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| AV Channel (Australia). Region 4, PAL. 4:3. English DD 2.0 Mono 106 minutes |
| The Movie |
| Cover Art |
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| Credits |
Director: Russ Meyer
Starring: Shari Eubank,
Charlie Napier, Uschi Digard, Charles Pitts
Screenplay: Russ Meyer
Country: USA |
Supervixens is an extremely unusual
film. What may at first come across as soft core
porn, actually has a pretty good story, and is a
hilarious, sexy and is a vicious satire of the times
in which it was made. Meyer took the similar themes
of his earlier film Faster Pussycat! Kill!
Kill! and took everything to a more excessive
level. The women are bustier, and regularly topless,
the violence more horrific and shocking, the chases
faster, the set pieces more rural and the obscure,
well, more obscure. With many deliberately scandalous
moments in this film, Supervixens is in a genre
all of its own…
Poor Clint Ramsey (Charlie Pitts) works in a
gas station while constantly being harangued by
his girlfriend SuperAngel (Shari Eubank) about
his infidelity. Finally, after one accusation
of infidelity becomes too much Clint goes home
to face his girl. The argument turns into a brawl,
to which the police are called by a neighbour.
The attending patrolman is one Harry Sledge (Charles
Napier), who takes a liking to SuperAngel himself,
and tells Clint to go back to work, and not to
leave town, just in case she wishes to lay charges.
A fidelity is crossed, and a murder committed,
forcing Clint to get out of town…and quick!!
He has many adventures across the land, usually
involving women with wobbling wonders, eventually
finding peace at SuperVixen's (Shari Eubank
again) garage, but will his serenity last…?
You think you know exactly what you are in for
the second the menu comes up for this film, a
wonderful rendition of one of the characters,
Super Lorna, who, once every couple seconds, has
her boobs bounce up and down to a cartoonish 'boing'
sound. While Meyer's subject matter may
not be to everybody's liking, his evolution
as a filmmaker has an interesting history. Serving
in World War 2 as a War Photographer, which you
can actually see in the Spielberg produced documentary
'Shooting War' (available on DVD with Saving Private Ryan), Meyer's
ability as a filmmaker may not be spectacular,
but his ability to tell an entertaining, if not
immature, story are evident. His editing of the
film is like the 'MTV style' of quick
cuts and extreme angles, but well before it became
cool, and then uncool, to do so. His ability with
the 'visual innuendo' is unsurpassed
in my modest opinion, and there are plenty of
them in this film. Surprisingly though, amongst
the gigantic breasts, the bad acting, the awful
dialogue, the repetition and the totally un-PC-ness
of the whole thing, there is actually a pretty
powerful and violent story lying hidden within.
The comedy elements, almost always involving sex
or breasts, leave you in a false sense of security,
and when the violence starts, it is so unexpected,
that that in itself makes it feel more extreme.
By the way, make sure you read all the names in
the end credits; it's a bawdy treat in itself. |
| Video |
| The quality of the visuals is far below average.
While the full-screen picture itself is clear and
the colours lively, the image has a constant barrage
of artefacts all over the screen, which never interferes
too much with the image, but to those that find
it annoying, will suffer through this film. |
| Audio |
| The soundtrack is excellent, a kitschy seventies
sound that suits the film perfectly. This soundtrack
is in mono, but suits the film perfectly. |
| Extra Features |
| Not many extras on this Meyer disc unfortunately.
The inside cover, like all of the Director's
Suite films of Meyer's so far, has a biography
on the inside cover of the amray DVD case.
The
commentary on this disc is done by the late great
Russ Meyer. Meyer's memory, as usual, is
good, and some of his behind the scenes tales
are funny and sometimes just disturbing stories
about filmmaking and the wheeling and dealing
that goes along with it. This commentary meanders
at time, and Meyer's tends to mumble a bit,
he starts some points but then trails off as he
becomes interested in watching the film himself,
which can occasionally be frustrating.
Theatrical Trailer (1 minute 59 seconds) which
is the usual Meyer advertisement, where you are
told the psychological and artistic interpretations
of the film, but maybe, just maybe deep down,
you might think the film is an excuse to see bouncing
bountiful beauties. In this trailer he is described
as the 'rural Fellini', and this film
is the perfect example of that.
This disc also has trailers for others in Madman's
'Director's Suite' line of films.
These include Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill!
Kill!, Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, Wong
Kar Wai's 2046 and Lucas Moodysson's
Show Me Love. |
| The Verdict |
Definitely a movie to watch with a female friend,
cause a man watching this film by himself may take
several goes to see it all the way through…it
you get where I am coming from….I mean if
you get my meaning…This is a busty film with
a voluptuous comedic script with a great underlying
sense of brutality to it…, oh, and there are
some girls with big boobies in it at well. The comedy
in it is certainly of the 'Benny Hill'
or "Carry On…' variety, but this
makes for a 'quaint and saucy' film
with a HUGE dose of sex and violence in it…
and at the end of the day, isn't that what
well ALL want? In my honest opinion, any cult movie
collection that DOESN'T have Russ Meyer's
films in it is not complete at all.
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