Sex comedy is flat
My review was written in January 1990 after watching the film on Vestron video cassette.
Made in 1987 with alternate title "Bikini Genie", "Wildest Dreams" is a below-par sex comedy belatedly being released direct-to-video.
It was shot in Gotham for the since defunct Lightning Pictures wing of also defunct Vestron Pictures, whose video arm is distributing. Pic's natural outlet, however, is paycable, where director Chuck Vincent's formula of bare bosoms and slapstick has proved to be a programming staple.
James Davies, who did a good job playing an evangelist in the recent theatrical release "Heaven Becomes Hell", is a bit old for the lead role here. He's a nerd left to run his parents' Greenwich Village antique shop in their absence. A bottle arrives from ancient Egypt and out pops lively Heidi Paine as a genie, who soon switches from the Barbara Eden look to wear a bikini.
Cornball complications arise when she grants his third wish for "true love". A succession of women, including Jeanne Marie as a hausfrau addicted to cleaning and buxom delivery girl Ruth Collins, become infatuated with Davies but none of them are "true". Predictably, the plain Jane who's his assistant at the shop, Deborah Blaisdell, becomes his soulmate in the end. In-joke is that she's actually porn star Tracey Adams, demure this time out.
Cast tries hard, but the film isn't funny. It lacks the special effects associated with this fantasy genre.
Made in 1987 with alternate title "Bikini Genie", "Wildest Dreams" is a below-par sex comedy belatedly being released direct-to-video.
It was shot in Gotham for the since defunct Lightning Pictures wing of also defunct Vestron Pictures, whose video arm is distributing. Pic's natural outlet, however, is paycable, where director Chuck Vincent's formula of bare bosoms and slapstick has proved to be a programming staple.
James Davies, who did a good job playing an evangelist in the recent theatrical release "Heaven Becomes Hell", is a bit old for the lead role here. He's a nerd left to run his parents' Greenwich Village antique shop in their absence. A bottle arrives from ancient Egypt and out pops lively Heidi Paine as a genie, who soon switches from the Barbara Eden look to wear a bikini.
Cornball complications arise when she grants his third wish for "true love". A succession of women, including Jeanne Marie as a hausfrau addicted to cleaning and buxom delivery girl Ruth Collins, become infatuated with Davies but none of them are "true". Predictably, the plain Jane who's his assistant at the shop, Deborah Blaisdell, becomes his soulmate in the end. In-joke is that she's actually porn star Tracey Adams, demure this time out.
Cast tries hard, but the film isn't funny. It lacks the special effects associated with this fantasy genre.
- lor_
- 6 may 2023