Moon Maids
Mercy Johnson, Mike Ezuruonye, Tony Umez, Ofili Ugbor, Uche Ebere Agu, Ebere Okeke, Nene Ikhine, Nichole Banna, Gabriel Okorie, Lizzy Gold Onuwaje, Emma Emordi, Ebele Uche, Blessing Nwankwo, Chioma Chijioke, Austine Okwelum, Stino Iyke
A royal family is in great turmoil, when they discover that a deceased old woman has been reincarnated in their daughter as a moon maid, forcing her to denounce Christianity. They seek the help of a young priest, to fight this battle for them.
"You mean they took their manhood in their hand and put it inside their womanhood?"
Tchidi Chikere
Emeka Anene
Tchidi Chikere
2015
The premise of the movie actually seemed a bit promising. The new king of the land seeks to end traditional worship of the moon after his father passes so he destroys the last moon maid. Unknown to him, she has passed on the spectre to his own daughter (a person he can’t destroy). At the age of 30, she manifests as the new moon maid alongside some of the most prominent daughters of the land.
This is about where all the hope begins to vanish.
What is their aim? To return the land to the traditional worship of the moon. How do they hope to achieve this? By living in a hand made house in the middle of the bush, taking whatever they want and asking to daddy to pay for it while raping any man that they desire. (…..ok.)
Because there were a number of things wrong with this movie, we are going to go ahead and knock out the few positive things quickly. First it was a joy to see Mercy Johnson and Mike Ezuruonye in the same movie. No matter how evolved I get, the two of them on the cast list is always enough to hit play and they carry out their character roles to a Tee.
The only other positive (and possibly original bit) was the very very brief romance between the two at the end of the movie.
The story line of the movie, after the premise is established, becomes quite redundant. The fact is the soundtrack has already told you the storyline (and continues to tell you the storyline every 10 minutes) so what we’re watching is made even more redundant. It might have been a better movie if it had ended halfway through.
Then there was the issue of the directing and production or is it editing? (and I have quite a few qualms in this department). Maybe we might be willing to chug off the director’s desire to shoot his high angle shots through the leaves of a tree. We can call that a mistake. But why does the camera keep resting on Mercy’s breast? That’s one thing I don’t understand. When Mike, or any other character is in the frame, it might be excusable. But when there’s only Mercy in the scene, why is your camera panning through her boobs?
