So much average

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Sweet fair maiden Cinderella (a radiant and winning performance by lovely drive-in cinema starlet Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith), blessed with a certain special snapping distaff endowment, strikes the fancy of a jaded prince (a nicely smarmy Brett Smiley) after doing the deed with him at the royal ball.Director Michael Pataki, working from a blithely bawdy script by Frank Ray Perilli, keeps the enjoyable story moving along at a quick pace, astutely evokes the easy'n'breezy carefree anything-goes vibe of the happy'n'hedonistic 70's, milks plenty of laughs from the merry raunchy humor, and delivers oodles of tasty distaff nudity and sizzling soft-core sex. Moreover, it's acted with tremendous gusto by an enthusiastic cast: Sy Richardson contributes an outrageously campy portrayal of a jive hipster kleptomaniac Fairy Godmother, Kirk Scott has a field day as the bumbling Lord Chamberlain, Pamela Stonebrook really sinks her teeth into her juicy role as the evil emasculating queen, and Yana Nirvana and Marilyn Corwin gleefully ham it up as Cinderella's homely'n'horny stepsisters. Andrew Belling's funky score hits the get-down groovy spot while the discoid songs are quite bouncy, catchy, and funny. Joseph Mangine's sunny cinematography provides a pleasing bright look. Best of all, the gals featured herein are stone foxes, the simulated sex scenes are red hot stuff, there's a gloriously bizarre dream sequence, and the whole thing is way too giddy and loopy to even be remotely offensive. An absolute hoot.

Cinderella (1977) *** (out of 4) My rating certainly comes with a bit of nostalgia but I'm sure there are many out there who will go into this movie with memories such as mine. I remember this film quite fondly from my teenage years as my friends and I stumbled across it on Cinemax one night. We also saw bits and pieces of it but we'd try to catch it every time it was on. I'm not sure if we ever watched the film from start to finish but we'd quite often get into fights about the hottest girl or which one we'd most like to be the Prince with. Seeing the film after all these years certainly brought back a lot of fun memories but the film itself held up rather well. The simple storyline has the Price having a party thrown for him so that he can pick a bride but it's pretty much just an orgy. Cinderalla (Cheryl Smith) gets cleaned up by her fairy "godmutha" and he also gives her a snapping vagina (a different word is used in the film). This softcore effort from producer Charles Band is certainly a very memorable film and once you see it you're bound to have scenes stuck in your mind for life. I'm sure seeing it has a teen had an impact on several male viewers but even outside all the nudity there's just something charming about the film. I think the most credit must go to Smith who does a wonderful job with the role of Cinderella. It's not Oscar-worthy but it's fun and she comes off so sweet that you can't help but believe her in the part. The supporting players are all pretty good as well with Yana Nirvana and Marilyn Corwin excellent in the parts of the ugly step sisters and Kirk Scott as a dumb Lord. There are several musical numbers that are decent but nothing great. What makes the movie are all the softcore moments and this is certainly what attracted us to the film many years ago. I don't think more than five seconds go by without some sort of nudity and for the most part it's quite erotic whenever it's not trying to be funny (like the scene with the two girls bathing while their father is out hunting a certain creature).

I thought this was one of the funniest soft-core porn films I ever saw. Of course, you have to have a twisted sense of humour. If you're just out to get titillated, this isn't the movie for you. (I loved the black "fairy" godfather.)

I remember renting this in high school because the cover seemed to portray a porn film, yet this wasn't in the "big wooden cabinet." It attempts to be a soft-core pornographic comedy, which I guess it succeeds at without ever really delivering on the "pornographic" or the "comedy" part. Strangely enough, I've talked to many other people and if this film is mentioned, they've all seen it. Why? I don't know. Two memorable parts are the black man playing a fairy godmother (?) and the king announcing "The Kingdom has a Snapper!" (You'll have to figure that one out yourself.)