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Actors: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers
Directors: Russ Meyer
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: June 13, 2006
Run Time: 109 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (101 customer reviews)
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This review is from: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (VHS Tape)
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS isn't just a cheesy movie: it is the Limburger of cheesy movies--a devastatingly awful flick of such horrific proportions that it completely defies every possible expectation. For the first ten minutes I sat before the screen, slack-jawed in disbelief. Then I began to laugh. And laugh and laugh and laugh until I thought I might rupture something! The story? It pretty much defies description, but in general it concerns a three-girl band and their boy-toy manager who move to Los Angeles and promptly go to pot. There are drugs, sex, some really bad rock 'n' roll, and before the credits roll we're even treated to a take-off (yes, I said take-off) on the notorious Sharon Tate murder and some of the most ridiculous moralizing in celluloid history. As leader of the band, Dolly Read looks and acts like Barbie's friend Skipper after one course of hormone treatments too many. (At times I wondered if she was Ethel Merman's long lost daughter or a maybe just a really wacked-out Grace Slick in a red-wig disguise.) Granted, Read only has about three expressions, but she plays them really big, so you can't help noticing. Band side-kicks Cynthia Myers and Marcia McBroome have a few more expressions than Read, but they aren't nearly so powerfully emphatic about it, which is probably just as well. The script is by Roger Ebert, of all people, and it tends to show that those who can do and those who can't criticize. Even so, Ebert gets off some pretty memorable licks in terms of one-liners. ("You're a groovy boy. I'd like to strap you on sometime" and "This is my happening and it freaks me out!" are probably the two most famous.) As for director Russ Meyer... It's actually difficult to tell from this film if Russ Meyer is just a really bad director or a really bad director with a sense of style. My bet is on the latter: his directorial talents make me think of what might happen if Robert Altman dropped acid, and he's very consistent about it. The camera shots are jumpy and always seem to be a couple of frames short of what you expect; the over-the-top dialogue is played even more so; and in a weird sort of way the film has an aesthetic spin that can only be described as 1970s pop-trash on a collision course with Theatre of the Absurd. Whatever the case, it seems pretty clear that everything on screen is intentional, if not perhaps done with any great sense of deliberation. Now, this is NOT going to appeal to every viewer. You have to have a really warped sense of humor to get the joke--and you're never really sure if the joke is intentional or accidental. But if you're looking for something incredibly bizarre... Oooo-weeeeeeee, baby! --GFT (Amazon.com Reviewer)--
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