Monday, July 9, 2007

Beauty School (1992)


Another non-hit from the folks who keep bringing out those new Marilyn Chambers movies, Private Screenings. Even Marilyn was nowhere to be found when they made this one, though, so they had to rely on the sheer star power of badly-aging 1970s Euro-sex queen Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuelle). Well, good luck. Kristel peaked in 1981 with the horny-teen classic Private Lessons, and has been in serious decline ever since. And, although very beautiful, she never could act. Unlike Marilyn Chambers and many of her fellow fallen sex goddesses, Sylvia has apparently failed to heed the call of the plastic surgeon's trusty knife...so she looks like a naked 50-year-old woman here. Anyway, the story is a ridiculous bit of froth about "Bra King" Otis P. Otis and his search for the perfect pair of breasts to represent his product. Dumb. Incredibly, resoundingly dumb. Kristel, of course, plays herself. Former 1970s porn star Jane Hamilton (a.k.a. Veronica Hart) appears to be attempting an emarrassingly extended Elvira impersonation thoughout the film. 75% of the film takes place in a club called Goldfinger's, for which this appears to be an extended commercial.

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