Robert Aldrich’s last film was a good enough one for him to go out on, though not a commercial success – a bawdy feel good comedy about a girl wrestling team an their dodgy manager. Peter Falk is in good form as the manager and the two girs played by actors never seen before or since are quite good. A simple structure – a series of adventures on the road, ending in the Big Game in Las Vegas. The final match is extremely rousing. But at the end of the day it is about wrestling – it’s not real. Aldrich’s anti-authority element shows in the finale where the girls beat up the ref. Exploitative, too, in parts: in a scene where one of the girls has a cry, Aldrich films her topless in a shower.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Movie review - "California Dolls" (1981) **1/2
Robert Aldrich’s last film was a good enough one for him to go out on, though not a commercial success – a bawdy feel good comedy about a girl wrestling team an their dodgy manager. Peter Falk is in good form as the manager and the two girs played by actors never seen before or since are quite good. A simple structure – a series of adventures on the road, ending in the Big Game in Las Vegas. The final match is extremely rousing. But at the end of the day it is about wrestling – it’s not real. Aldrich’s anti-authority element shows in the finale where the girls beat up the ref. Exploitative, too, in parts: in a scene where one of the girls has a cry, Aldrich films her topless in a shower.
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