Horst_In_Translation Review of Sensational Janine

Sensational Janine (1976)

Rhombach is hot, but the story is not memorable at all

[4/10 · 17 September 2016]

"Josefine Mutzenbacher - Wie sie wirklich war: 1. Teil" is a West German German-language movie from 1976, so this one has its 40th anniversary this year. The director and writer is Hans Billian and after having seen this and another work from him I must say he is better than most other porn film makers. Much better. And even if I enjoyed "Kasimir der Kuckuckskleber" more than this film here, I must say this most known work from the Mutzenbacher film series was also above average for a porn movie. The title states and many people say that this is the first, but this is not really true as there was already a Mutzenbacher film from 1970 that many may have gotten mixed up with this one here, but it is a different project made by other people and also starring somebody else as the title character. About this one here, the lead actress is Patricia Rhomberg and she is pretty stunning. Sadly, the same is not really true about most of the other cast members in here. She brings the hotness and Sepp Gneissl, who plays one of the male protagonists beings the fun, at least occasionally as he is a decent comedic actor in terms of line delivery. As a whole, like I already said, it was definitely above-average for a porn film, also because of costumes etc. But it also needs to be noted that the 8.0 this film has here on IMDb that would almost be enough for making it to the top250 films if it had more ratings is ridiculously overrated. It is still not a good film and the script is pretty weak for the most part. No interesting or entertaining story is told and I am baffled how much other reviewers praise the film. You should not really compare it to other porn movies, but to other movies in general as IMDb is not a porn movie database. This is also why I do not recommend the watch and I don't think any of the sequels (look at the title) are really justified. At least, I have no interest to watch them. I give this "first" Mutzenbacher film a thumbs-down. Not recommended.