Let's Do It! (1983)
3/10
Long winded, boring, without humour or eroticism
15 February 2016
This is another one of those teen boob "comedies" that were in almost infinite supply in the '80s. It must be quite literally impossible to track down every one today; this one, for example, used footage of King Kong without permission, so it won't be coming to DVD any time soon.

The footage from that particular classic is, of course, completely wasted and serves no purpose to the movie whatsoever, like every other aspect of it except for the naked female flesh.

In plot and set up it is actually also more like the British sex comedies of the '70s than "Porky's" or "Animal Farm". A guy cannot have sex with his more than willing girlfriend because he was breast fed too long in childhood, and this leads to him being too worried about giving his girl pleasure to be able to do the deed. Uh huh.

Cue the endless series of encounters he has with women who want to cure him of his condition. If it is intended as a comedy, as usual for this type of thing, there are no jokes, or situations exploited for comic potential. If it's intended as softcore, there is no eroticism, though there is plenty of nudity.

Watch for the scene where the dim witted hero sits down with a table of sex workers who tell about their sexual problems. One talks about being made to do child pornography since the age of seven. Yes, this is a "comedy". You might get a shocked laugh out of that exchange, but that'll be the only time you'll find yourself laughing.

The hero's wide eyed innocence also began to grate on me. He's not charismatic enough for a comedy a la Robin Askwith (the most [only?] famous British sex comedy actor), and he looks awkward in the sex scenes, which is perhaps why there are so few. What you get is a filmic Playboy catalogue, and hey, that's what Google Image Search is for.
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