The Second film in Melusines ‘Bob Chinn’ Peekarama triple pack is 1979’s ‘Hot Legs’ and…to be honest, there isnt really much to say on this one, other than its a bit ‘Middle of the road’.

The plot follows a media company trying to realise a new advertising campaign for ‘Hot Legs’ a stocking and garter company who are looking to shake up the world of fashion with a raunchy set of commercial advertisements and magazine spreads. The media companies top dog is ‘Mort’ a very stressed out Ad man who’s trying to juggle no show actresses, the egos of photographers and union staff in order to get the project over the line.

As you can imagine, a series of vignettes putting actresses in scantily clad outfits on erotically charged sets is bound to lead to all kinds of ‘encounters’ and through the films runtime we see several instances where business and pleasure get a little TOO intertwined…

Having seen a few of Bob Chinns films now, I was actually a little underwhelmed by this one. It didnt quite manage the charm of say ‘The Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls’ or ‘Lets Get Physical’. Usually, Chinns works have a bit of a cheeky sense of humour about themselves, and while this film is somewhat light hearted, it all seemed a bit thin on the ground in terms of what the scripts brought out of the cast.

The plotting element is fine enough, if not a little bit vague. It maybe would have been nice to have just focussed on the actresses moving through the ad campaign, or the photographer, rather than spreading the plot super thin to cover all aspects of the production.

The sex scenes here seemed a bit less focussed than Chinns other offerings, here they were a bit *too* focussed on close up oral scenes, and kept a lot of the actual sex scenes at a distance, it felt a bit ‘hands off’ and didnt quite have the same charge that a lot of Chinns films usually do have.

That being said, we trade some of that eroticism instead for some really decent set work, decent lighting with coloured gels and some nice experimentation with compositional choices…

The cast all seem pretty with it in the sex scenes, but seem a bit cool and uninterested in playing their parts in the story segments.

I dont think this is a bad adult movie really, but I just dont really think it did anything to really make it standout…its fine enough in giving eroticism and a decent (enough) plot to help it all tie together…but it starts to drag a bit around the middle, purely because there just isnt enough happening to keep the audience engaged…throw into the mix the tepid sex scenes, and this is a movie that isnt really anything special…Maybe worth your time if your into Chinns work specifically, but your milage will very much vary otherwise.

source https://letterboxd.com/tytdreviews/film/hot-legs-1979/