Simply Perfect

i must have seen a different film!!

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

VIDEO VIXENS! is one of the dumbest softcore sex comedies I can remember watching. The thrust of the film is that a money-hungry TV producer decides to hold his own adult awards designed to showcase the best in stag cinema. The majority of the film's running time is made up of said awards playing out, interspersed with short films and spoof adverts advertising various sex-related products.And this really is a dumb film. I didn't laugh once as the jokes fall flat over and over again. When the subject of rape is played for laughs you know your film is in trouble and thus VIDEO VIXEN! has an offensive and demeaning quality to it. Many of the sex scenes involve violence or aggression towards women which also leaves a bad taste in the mouth. There's ample nudity here but also a lot of bad acting and a general aimless feel that makes it tough to keep your attention.

Sophomoric romp is fairly enjoyable if you're looking for non-intellectual locker room humor and the female mystique as the chief components to a movie. There's plenty of wiggly-jiggly juvenile delinquency in VIDEO VIXENS, a threadbare story which centers on the network broadcast of the first international Stag Film Awards. Playing off this one-joke premise, there's really little more to mention. Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith is luscious as ever in a mock commercial spot endorsing a feminine hygiene product called "TwinkleTwat", and this bit is about as good as it gets...all-in-all, it's not exactly something to seek high and low for, but seeking low is more likely going to lead you to this film if you really feel compelled.4/10

Clearly one expects a film like this to be at or near the bottom of the barrel. As a frame of reference, to better understand the range quality, to try the taste of beans after days of filets, one might occasionally sample a film that you expect to be bad. What one may be surprised to find out, as I was, is that for some films, like this one, the barrel has one bottom. There is no explanation, no description, no criticism that could impart the full measure of this movie's utterly astounding baseness. Whatever makes Plan 9 from Outer Space a loser and be found in spades in this gem of tasteless tripe. I am burning my copy so that one else might make the same mistake I did. There are better ways to test quality.

Video Vixens is one of the funniest sexploitation comedies around. Norman Field (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, The Godson) is WKLITT television executive Clifford Bradley, paranoid of a conspiracy to deprive Americans of their sexual desires via added ingredients in the soap. He decides to cancel regular programming and put on a stag film awards show to reinvigorate America's sex life. George "Buck" Flowers (Taking It Off) as porn auteur Rex Boorski, is put in charge of making it all happen. Especially notable is Harrison Phillips as Gordon Gordon, film critic for Bradley's station, who is as prude as they come! He is ordered, much to his own mortification, to host the gala event. All three give incredibly tight performances. If you can get past the jokes about rape, something one is expected to do in films by Almodovar and Waters, Video Vixens works well even as a commentary of modern television twenty five plus years after its initial release. Broadcasting the Porn Academy Awards is not that far off in a society where a lesbian kiss on Ally McBeal gets high ratings and the use of four letter words and bare buttocks qualifies as breakthrough television. Plus the commercial and film parodies work well within the structure of the plot (like those in Putney Swope). Add to all of this the star power of sexploitation veterans Marie Arnold, Sandy Dempsey and Rainbeaux Smith, this film not only delivers the skin but also an entertaining plot and plenty of laughs to go along with it. That's something even Gordon Gordon would approve of!