I disagree that "King Dick", known in Italian as "Il nano e la strega", is pornographic. Sure, the focus is pretty consistently on sex, but it never seems to be trying for eroticism. Instead, the tone is humorous, though never really funny.
Take for example the protagonist, one Little Dick, whose name is thoroughly ironic. Sure, he's little like a gnome, but he's big where it counts. There's also an evil hag named Nymphomania, who used to be young and beautiful, but was cursed to be in her current form and can only relinquish this curse when she has had sixty-nine orgasms. Little Dick might come in handy after all.
There's probably only a few seconds of sex in the movie, and they didn't exactly go all out on making it look sexy or appealing. Two characters basically bump into each other from behind, while fully clothed. You could get the same effect by holding up two pieces of paper with poor drawings of cartoon people on them, and smacking them into each other.
When I was a kid I used to think it was funny that what is marked as "adult" entertainment is pitched at an intellectual level that only a child could understand. "King Dick" is a pretty good example of that. Of course, the animation is also really cruddy - reminds me of the dirty pictures my friends drew in primary school - but what do you expect from an early '70s animated porno flick, now only available as a VHS rip?
I don't know why, but I kept watching until the end. It was occasionally amusing, if not very entertaining.
Take for example the protagonist, one Little Dick, whose name is thoroughly ironic. Sure, he's little like a gnome, but he's big where it counts. There's also an evil hag named Nymphomania, who used to be young and beautiful, but was cursed to be in her current form and can only relinquish this curse when she has had sixty-nine orgasms. Little Dick might come in handy after all.
There's probably only a few seconds of sex in the movie, and they didn't exactly go all out on making it look sexy or appealing. Two characters basically bump into each other from behind, while fully clothed. You could get the same effect by holding up two pieces of paper with poor drawings of cartoon people on them, and smacking them into each other.
When I was a kid I used to think it was funny that what is marked as "adult" entertainment is pitched at an intellectual level that only a child could understand. "King Dick" is a pretty good example of that. Of course, the animation is also really cruddy - reminds me of the dirty pictures my friends drew in primary school - but what do you expect from an early '70s animated porno flick, now only available as a VHS rip?
I don't know why, but I kept watching until the end. It was occasionally amusing, if not very entertaining.