Beautiful, moving film.
The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.
View MoreIt’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
View More.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
View MoreThis is my second Russ Meyer movie (the first being 'Up!') and I am beginning to see a pattern -- tell a non-nonsensical story full of the naked women. The naked-est and most beautiful of them all is Shari Eubank. She is one of the most gorgeous women I have ever seen, and we get to bask in her fullest glory. Aside from the T&A, Charles Napier is memorable as the main antagonist. He was born to play the douche-bag you'd love to see get run over by a truck. In the right state of mind, this is an enjoyable flick, but it helps to be inebriated.
View MoreAfter the brutal murder of his promiscuous wife, Clint (Charles Pitts) is forced to flee a small town Harry (Charles Napier), a wicked look-alike who committed the killing, had little trouble to put the blame for the murder on Clint Clint falls into a number of adventures, getting caught in the act with the mail-order wife of a farmer, having a brief affair with a chesty black mute girl, and finally coming across a diner/gas station run by a lonely but beautiful woman who turns out to be a copy of his former wife Clint stays on at the diner to help out the woman, and falls in love The assassin, however, passes through, discovers Clint, kidnaps his new girlfriend, and tries to kill them both The women in "Supervixens" are buxom, attractive, and very intelligent, whereas the men are generally sex-crazed, vicious, and uncoordinated... Meyer usually bombards his audience with erotic imagesbig breasts, strong desire women, and simulated lovemakingbut here he gets carried away with several sadistic scenes that are real turn-offs...
View MoreRuss Meyer is a truly original American filmmaker of the highest caliber. His films are filled with lightning-speed edits, larger-than-life characters, delicious women, and over-the-top acting. His movies are shining examples of wonderful exploitation. They are by no means 'high-art' and should not be judged as such. Myer masterfully puts his unique vision on the screen in all of his films, and 'SuperVixens' is a shinning example of this...This film starts off wonderfully, for it is incredibly entertaining and highly humorous (filled with VERY sexy women, large breasts, and lots of violence of course). It maintains a pretty rudimentary story-line, but that was never something that Meyer really pursued. He is more concerned with amusing characters, gorgeous women, and sweet violence, and this movie has plenty of that. Charles Napier gives one of his best performances ever here, as a psychotic, impotent, woman-killing cop. Shari Eubanks is dynamite and a vision to behold...My only complaint about this film is that it loses a bit of momentum after its blazing beginning. If you are into Russ Meyer you have undoubtedly seen this film- if you haven't, you must! The transfer to DVD is of a very high quality- the sound and picture and crystal clear. If you have never seen any of Meyer's films, this as good a place to start as any...
View MoreOnce Rem Koolhaas (know rather known as star architect who built the Public Library in Seattle or the Dutch Embassy in Berlin) wrote a screenplay for Meyer. It included some allusions to the German director Fassbinder. Although the project was never realized, one may find a kind of Fassbinder's style also in Supervixens. Some may consider this claim more or less blasphemous. Nevertheless, Meyer features a movie that is not entirely cheesy trash and cheap 70s soft-porn. It is much more: A satirical reflection of gender roles, for instance. While the women (with big breasts) are clearly depicted as agents of their sexual likings, the male characters do not seem to recognize these clear-cut own will and agency. It is this odd difference that contributes to the hilarious atmosphere in the first part of the movie and promotes its plot similar to a comedy of mistaken identity. However, to the end it is exactly the lack of this bizarre "spice" that makes the last half of Supervixens less colorful and even lengthy.
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