Best movie ever!

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The Abductors: 8 out of 10: Lets face it some bad movies age better than others. From the wonderfully horrible fashion and hair worn by the leads to décor including shag carpets (that they actually shag on) and chintzy coconuts holding push pins. (in the bank presidents office no less) the Abductors is filled with seventies kitsch. It also has an attitude towards woman so politically incorrect they would burn down the theater today. (Great film to show during a Take Back the Night meeting just make sure you park away from the ensuing riot.) The Abductors is a bit like a feminist raison de ere. Like any good exploitation film there is a ton of nubile flesh on display. The Ginger films add bondage, rape and generally cruelty that separates it from the cheerleader and nurse pictures that were its competition at the seventies drive-in. In addition the girls are silicone free with tan lines to boot which I admit I find more appealing than the cookie cutter Playboy models of today's exploitation.Downsides include remarkably incompetent gunfights (the prop guns don't fire on cue) and the state police (who look Canadian for some reason) are out of a thirties gangster movie (Complete with a Tommy gun that smokes like a Cheech and Chong extra.) Strange pacing including a gratuitous drum solo and maraca-shaking scene. (No really Ginger brought her own maracas to the disco) and a lead actress Cheri Caffro who looks like a hooker a few years past her prime complete with pancake make-up (The other lead actress Jennifer Brooks is so hopelessly nubile Caffro looks like her mom.). Great flick to watch while the significant other is out of the house (preferably safely out of town.) The Ginger films like that other exploitation classic I Spit on Your Grave is a viewing pleasure best kept close to the vest.

Cannibalism and the white slave trade are two subjects that hold a prurient vicarious fascination for many young people and when either is featured in a film it will usually guarantee at least a limited measure of success at the box office as long as the movie is reasonably competently produced. There have been a long string of such films going back to silent movie days and stars such as Rudolph Valentino. Many young women going abroad for the first time have confessed to experiencing fantasies in which they either find that they are destined to become part of the diet of some savage captors, or that they have been allotted to a place in the harem of some secluded middle eastern or oriental despot with little prospect of ever escaping. Both situations have certainly occurred on occasion in the past, in the latter case there are a few well documented stories of women who have created themselves very successful lives and become famous in the process. However in my opinion, it is stretching fantasy too far to contemplate a school in a secluded part of North America where girls abducted from their families are forcibly trained to be the willing "companions" of successful business men who are queuing up to pay very large sums of money to purchase their own complaisant "sex slave". Admittedly police records show that there have been some cases where girls who were forcibly abducted have developed a relationship with their captors such that they make no effort to escape even when this becomes possible; but such a situation seems unlikely to develop in more than a limited number of cases; and what very successful businessman would be prepared to rely on his purchase not being one of those who eventually seize an opportunity to escape, in the process putting him behind bars for a large part of the remainder of his life? Nevertheless this is precisely the scenario for "The Abductors (1972)'', the second of the "Ginger" films. In general I do not usually enjoy films which are pure fantasies (such as the later James Bond films), or which stretch the bound of credulity too far, and this reduces the rating I might otherwise give the film. However it is probably the most coherent and sophisticated of the three films in the "Ginger" series and, once the viewer has accepted its basic premise, the story unfolds with fewer gaps or holes than in the other two films. It is nevertheless almost the ultimate in soft porn sexploitation, and anyone considering viewing this film for the first time is entitled to have some idea of what to expect. - SPOILERS AHEAD - It opens with the abduction of three young cheerleaders who are forced at gunpoint to undress in front of their captors and then told they are to be trained to become the sex toys of rich men. The cost of refusal would be torture, and a curtain is drawn aside to give them a glimpse of an earlier recalcitrant captive being tortured. Still obdurate, this girl is later raped (quite graphically on screen), after which she gives no more trouble. The good guys set up another girl as a decoy to lead them to the scene, but they lose track of her after she is captured and also facing the worst. Three rich men (looking in some ways rather more like College nerds than powerful business men) are taken to the hideaway to claim the three captured cheerleaders they have "bought" but this still does not alert the good guys to its location, and almost in despair Ginger herself then becomes a second decoy to be abducted in turn. This leads to a barnstorming climax where the good guys finally locate and attack the hideaway just in time to save the day. Surprisingly this is not the finale, this film still has one more twist, probably intended to add a little more credibility to the story. It is all meaningless, empty of real characterisation, and without any social value; but it hardly misses a trick and is fun to watch for those who occasionally want to relax and enjoy a pure fantasy of this kind. It features enough bondage to make it politically incorrect for the mainstream cinema today, and so there are not many new releases which compete with it in this respect; DVD copies of this 30+ year old film will therefore probably continue to sell for some time to come.

I'm rather defending my 8 star valuation of the original adult film, shown in the Eastern Coast of the USA and Canada in 1972. Unfortunately, the poor video copy currently available does the original no justice, either by careless editing, and softening the excellent topless woman-to-woman and mixed fights it had.

This is the second film in the "Ginger" series, and Bridgette Bardot look-alike Cheri Caffaro is back, this time as a private investigator hired to infiltrate a ring of white slave traders.The film opens with a blonde woman (we'll call her a "stewardess"), wearing only her panties with her arms shackled behind her back, being thrown in a small cell. Next, 3 blonde girls (we'll call them "Cheerleaders") are kidnapped and taken to a strange building where they are stripped down to their panties and have their arms shackled behind their backs (seems to be a recurring pattern). They are then told by the kidnappers that they are going to be used as sex slaves, and when the girls resist they are turned to face a curtain. The chief bad-guy pulls back the curtain and behind the glass we see the stewardess suspended like a hammock in the air, still wearing her panties but squirming quite a bit. It seems that the stewardess had resisted the bad-guys, too. Shocked at the sight, the girls cower and agree to become sex slaves. The reason why the girls were allowed to keep their panties on? As a sign of their submission, they must present their panties to the kidnappers.Ginger is called onto the case to track down the disappearance of the females, and she launches her investigation by becoming bait for the kidnappers (well, actually she gets another girl to be the bait but they both end up getting kidnapped). At various points in the movie Ginger and her sidekick end up naked, bound, and having sex with the kidnappers. But don't worry, our hero always gets her man.This installment of the series is much better than the first film ("Ginger") since it had a higher budget to work with. More money = more chicks, more bad guys, more "B" movie bondage/adventures. And since this film was made before the age of silicone implants, they're real (and they're spectacular).In today's period of conservative politics, feminism, Moral Majority, and sexual restraint (a by-product of the AIDS scare), it's a pretty good bet that no movie series will ever be made quite like the "Ginger" series. Sure, there are X-rated bondage films out there, but none will ever be the "B" movie fare that this film series is.