Supervixens (1975)
Not up to Russ Meyer's usual standards, due to both an elongated running time that Meyer simply didn't have enough inspiration or incidence to fill it with (most Meyer movies run shy of 80 minutes; this one tops off at 105) and a strange tonal clash between the material and the way it's handled. Almost everyone in this film is rotten to the core, and even gestures of kindness eventually sour into anger and violence, yet the film still plays out in the traditional jaunty hyperbolic Meyer style. It's a mean and spiteful film trying to masquerade as a fluffy and silly one, and it makes for some singularly strange viewing. The last half hour is first-rate, but the rest not so much. Really for Meyer completists and Charles Napier fans and nobody else.
Grade: C+
Not up to Russ Meyer's usual standards, due to both an elongated running time that Meyer simply didn't have enough inspiration or incidence to fill it with (most Meyer movies run shy of 80 minutes; this one tops off at 105) and a strange tonal clash between the material and the way it's handled. Almost everyone in this film is rotten to the core, and even gestures of kindness eventually sour into anger and violence, yet the film still plays out in the traditional jaunty hyperbolic Meyer style. It's a mean and spiteful film trying to masquerade as a fluffy and silly one, and it makes for some singularly strange viewing. The last half hour is first-rate, but the rest not so much. Really for Meyer completists and Charles Napier fans and nobody else.
Grade: C+
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