Well, this one was a fun one! Barring one, slightly uncomfortble scene of female on male rape around 20 minutes in, ‘Body Girls’ is a light hearted adult film with a somewhat screwball sensibility.
The plot? largely revolves around a gym owner by the name of Jackie La Lay (A play on both Jack and Jackie La Laine the famous gym enthusiasts) The girls of her gym enter a muscle/beauty competition every year, and every year they win outright. But competition from the gym across the city has been causing them trouble, and now they’re upping the ante sending two goons over to mess with the gym equipment of the girls and to intimidate the judges!
And so the girls band together to protect the judges (and guarentee their victory using there…bulging talents…) AND ensure that the only people screwing around in the gym are doing so as part of their membership fee…
And I kind of want to put this film in the same group as ‘Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls’ as a film that really isnt taking itself too seriously and uses that bubbly lightheartedness as a form of eroticism.
The scripts ultra basic and the dialogue really isnt up to much cop, a lot of the improvised talking during the sex scenes is awkward and feels forced. But thats kind of off set by the fact that everyone seems to be in the zone and vibe for this kind of thing and director Bob Chinn seems to really know how to pull naturalistic physical responses out of his subjects. As such it all feels very nicely curated and well paced. it slows down maybe a little bit in the middle, but it never loses its thread or tone which is admirable.
Theres absolutely a creative vision to hand here and Bob, working with the frankly ASTONISHINGLY gorgeous Hyapatia Lee has managed to create a gorgeous artistic vision here, draped in a somewhat hokey premise.
The cinematography oozes sensuality, they get up close into the action and compositon is minded towards really enveloping the audience in the intense eroticism on show.
The performances are a tad dry, but again, its hearts in the right place and that works for me! Physically they nail it, which…for this kind of film is kind of the important part.
and the soundtrack is pure knockoff 80s-ness. I definitely heard soundalikes of ‘What a feeling’ and similar across this one. and the entire film is legwarmers and headbands as far as the eye can see.
A real blast from the past ‘Body Girls’ is SO painfully 80s it almost feels like someones trying to parody the era after the fact. But its a technically very well made production with a rock solid script and some fantastic performances, making it an enjoyable and fun watch, that I can happily recommend.
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