Frau Doktor kann's nicht lassen

Genuinely awful "comedy" entry in the Black Emanuelle series with Laura Gemser. Gemser is as lovely as ever, but the story is stupid and boring, the acting is amateurish, the dubbing uses hee-haw American accents for the rubes, and the sex is dull and not erotic.

Emanuelle is the new doctor in town, driving all the men wild, but not doing anything more sexy than showering near an open window. The townsfolk create their own romance, fumbling around in barns and boats in decidedly unsexy ways. When Emanuelle's boyfriend arrives, it starts a mistaken identity subplot that couples awkwardly with the main plot, which involves some sort of land rezoning scheme. If that sounds dumb, it is.

I give it a 2 only because no one crawls thru any ventilation ducts to escape from or gain access to a villain's lair.

This is the kind of movie that really tends to tick people off because it is greatly misrepresented by its English title. As other reviewers have said, this is NOT a "Black Emanuelle" film but one of a small number of Italian sex comedies "Black Emanuelle"-star Laura Gemser appeared in around that time (probably the most interesting being Jose Larraz's "Malizia Erotica"). Comedy was not really Gemser's forte, but then Italian sex comedies were really nobody's forte. A few actresses like Edwige Fenech had some small degree of comic timing, but for the vast majority, comic timing mostly involved how long it took them to strip down to the skin and how frequently they did it. These movies today are either in Italian only and really stupid, or dubbed into English and really, REALLY stupid. This one falls into the latter category (but tack on a couple more "reallys").

Gemser plays a female doctor from the city who moves into the country with her husband and drives all the country bumpkin stereotypes crazy. This is a pretty sorry portrayal of rural Southern Italy. (If people had seen something like this at the turn of the century, they would have had flotillas and gunboats stationed around Ellis Island to turn back southern Italian immigrants before they implanted their inbred yokel seeds here in America). This movie not only unfunny, it's painfully unfunny. The only good thing about it is Gemser. Naturally, it lacks the depravity of the films she made with Joe D'Amato ("Black Emanuelle" and otherwise), but it has the usual nude scenes, and a long (some would say interminable) softcore sex scene near the end that differs somewhat from the "Black Emanuelle" series where the sex scenes are more truncated. If THAT'S a reason to watch this dreck, have at it, but keep in mind you are going to suffer mightily through a lot of lame, badly-dubbed provincial "comedy" to get there. But then that's why they invented fast-forward buttons.

When exactly did the Black Emanuelle movies turn into a comedy-series? As an ambitious and free-spirited journalist, this gorgeous woman battled against women's oppression, snuff-networks, prostitution, slavery and even freaking cannibals! So what the hell is she doing now as the sexy doctor in a small community full of sleazy rednecks? Well, it can all be explained in one simply sentence. It's NOT a Black Emanuelle film at all and hasn't got anything to do with either "Emanuelle in Bangkok", "Emanuelle in America" and "Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals". This is just a very simple-minded and forgettable sex comedy in which Laura Gemser's character is actually named Selena, only the distributors assumed it'd be much more profitable to put the name Emanuelle on the DVD-cover. Can you blame them for wanting to make more money? Well, either way it's a really lame film that is only funny when it tries to be serious and vice versa. It has no actual story to tell, as it simply introduces random male characters that try to end up in Gemser's bed (some succeed) and random female characters that get jealous of the new babe in town and use their naked bodies to win the men back. Again, some succeed. The acting and directing are terrible, the use of music is overly lurid and the sex jokes are embarrassingly anti-funny. The things we have to endure to catch a glimpse of Laura's perplexing naked body!

First, let it be known that Laura Gemser's character isn't called Emanuelle in this film; it's Barbara.

Second, the film quality is extremely bad; grain and streaks throughout. The dubbing is atrocious; little effort was made to match the English soundtrack to the Italian actors' speech.

Third, the story is a throw-away about 2 rivals, the current and former mayors of a small Italian village. Gemser arrives at the film's beginning to be the village doctor.

The only reasons to sit through something this bad are the sexual scenes: 4 scenes of nudity; 2 involving fondling; 2 up-skirt; 1 simulated sex scene. Gemser is sickeningly skinny, but the other female lead is sufficiently attractive.

All-in-all, a film to be avoided; not even the cost of a rental or the time it takes to view.

If you are an Emanuelle fan (indeed if you are a film fan), I really would not bother with this one- a weird cross breed of "Carry On Luigi" and weak Gemser softcore. It has none of the humour of the former, and none of the sophistication of the latter.

Yes Gemser gets naked occasionally, as does AN Other, but the film is so lousy that we just don't care. No charm, no sensuality- and not worth your time.

For those who are fans of Eurotica, I would of course strongly recommend the others in the Emanuelle series- but this (like a number of other so-called entries in the series) has "Emanuelle" daubed on it, but wears the title with no authority.