kitschy?

I didn't mean to imply that this film was as enjoyable as the other two, just that they seemed to share a lot of elements -- they're all outré, fantastical films backed by pseudo-operatic music. Frankly, I found much of this film mystifying and inscrutable, and one year later, I am not eager to re-watch it to try to understand it better. I think it suffers from lacking the self-conscious irony that "Rocky" and "Flash Gordon" had, although perhaps some subtleties were lost in the translation from the French.

Yo mamma.