Russ Meyer's last feature and it was a hard slog to get through. It's comic sex antics in a small town - Meyer said it was his spoof of Our Town complete with a narrator (actually there's two - Meyer regular Stuart Lancaster, and a deejay played by Ann Marie.
It's a series of gags and sexual encounters, mostly revolving around an insatiable wife played by Kitten Natividad and her husband Lamar who only likes anal sex.
Natividad is like many Meyer heroines - busty, of course, and keen on sex, absolutely, but also with a girl next door niceness. She throws herself into the role and always seems to be having a good time and is the best thing about the movie about from the attractive girl who plays the dentist's nurse.
The film is pretty stupid. Roger Ebert co wrote it but there is none of the cleverness of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - no plot, really, no interesting characters or dialogue. Meyer repeats himself - there's Martin Borrmann, Greek choruses. It's like an assembly of comedy sex scenes that an ex GI might find funny. When watching this I kept imagining rednecks chortling, going "haw haw haw".
There are a lot of vagina insert shots and also a fair few penis inert shots. There's heaps of comic rape - I don't recall any movie that had more comic rape than this one. Natividad rapes her husband then he rapes her, then she rapes a guy who turns out to be 14. Lamar rapes the dentist's nurse and the gay dentist tries to rape him and June Mack (a hugely endowed older black woman) rapes Lamar.
There's lots of sex scenes but its all quick cuts and comically done. Like many Meyer scenes the one really consensual believable hot
encounter is the lesbian one - between Natividad and the dentist's
assistant. But even that keeps being interrupted.
It was wearying.
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