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Games Girls Play

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If the above quotation from Christina Hart's character in GAMES GIRLS PLAY intrigues you, congratulations. You're just the kind of person for this movie.

Scoring higher on the Cheesy Meter than a Swiss Colony catalog--and setting back the women's movement by at least a hundred years--there's little point in defending this seminal work of softcore yucks from the mid-70's. And that's the point, I suppose. It's so bad, it's good.

Plot? Uh, o.k., sure. Man-crazy Bunny (Hart) is shipped off to an girls' school in England, where she proceeds to engage her roomies in a game of Bed The Politician. The bet is on and the clothes are off.

Really. That's pretty much it.

Directed by once-respectable veteran Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came From Outer Space, etc.), GAMES GIRLS PLAY is best viewed as a product of its time. Personally, I first caught the film as a teenager on Cinemax's notorious "Friday After Dark" in the early 80's. If you came of age during that era, Bunny's exploits may hold a certain naughty nostalgic charm. And compared to today's smarter but far more cynical "adult" comedies, there's a goofy innocence about the film that might still win you over.

The extras include the R-rated trailer as well as t.v. spots, and a painful modern interview with Christina Hart. Painful? Well, her memories of the film aren't all that fond, and (with apologies to Ms. Hart) she looks very different these days.

The bottom line is simple enough: Either you're into this sort of thing or not. If, like myself, you have actually have fond memories of the film, you'll find it's really not that bad. As 70's teen sex comedies go, you could certainly do worse.

I watched that movie mainly for Ed Bishop (who as always delivers solid work and looks quite delicious for once out of uniform in this one), but ended up laughing hard so often, that I really enjoyed myself. This is so fantastically non-PC, with such an - in general - positive outlook on sex and enjoying having lots of it, that I couldn't help it. This is swinging London and pre-HIV-times, and everyone just has so much fun getting laid (not once but several times in a nights, different partners as well), that I couldn't help becoming nostalgic. And any guys who want to see beautiful but absolutely not surgically altered naked bodies also might love it. It has to be commended for that, too!

Don't bother renting or buying this turkey! The preview is free and about all the decent T&A you will get!