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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Stuck up gal get's taken down a cup
All around funny, well written well acted coming of age comedy for tween-aged girls. The antagonist is pretty, bossy, mean, stuck up blonde named Lyndsay who's "Nunga Nungas" are the center of her social gravity. What Lyndsay doesn't know is that Georgia and her friends have discovered that Lyndsay is secretly wearing falsies a fact they are perfectly happy to keep to themselves, until Lyndsay shows up to Georgia's sweet sixteen party and throws massive, public, shade Georgia's way. You guessed it, Lyndsay gets "busted." A fairly well done reveal but some of the camera angles chosen are not ideal. Overall artifice-exposed fans will love it.
Bewitched: Snob in the Grass (1968)
The Perfect Revenge Story
The theme of using magic to eliminate rivals and villains is a fixture in the Bewitched series. But few episodes set up the villain to be as deserving as Sheila Somers, the beautiful ex-fiance of Darren. Snob in the Grass is a reboot of the B-Plot of the Pilot episode in which Darren's former fiance plots to embarrass Samantha in a party setting. Sheila's plan is right out of the standard playbook for Snobs: Control the topics of conversation to subjects that make Samantha look uninformed. Look more fashionable, Look more beautiful, and throw some sneaky shade. The acting job by Nancy Kovack as Sheila is positively, perfectly, condescending, confident, self centered, and chock full of backhanded jabs. She flirts shamelessly with Darren and pulled out the stops in the beauty department from her figure displaying fitted capris and sleeveless knit top to her Cleopatra eye make up and perfect raven haired flip. As the Sheila's plan unfolds, it's clear Samantha has been set up to fail. Even the heartless Larry Tate has trouble stomaching the awkwardness and gives Samantha a sympathetic look. What's a gal to do?
And herein lies the attraction of the whole magic genre in the first place. Sheila's real power is the rule of consequences. Samantha is not going to take direct action because there would be consequences to her husband and her reputation. But with a twitch of the nose you can make anything look like an accident, completely untraceable back to her. Hmmm is that wig Sheila's wearing? I wonder how cool and condescending she be if it "accidentally" came off?
"I won't"
"I won't"
"Maybe I will..."
A Bee, A Butler, A great Dane, and Garden hose later Sheila's had a disastrous night, and Samantha the last woman standing. When you get to the end of this episode you are gritting your teeth and demanding justice. And this episode delivers in a big comically satisfying way. It's an artifice-exposed classic.
Splitz (1982)
Best laugh was the falsies...
I gave this movie a 5 on the comic value of Fern Hymenstein, the busty blonde stuck up villain in this battle of the sororities. Right out of the box we learn that Fern's admirable assets are rumored to be less than authentic. A fact her lovable rivals find amusing. The movie stays true to form, showing Fern with her pointy pushed up bust-line for the whole movie. No other references to her false bust are made until the final scene she is knocked unconscious and her inflatable bra deflates. Obviously foreshadowed in the beginning of the movie, it was satisfying to see them follow through with the punchline. Artifice Exposed fans will love it.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Underrated fun
This movie is pretty predictable, and most of the jokes are pretty stale, still the plot does have it's fun parts. The competition between Patty and Elvira is priceless. I loved the scene where the two stand chest to chest and Patty backs Elvira down, who despite her famous assets, can't measure up to Patty. Elvira gets her revenge later when she reveals Patty wears falsies! I laughed out loud, and made watching this movie worth it for me. An artifice-exposed classic
The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986)
30 minutes too thong...
The mind numbing dream sequences are so bad that it's hard to believe anyone can make it through them to watch what more of this movie lives on the other side. What is will surely disappoint. Bad acting, bad directing, and bad bikinis add up to a lousy bikini movie. If the dream sequences aren't the worst example of big screen directing, the film's final sequence is. In it, the snobby ex-fiancee is humiliated when her dress is torn off, revealing she wears a girdle, in front of her hardbody bikini clad replacement. Sounds almost funny, except the scene comes off about as funny, and looks more like, a mugging. Nothing to see hear folks..