Simply A Masterpiece

Pretty Good

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Staring my viewing of the 7 disc Lemon Popsicle box set on Monday,I got set to finish the week by watching the final movie in the set. Finding the 6th to be a terrible entry in the series,I got set to find out what note the final would hit.The plot:During the summer season,Hughie makes cash by renting the backseat of his dads (who is away on holiday) truck to couples. Letting his pals Bobby and Benzi hang out at the family pad. Finding the pad to be in ruins when he walks in on Bobby and Benzi with some ladies,Hughie's troubles start to pile up,when he smashes his dads truck. Desperate to raise cash for the repairs,Benzi,Hughie and Bobby go to get jobs at a hotel.View on the film:Made with a crew that had no connection to any other LP,editor/director Walter Bannert & cinematographer Hanus Polak tape the series to a new low,where all of the 50's/60's charm of the franchise is burnt up for a grotty Video appearance. While giving the flick a small return to the sexy antics of the past films,the screenplay by Anton Moho hacks away at the franchise,which includes horribly changing the background to the most distinctive scenes in the first film,as the lemon Popsicle's finally melt away.

This seventh movie of the Israeli "Lemon Popsicle" movie series came out 9 years after the first, so it was roughly one film per year. That is also why none of the humor is really new and the stories are nothing that hasn't been there before. Katzur is on his way to finding the true love for the 2326727th time and he also has all the dramatic moments. Noy is in there for the comedy exclusively and Sagall is a mix of both. The latter was not in the sixth movie, but here he is back. Also, later on he played in Spielberg's "Schindler's List". This movie, which runs for 80 minutes roughly, also has Leonard Lansink in the cast. For German audiences he may be a familiar name because of his work in Wilsberg. The writer from this 7th film also wrote many Wilsberg episodes, probably not a coincidence. And Walter Bannert, the director, has also a long list of German television projects in his resumé. Sibylle Rauch may also be known to some German-speaking watchers. Sonja Martin probably is not, but she is a bit of a regular in this movie series.This film has all the usual ingredients: beach action, flirting, making out, some nudity, some pseudo drama (intrigue on alleged cheating) and the known trio (romantic, chaotic, Casanova). Not any character development at all anymore. One of the girls looked like Betty from the Flintstones movie in a scene early in the film. The highlight of the film is the music once again. Many known songs were used here, such as "La Bamba", "Great Balls of Fire" (also in movie number 6), "Volare". The sixth movie took place mostly on a yacht, this one has many scenes in a hotel. My personal highlight was the wonderful "Save the Last Dance for Me" at the end. IMDb lists the original language as German, but I have doubts here. Lots of dubbing for sure in this movie, at least the main characters.

This is one of the last films of the (somewhat) famous Israeli "Lemon Popsicle" series. By this time the plotting had largely gone out the window as well as some of the more successful comedy bits. The character development and acting had become pretty much a complete afterthought. And the three male characters had lost a lot of their adolescent appeal since the actors here are all pushing 30 (hard) and far from being awkward virgins, they manage to get laid more than probably ANYONE did during this era (which judging from the cars and music seems to be the early to mid 60's).The plot has the three ever-horny protagonists hanging out on the beach where the fat guy, "Hughie" is renting out the trunk of his father's Mercury to rutting couples. After crashing the car into a tree, they all have to take jobs at a summer resort where all the females (maids, guests, etc.) are sexually insatiable. The main protagonist "BenjI" is (as usual) torn between two lovers, a hot girl he just broke up (Sonja Martin), who shows up at the resort with her family to meet her new wealthy fiancée, and another hot girl (Sissi Liebold) who is pursuing him. His two friends try to help him out by kidnapping and tying up the fiancée and taking his hot-to-trot pursuer off his hands. . .One area where this film definitely does succeed is that the girls in this are really attractive (although only one of the three males is) and they manage to efficiently get pretty much all of them completely naked, the one exception strangely being Sybille Rauch (as a hotel guest with a big dog), who had the most racy scenes in the earlier "Hot Bubblegum: Lemon Popsicle 3" and who would become a hardcore porn star that same year! Generally though, if the early entries in this series resemble the sexual frustration and adolescent angst of "The Last American Virgin" (which was basically a modern-day American remake of these films), this film resembles a lot of Golan-Globus American sex comedies of the mid to late 80's like "Hot Resort", "Private Resort", "Hot Chili", etc. where that is secondary at best and almost the entire emphasis is on female nudity, softcore sex scenes, and general brain-dead frivolity. But if you shut your mind off and keep your expectations low, it's not that bad

benji,bobby and huey have gotten older, but there love for sex,parties and rock n roll is as funny,charming and enjoyable as it always was. a big improvement over the last installment, bobby is back and he is better than ever as he charms his way into girls underwear like only bobby could. as usual benji is in love and huey is just there to make us laugh, so the formula hasen't changed so don't expect nothing new but if you liked the other movies in the funny teen sex comedy series your gonna enjoy this one. cry with laughter as benji,bobby and huey gets jobs at a five star hotel, and chase anything in or out of a skirt.