Commentaire par lazarillo

I used to think American and British sex comedies were bad until I saw this stinker, my first German sex comedy. The plot involves a count and a colonel who are fighting over the ownership of a castle for some reason, and decide to resolve the matter by betting which of them will be the first to bed one of the two daughters of the local laundry-women, who are apparently the only two virgins in town. This causes the colonel to neglect his hot-to-trot mistress played by Edwige Fenech. She takes up with his lieutenant, an excellent swordsman in more ways than one, who pretty much explodes the whole plot by de-virginizing the two laundry girls as well. It's far from over though as the girl's mother, a crooked lawyer, and the burly madam of the local brothel all get involved in the zaniness.

I suspect this movie wouldn't be too funny in German, and it's even worse with the awful English dubbing (I'd really like to find the one especially annoying guy who dubbed the manservant at the castle and countless other people in these kind of movies and beat him senseless, even if he probably is a harmless and doddering old man by now). And if you dislike the idiotic chases and pratfalls of the old "Benny Hill Show", well this makes that look sophisticated and erudite by comparison. The only saving grace is the woman. Edwige Fenech does some of the most unabashed nudity of her unabashed career--even sword-fighting in the nude at one point. The two virgins are both fresh and pretty. Then there are the prostitutes at the brothel who line up whenever a male customer comes in and spell out "Wilkommen" with letters painted on their bare butts in a running gag that isn't funny the first time (but I guess that's hardly the point).

This movie isn't THAT bad I guess. I'm not mad that I watched it (which is more I can say for a lot of recent Hollywood crap like "Closer"), but, lord knows, it's not good.