can take on one of the biggest wrestlers, which is good because his opposition is an army made up of wrestlers including Mil Mascaras and The Blue Demon.I can't really go into the plot since I was watching the film without subtitles so I was lost as to the details of what was going on. On the other hand it's more than obvious who the good guys are and who the bad guys are so it's easy to follow the bigger picture.(and as with most over the top movies it's sometime best not to deal in the details since they only make things even sillier) I really liked this film a great deal. It's wonderfully non-taxing and the sort of thing you turn off and just sort of let was over you in the best sort of vaudeville boo hiss sort of away.I would call the film a glorious guilty pleasure, but as someone more respected than myself once said no pleasure is guilty.

poe426 Maybe it takes the kind of sensibility that's been honed by a lifetime (mis)spent reading comic books to truly appreciate a movie like CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE. On the face of it, it's absurd- but in a comic-book fashion that's every bit as vital as any other kind of movie. Over the top? I gotcher "over the top" right here, pal. But who can deny that it's just plain cool to see five masked superheroes cruising down the highway on motorcycles- or to see them gathered in the ring together to take on any and all Comers...? It does a fanboy's heart good to see a movie like this- something so totally what it IS that it doesn't apologize for it in any way, shape or form. In its own way, CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE truly transcends the medium. The follow-up, THE RETURN OF THE CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE, wasn't bad- but it couldn't top the original. Few movies can.

ONenslo There is hardly a slow moment in this remarkable film, with one darned thing after another the whole time. From the obligatory wrestling match at the start it's all action with a little man in scarlet tights and cape unfolding his portable radio into a machine gun, and blasting away at the ring. A mad scientist's army of masked Midget Wrestlers kidnaps contestants in the Miss Mexico contest to be frozen and shipped off in crates. The little men are put under a sort of compression dome and given electric bracelets, making them unusually strong and able to wail the tar out of the Champions of Justice. The villains' car is equipped with machine guns in front and oil slicks in back, sending Mil Mascaras on his motorcycle over a cliff to dangle for his life. Blue Demon plunges out of an airplane with its pilot and rides the parachute to the ground, there is an exploding boat and spear-gun wielding frogmen. And that ain't the half of it. It's certainly the best, and probably the best budgeted, Masked Wrestler movie I have seen yet, and one that didn't require me to fast forward through long minutes of tedious explanation or flat and uninspired fight scenes. If you see only one Mexican Wrestler movie in your entire life, make it this one.