ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

jellopuke Fantastic encapsulation of the Russ Meyer style with an over the top story, hilarious satire, and great songs! Super fun and tremendous to watch again and again.

videorama-759-859391 I must admit, I've never really been a Russ Meyer fan. I've never been able to sit through his films. This excellent film is an exception, a one off. I've watched it a few times. One lovely asset is of course, Edy Williams, only she's not the only ho groovy chick in it. The way out psychedelic music, is another thing, I liked. This film was made at the start of the seventies, the year I was born, but found it's way to video 1990, via a brief run at the cinema once before. The movie really shows what the entertainment scene was, struggling actors, sleazy, mocking producers, who like to manipulate young philies, gays, and drag queens who may'be take their King Arthur roles, a little seriously, resulting a graphic beheading. Too, it shows you what the drug scene was like. Essentially the story follows a promising band, and dig the name, who roam town to town, ending up in the city of angels, only to receive, an all too painful lesson, on what it takes, if you really wanna make it. Their manager, a Greg Brady lookalike kind of guy, is in love with the lead hottie, Kelly, where soon a jealous and agonizing streak sets in him, where the easily led, Kelly, who buys this whole scene of B.S. begins an affair with a stud, wannabe actor/model, where this has disastrous results. Kelly tracks down her long lost Sister, where she finds out she's inherited a nice little nest egg, where this greedy producer, Porter, is trying to get his hands on it. This movie never bores. And it's written by American favorite, movie critic, Roger Ebert, of all people. He's created formulated a great movie, somewhat a treasure, with rich characters, and in my opinion, a very of matter fact account of Hollywood, this time. It's really good insight if you look, closer. He for one should know. It's inspirational, in a more discreet kind of way, where the footnote, at the end about about each character, serves the movie well. Almost two thumbs up, Roger. The very familiar, opening music score/anthem with the opening credits strolling up the screen, heralds it campy, insightful brilliance.

rooee Valley of the Dolls was a famously rubbish 1967 relationship drama, dead earnest in its execution. So naturally this 1970 follow-up is a raunchy sex comedy directed by Russ Meyer and penned by the late film critic Roger Ebert. Valley starred Sharon Tate, who along with four others would be murdered by the Manson family in 1969. The fact that this homicide forms the basis of Beyond's insane bloodbath ending tells you all you need to know about the approach Meyer and Ebert are taking with this remake/sequel.Dolly Read plays Kelly, the lead singer of an up-and-coming all-girl pop-rock band, which heads to LA to meet Kelly's aunt, Susan (Phyllis Davis), and hopefully meet with her $50k inheritance. But Susan's adviser, Porter (Duncan McLeod), has his eyes on the money and dismisses Kelly and co as kinky hippies. While this battle is waged, the girls live up to Porter's title, boozing and bonking their way through a series of parties, while their new svengali, Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell (a lascivious John Lazar), sidelines their existing manager Harris (David Gurian), changes the band's name, and shamelessly promotes them for himself."All uptight about tomorrow and hanging onto yesterday," moans Randy Black (Jim Iglehart, channelling a low-rent Mohammed Ali); "all that matters is now." Combining counterculture energy with cheapo raunchiness, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls boldly and ruthlessly satirises the Love Generation.The story begins with a road trip promising boundless opportunity and free-spiritedness, but ultimately the girls' desires are parochial and shallow: sex and wealth. It takes a genuine tragedy to wake Kelly up to what's really important – as the needless narration only too clearly spells out in the end: "Those who only fake must be prepared to pay the highest price of all." Throughout, the aesthetic is pure gaudy music vid, edited like some kind of hangover flashback, especially in the party scenes, hopping back and forth between scraps of crazy cat dialogue from hedonists self-medicating on booze and weed and downers. ("Dolls" is a slang term for the latter.) When Z-Man is showing Kelly around her first party, he introduces her to a whole cast of characters, defining their uniqueness as if they all have a special part to play in maintaining the Free Love myth.But individualism taken to its endgame is dangerous, and Kelly's indulgence of her desires is precisely what ends up hurting those around her. Harris's old-fashioned monogamous romanticism is incompatible with the wild world into which he follows Kelly. His old world values leave him not only isolated but assumed to be gay. In the end he is metaphorically de-sexed, embodying a deeper, less possessive love, one equally free.I'm making the movie sound like a Freudian bore but it's quite the opposite. It totally indulges and hyperbolises the excesses of the period, and it's packed with frank-yet-harmless sex and nudity, as well as a host of awesome driving pop songs you've heard somewhere before. The whole cast plays it straight, because that's how satire should work – and also because Meyer never let the cast in on the joke. It works perfectly: Casey's (Cynthia Meyers) pregnancy revelation is pure soap brilliance.Long before the final reel you'll be well entrenched in the joke, revelling in the film's breathless pace, blinding colours, and ridiculously intricate wordplay. Z-Man's climactic actualisation of his medieval king persona is the zenith of excess. As he beheads his subject we hear the 20th Century Fox theme. It's the icing on one of the most subversive cakes in mainstream cinema history.

Stay_away_from_the_Metropol Wow. I have always wanted to see this but I didn't expect to like it so much! Definitely a new favorite of mine. With a cast full of unbelievably attractive people, this is the greatest psychedelic period piece from my favorite era of the 20th century. Things don't get much better than this - a 1970 film constantly weaving in and out through over a dozen characters. When a group of hotties move to L.A. to pursue their dream of making it big as a rock band - they get caught up in money, power, and of course SEX! Watch them all transform. The plot seems cliché and shallow - BUT it is anything but - the characters are so interesting you never get bored. Plus, I'll say it again - THEY ARE ALL SO EASY ON THE EYES! The movie would be entertaining enough just staring at this perfect human beings - but no, they have to mix in debauchery, sick editing, unexpected freakouts, hallucinogens, pornstars, suicide, dance parties, dudes with tits, and more! I can't praise this movie enough! See it!