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7/10
No More Pencils, No More Books, Only Teacher's Dirty Looks
Nodriesrespect27 August 2012
Warning: Spoilers
The late lamented Paul Vatelli, who passed away from an AIDS-related illness just as he was hitting his creative peak circa 1986, frequently favored story over sex with several of his most lauded movies like BODIES IN HEAT, STIFF COMPETITION and SORORITY SWEETHEARTS thusly constructed that their naughty bits could easily be toned down for ready made cable consumption. With GETTING LUCKY, an affable titillating trade-up of raunchy R-rated T&A fare like PORKY'S, he uncharacteristically tipped the scales in the other direction with results that are actually none the worse for largely dispensing with needless narrative to focus on the fornication.

It's the end of the school year and three graduates, or rather two and a conspicuously older hanger-on (no one in his right mind would have dared to pass off seasoned Eric Edwards as being of college age at this advanced stage of his adult career), are looking to get laid. While Johnny (Edwards) is having Tammy (the actor's then real life wife Rene Summers looking positively ravishing) in the backseat in more ways than one, his obnoxious pal Moon (prime '80s stud meat Craig Roberts) - so nicknamed for his annoying habit of flashing his friends - tries to divert his attention after being blown off by specialty big bust model Barbara Alton who prefers an extremely youthful Marc Wallice, ill-advised and thankfully soon discarded mustache and all. Both scenes feature well-captured rear entries in a trend to be continued. Uncredited achingly gorgeous Angel West, star of the Jerome Bronson sound-alike GETTING READY, appears all too briefly bestowing a tenderly tentative BJ on Eric's well-traveled wand before it's off to the races.

Sex scene set-ups are often ludicrous like Moon being picked up by a van full of fine female flesh who want to equal their friend's claim of having made a guy cum ten times over the course of a single night. Since they didn't have anything else planned, Misty Dawn (aka Mrs. Laurie Holmes, spouse to King John), redhead Rose Marie (among the prettiest of all '80s starlets) and single shot Mary Ann Richards do their darnedest to drain the unlikely super-stud of his vital fluids in three certifiable cum shots, the supplemental seven left to audience imagination. Just as silly is Johnny's braggy bet with hookers Janey Robbins (always value for money) and honey-coated Shanna Evans (star of Ken Gibb's FLESHDANCE) that whoever gets the most out of their sexual union should pay the bill. Fortunately, both scenarios yield top notch turn-on value.

Lovestruck Daryl (goodlooking enough for gay porn one shot Todd Keller) is fighting frustration over girlfriend Marcia (adorable Cynthia Brooks from David Frazer and Svetlana's BAD GIRLS III, otherwise shown to good advantage in Gibb's early Ginger Lynn vehicle THE SWEETEST TABOO) who refuses to put out, sending him sulking into the night. Jaywalking absent-minded, he's nearly mowed down by a Limo carrying Duschka, the Dutch dominatrix featured in Vatelli's niche-oriented HOUSE OF PLEASURE and Kim Christy's disparagingly dire SULKA'S DAUGHTER. Although that close-cropped platinum do still makes her look butch, a softer make-up and frilly feminine attire should broaden her fan-base as she initiates the squeamish Daryl with a master's (mistress's ?) hand. Feeling somewhat apprehensive for unceremoniously casting his good girl aside, he rushes to her house the very next morning to make sweet tender love in a couples-friendly capper to this nearly wall to wall hump-a-thon.

Adhering to self-imposed high standards in terms of production, Vatelli took a break from shooting his own stuff, leaving the already revered Jack Remy in charge. A master of mood, Remy devised his lighting for cinema screen exposure, which will inevitably draw the critique from audiences acquiring Caballero's dimly duplicated DVD that it lacks that all-important clarity. There's even an original soundtrack containing several songs that stick in the mind by D'Artagnan who would subsequently work on Edwin Brown's well-regarded EVERY WOMAN HAS A FANTASY and its near-equal sequel.
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9/10
Back to the future
jj_hansell12 January 2021
A wonderful nostalgia trip, with some of the greatest performers from the early days of the Golden Age of adult entertainment. Some of these ladies were only around for a short time, or didn't do very much hardcore porn, like Shanna Evans & Barbara Alton, who does a "backdoor" scene here for the first & only time on film, with Marc Wallice, the "go-to" guy for such things. Also on board are favorite performers like Janey Robbins, Renee Summers, and Rose Marie. Dushka makes an impression (and how) with her unique look, sort of a dominatrix with a Sinead O'Connor haircut. Her scene with a virginal masochistic dude is a keeper. Great stuff!
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