Eis am Stiel 3 - Liebeleien

This is most probably the best of the Popsicle films, though they are all class(1-6 movies, the others are not so good). The laughs come thick and fast and the soundtrack reaches its peak. Benji's parents have some great lines in this film and Huey's scene with them is still one of the funniest scenes I've seen in a comedy

The first two in the Lemon Popsicle series I saw were dubbed in English. This third one I saw in the original Hebrew with English subtitles. So Bobby is Momo here, Huey is Yudale, and lead Benji is Benzi. Martha is Bracha and Victor from the first one is Foyodor. As before, the continuity from the last one is ignored so once again they're friends who are just out for a good time, meaning to have sex wherever they can get it! This time, Benzi has two girls-Nurit who he's been going out with for a while and Nili who returned from a long trip who previously was involved with Momo. By the way, this Nili is probably not the same one from Lemon Popsicle since she's played by a different actress and doesn't seem to have the same characteristics. There's more slapstick than drama of which some of the most hilarious scenes involve a fine-looking cousin of Benzi's named Freida who gets quite a look from both Benzi and his father, even in front of the mother who's none to pleased, that's for sure! There's also another funny sequence between a female piano teacher and Momo that's basically him doing what a certain presidential candidate claims he gets away with on a certain hidden tape! At least one sequence was also used in the American remake of Lemon Popsicle, The Last American Virgin. When one thinks of it, does the plot of this one make sense, well, no but it provides plenty of laughs, that's for sure! So that's a recommendation of Hot Bubblegum.

This is the first one of the Israeli/West German "Lemon Popsicle" series that I have seen, but I am familiar with the seminal 80's American teen comedy "The Last American Virgin", which had the same director (Boaz Davidson) and was a virtual re-make of the first film in this series ("Going All the Way"). "The Last American Virgin" also borrows some scenes from this, the third in the series, including the scene where the protagonist "Benji" and his two friends pick up three girls, and while one of his friends gets very lucky with the most attractive one, he is stuck trying to get the bra off the dour, unattractive one. There is also a scene where the same three boys all try to have an ill-fated gang-bang with an older nymphomaniac, but while in "Last American Virgin" it was a Mexican spitfire on the hero's pizza route, here it is the hero's sexy blonde cousin(!) visiting from Poland. Most of this movie, however, involves the protagonist being torn between his loyal but virginal girlfriend "Doris" and the "fast" but unfaithful "Niki", who apparently is the same character that was in the first "Lemon Popsicle" film (and the one played by Diane Franklin in "The Last American Virgin").

It's ironic that some Americans regard this as a "rip-off" of "Porky's", not only because it obviously preceded "Porky's", but also because, if anything, the influence was in the other direction! Not only was "Last American Virgin" an important influence on later teen sex comedies like "Porky's", but the Jewish writers, directors, and producers of these American films were clearly aware of this Israeli series, even if the non-Jewish American audience of the the time largely was not. Most 80's American teen sex comedies actually have a lot more in common with this series than they do with the 70's American teen sex comedies, including a tendency to be set sometime in the past (usually the 50's and 60's) in order to pull a nostalgic and horny adult audience as well as a merely horny teen one, and a soundtrack filled with popular rock songs (I don't know how they got away with this back then--the music rights alone for a film like this today would be several times the budget).

Like "Last American Virgin" this is both raunchy and ridiculous, on one hand, but also strangely realistic, especially compared to insipid teen fairy tales like "Sixteen Candles" or "The Breakfast Club" (To my mind, it was the late John Hughes who really ruined these films by making them cloying, patronizing, and relatively sex free). This isn't a great film. The English dubbing is not bad, but dubbing is NEVER an asset, and the jokes tend to miss more than they hit. A lot of the characters are annoying stereotypes (like the horny fat kid), but the lead (Yftach Katzur) is good as are his very Jewish parents. His two girlfriends (Arielle Rabinovich and Oma Dagan) are quite pretty, and his frequently naked female cousin (Sybille Rauch) is very sexy.

If you like 80's teen comedies, you should definitely check this out, but I would recommend it to anyone regardless,

This third entry to the "Lemon Popsicle" franchise of teen sex comedies certainly has the most nudity so far. It begins with a scene where the three boys (Benji, Momo and Yudale) peek through a hole in the wall at some girls changing, and when Yudale climbs on top of the changing room, he predictably falls through the roof, only to be chased out by half-clad and naked girls, and an ugly middle-aged woman, who are always spoiling the guys' fun in movies like these.

The prior Lemon Popsicle flicks always featured episodic teenage sex hijinx to break up the more serious scenes about the hero, Benji's, more serous love interest. I was never as aware of how uneasy this mix was as when I was watching this entry. The movie's actual plot is about Benji needing to choose between two girls, but in some of the hijinx scenes, he's shown trying to get with other girls and nobody mentions the ones he already has.

The behaviour in the episodic scenes also doesn't add up to what we've seen these guys do in previous movies. Benji's fallen in love, lost his virginity, paid for an abortion, had his heart broken, all in the first movie. Now he's betting on what colour panties the girls are wearing with his friend Yudale, who uses a mirror on his shoe to find out. Come to think of it, Yudale's far from a virgin now too. He had crabs in the first movie (so did Benji). You'd think he'd have grown out of sub-adolescent shenanigans like this by now.

What I'm saying is that the formula was really starting to show by the third flick. We get scenes that involve the real plot of the movie, ie. Benji's relationship development, and then unrelated scenes of teenage sex antics that we've all seen before. Some of these scenes are even kind of alarming, like one where Yudale tries to force himself on a girl and it looks like an attempted rape, or the boys spiking the girls' drinks with vodka, or a scene where Benji finally gets to bed his beautiful blonde houseguest (who is only in the movie for one scene) and then we see the other boys lining up outside, waiting for their turn. If you have sex with one of the Lemon Popsicle boys, do you hereby consent to have sex with the other two as well?

I still enjoyed the movie. The great soundtrack always gets you to come back to it when your attention wanes, and I like its beautiful Israeli girls.

I've seen this movies long time ago at German ZDF channel. Now I own the English/Russian dubbed version. I think that the third entry of "Eis am Stiel" is JUST COOL ! ! ! I miss that hardcore comedies of all time. Nobody shoot such a movies at the present time .. The score is nice - plenty of 60's tunes (Chuck Berry and Elvis the King) and it match perfectly on plot. Of course we can see Sybille Rauch with her BIG BOOTS too ; ) A couple of years ago I read on Polish newspaper that it's really hard to find "Lemon Popsicle" release on DVD. I don't know if it's true ??? However, this flick contain strong portion of nasty behavior, naked teenage beauties and really funny gigs. But the plot is more complicated - we have summer love story with a broken heart and so on .. If you share the same sense of humor I also recommend you "Lemon Popsicle" part shoot at the Army, and two first parts of PORKY's .. Almost 90 minutes of pure entertainment :) Enjoy it!