Memorable, crazy movie

An Exercise In Nonsense

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Blistering performances.

The chance to see a lot of celebrities in this film is reason enough to see this terrible film. I think a lot of these people signed for this film is a chance to really cut loose with some overacting and see who could ham it up the most.In this fantasy tale Ewa Aulin who never made it out of Swedish cinema to the international scene plays the title role. She plays teenage temptress who gets a whole lot of men into overdrive with their hormones. She's lovely to look at, but didn't make it in the talent department. A new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman she was not about to become.No reason to outline a plot. Along the way Candy meets such folks as Richard Burton, Marlon Brando, and Walter Matthau who just let it all hang out doing their various shticks.Marlon Brando said this was the worst film he was ever in. I wouldn't argue with him.

A film version of the notorious novel by Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg. Ewa Aulin plays the title role, a not-so-bright sexpot who happens to continually be in the wrong place at the wrong time, encountering one sex fiend after another, from Mexican gardener Ringo Starr(!) to military man Walter Matthau to creepy poet Richard Burton. It's not particularly funny but it is highly entertaining with an occasional glimpse of real wit provided by screenwriter Buck Henry. It's a rambling film and the cameos come fast and furious...Marlon Brando, John Astin (in 2 roles!), John Huston, Anita Pallenberg, Florinda Bolkan and Charles Aznavour. Directed (using that term very loosely) by actor Christian Marquand. It's photographed very lushly by Giuseppe Rotunno. It's low-rent LOLITA but still worth seeing.

This movie essentially begins with an attractive high school student named "Candy Christian" (Ewa Aulin) being caught in a compromising position due in large part to her innocent and trusting nature. Additionally, her good looks also had much to do with this as well. Be that as it may, each scenario in this movie has a least one character with just one sole purpose in mind—to get her between the proverbial sheets. And their desire to do so is limited only by the imaginative position that they find themselves faced with. Now as far as this movie is concerned it certainly had its share of major actors to include Marlon Brando (as the Eastern mystic named "Grindl"), Richard Burton ("MacPhisto"), Walter Matthau ("General R. A. Smight") and James Coburn ("Dr. A. B. Krankheit"). So fans of any of these fine actors should be pleased. On the other hand, this film is definitely dated to a certain period in American history that celebrated "psychedelic" movies of this type. Because of that, younger audiences may not be able to appreciate it as much as those who experienced this particular time. That said, while I thought it was somewhat entertaining for the most part, it also seemed more than a little uneven and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

Spoofing porn movies in the '60s was kinda like writing sci-fi in the 1800s - the genre in contention didn't really exist yet. Porn in 1968, pre-Throat/MissJones/Mona etc., hadn't yet developed the wah-wah guitar pizza delivery slo-mo money shot vocabulary we know and love to mock today. That said, tho, Candy has some funny moments, especially the ones taken directly from the Terry Southern novel the movie was based on.Beatleholics seek the movie out to see Ringo Starr as the perpetually confused houseboy Emmanuel. Candy gives Starr a terrific catchphrase that, despite his irresistibly deadpan delivery, never seems to have caught on. Other than at my house, where I STILL frequently say, at any given opportunity, especially when confronted by anyone about anything I've supposedly done to vex them, "Emmanuel GOOD boy!"