Cycle Vixens

1978 "Ravaged - robbed & busted from county to county!"
4.6| 1h20m| R| en
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Three Colorado girls decide to hop on their motorcycles and head to California. On the way they get mixed up in drugs, rape and stolen motorcycles.

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Peter Perry Productions

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Also starring Carol Kottenbrook

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
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.
Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Wizard-8 By the late 1970s, the motorcycle movie genre was essentially dead for even the drive-in crowd, but that fact did not stop the makers of this particular effort. It's obviously inspired in part by "Easy Rider", seeing that it concerns a number of different vignettes experienced by people on a long cross country motorcycle trip. Most of these vignettes are fairly light hearted and innocuous, but there are a few that are much darker in nature and don't really fit with the movie's otherwise breezy and upbeat tone - ESPECIALLY the ending, which REALLY comes out of left field. A more pleasant tone from beginning to end would have helped, though the movie would still probably have been made cheaply and crudely made as it is now. I will say that the movie is never boring despite its faults, and it does at times well tap into the fantasy many of us have of dumping our responsibilities and going on a long road trip. But I still can't really recommend it for a general audience, though film buffs who have an interest in obscure drive-in product of the 1970s might find it at times an interesting curiosity.
lazarillo Three young girls living in a small Colorado town decide to take a trip on their motorbikes to California "to see the ocean". Two of the girls are sisters and go with the blessing of their widower father. The third has to sneak away from her strict parents. What follows is a long series of tragicomic misadventures. These "female hitchhiker" movies are one of my favorite 1970's exploitation genres(if they can really be called a "genre"). This is a little different in that the girls are on motorcycles rather than hitch-hiking, but otherwise this is in very much the same vein as movies like "Thumb-Tripping", "Girls on the Road", "Joyride to Nowhere", "The Hitchhikers", "Teenage Hitchhikers", etc. As in these other movie, there isn't so much a plot here as a random series of picaresque adventures.This particular movie is really a confused mixture of feminism and exploitation. The girls get peeped on, molested, and even raped by about every guy they meet, but they also manage to stick together and eventually take revenge on all these loutish males. In some ways this very low-budget movie actually anticipates the later Hollywood blockbuster "Thelma and Louise". It's too low-budget and exploitative to quite be the feminist fantasy that movie was, but it's not entirely just a male fantasy either (despite the tight shorts and somewhat loose morals of the three protagonists). In a typical scene, for instance, two of the girls are rolling a number in a gas station bathroom when they see a male pervert spying on them, so they respond by flashing theirs breasts and asses at him (yeah, THAT'LL teach him). But after he (perhaps understandably) actually approaches them, they beat the hell out of him and run him off.This movie definitely has its problems. It's even more low-budget than most of these type of films. The dialogue is very banal and the acting is atrocious. The single theme song gets very irritating and the end is both an egregious rip-off of a much more famous movie and is also very weak to boot. As an exploitation film it's pretty tame compared to some of the other "female hitchhiker" movies (like "Teenage Hitchhikers"),and it's definitely tame compared to many of co-director Bethel Buckalews other films (like "Sassy Sue" and "The Pigkeeper's Daughter"). Still, it's pretty unfair to criticize a low-budget movie simply for being low-budget. And while I'm not going to say it's technically a better movie than "Thelma and Louise", I find its confused message and its strange mixture of feminism and exploitation far more HONEST (with the exception of the crappy ending anyway) than that of the slicker, more "politically correct" Hollywood film.
Chrissie You know how some movies are so bad that you have to watch in fascinated horror? This isn't one of them. This one is so bad it takes an act of will to watch it at all. Three teenage girls run away from home because they have become jaded by their lives, and their dream is to see the ocean in California. They set off on motorcycles. Bad stuff happens to them. Finally they make it to the California beach, but spoiler. As if it's possible to spoil something this abysmal.As if to underscore the lameness of the writing and acting, we're also mistreated to scenes of the three girls randomly wigging the controls of their motorcycles like toddlers on a carnival ride. Would it have been too much trouble to at least teach them to keep their hands still on the throttle while cruising?It might be fun to watch "Cycle Vixens" Mystery Science Theater style with a lot of friends under the influence of potent mind-altering substances, but I don't think even an acid trip could make this lame little item interesting.
eataTREE This movie is so bad, it's embarrassing. I think it's intended as a sort of morality fable on the dangers of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But the story is so muddled it's hard to tell. I hope they did not pay someone to write the screenplay.This might make good subject material for Mystery Science Theatre, or as something to giggle at while stoned. Other than that, don't bother.