Lovejoy (TV Series) Montezuma's Revenge (1991) User Reviews

Montezuma's Revenge

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 6 April 2023]

Eric comes across part of a pre-Columbian solid gold statue. It also has an Inca curse on it.

Eric is looking to see how much it is worth, it belongs to a member of a rock band. Lovejoy becomes involved and immediately gets an offer from a local antique dealer. Lovejoy realises that it will be worth more at auction.

Despite scoffing about the Inca curse. Lovejoy finds himself in a whole heap of trouble. Two people are found dead, including the member of a rock band.

There is a woman from South America who has an interest in the statue as well as the manager of the rock band.

Lovejoy needs to find the other half of the statue and get to the bottom of the curse.

A good romp. It is a story where you just know that the manager of the rock band is up to no good and is bound to be the villain. Eric is the fall guy for everyone, even when Lovejoy and Tinker frighten him over the curse.

Meanwhile Lady Felsham gets too flirty with Lovejoy, maybe her husband is up to no good.

Spooky

[keysam-02610 · 8/10 · 10 May 2024]

First of all, it feels like Trevor Byfield has played a few rock managers/promoters. It's probably not as many as I think! It's an interesting role to get typecast in though, if he did.

Anyway, the main plot is about a gold statuette which may come with a curse. It certainly does seem to be followed by sad occurrences. It's also followed by a beautiful woman, which is more interesting to Lovejoy than a curse!

The sub-plot is that Alexander has told Jane he's off to Paris on business, but then unfortunately she spots him when she's shopping in Cambridge and he's got an attractive woman on his arm. She finds out they spent the night at a hotel there - although there's no indication they shared a bedroom. This leads Jane to consider kicking over the traces herself, with Lovejoy. Unfortunately, (or perhaps not), Lovejoy is distracted by Rosita the beautiful South American and he barely notices what poor Jane's up to.

When they do get close, they're interrupted, because for the second episode in a row, Lovejoy has the police on his tail.

Rosita seems like she might be a 'shady lady from....er, Bogota', but in the end she turns out to be OK. Well, mostly OK (poor Eric).

It's rock manager Jeff (Trevor B) who turns out to be the villain, faking wanting to sell the figure in order to find out where the raft part is, so he could get that back and flog the whole thing for money to pay off drug dealers.

Alex' lady friend turns out to really be a business deal too, so that's OK as Jane hasn't managed to do anything she might come to regret (& Lovejoy's none the wiser that she was trying to!)

Happy endings all round, except for the poor bloke who was going to auction the figure for Lovejoy.

Good episode.