Russ Meyer's Pandora Peaks

Rating:
Summary: Where is Pandora
Review: "Pandora Peaks" is the wrong title for this DVD!
It should be named the "random scrap" or "Russ Meyers show of objects". Pandora is seldom seen but traffic lights, cars, houses, desert... All in all, Pandora is seen a maximum of 5 minutes out of 72 minutes. These 5 minutes are spread over the whole time as small increments between 2 to 15 seconds. Often she is seen only from far away. This DVD is not to recommend.

Rating:
Summary: Where is Pandora
Review: "Pandora Peaks" is the wrong title for this DVD!
It should be named the "random scrap" or "Russ Meyers show of objects". Pandora is seldom seen but traffic lights, cars, houses, desert... All in all, Pandora is seen a maximum of 5 minutes out of 72 minutes. These 5 minutes are spread over the whole time as small increments between 2 to 15 seconds. Often she is seen only from far away. This DVD is not to recommend.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing "Russ Meyer's Autobiographic" Film
Review: After so many years of silence, the king of sexploitation Russ Meyer came back with "Pandra Peaks." Ostensibly this film is about Russ's autobiography with Pandra Peek (and other ladies') comments on themselves, narrated by himself, Pandra Peeks, and three other ladies, but what they talk is little related to the life of this iconic director, who started his career as a WW II cameraman, or anything about the females here.

Remember, here Russ Meyer is NOT making a porno film as we know these days, and he didn't in the past. The film itself is about 72 minutes, in which you see the bits of naked women dancing, posing, or talking silly things -- like, "Big breasts never hurt anyone" -- and these brief shots come and go in a speed of the lightening. (Russ Meyer loves fact-cutting, and dislikes long, continuous shots). So, what you see in "Pandra" is the intercutting between naked ladies with big breasts (Russ's trademark), and the shots of seemingly meaningless cuts of cars, traffic signs, tape recorders (symbolizing that this film is an intereview?) or Russ himself holding a camera.

It is good to see Mr. Meyer looking fine (and Henry Roland too, who appeared in several of his films -- as 'Otto' in the cult film "Beyoud the Valley of Dolls"), but as the film has no story to tell, you soon get bored with watching this one doing the same thing over and over again. Russ Meyer's taut editing is interesting to see (he loves editing, and good at it), but what we see remains the same all through the film -- chicks, chicks, chicks, with silly sound effects -- actually, even 72 minutes was too long for me. (I watched it in Japan, in the officially held Russ Meyer film festival.) Yes, I like his films, but not this one.

There's nothing you would like to see in this film, unless you are a die-hard fans of his films in the 60s and 70s such as great "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" "Beyond the Valley of Dolls" or "Vixen." And even fans would lament over this one.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing "Russ Meyer's Autobiographic" Film
Review: After so many years of silence, the king of sexploitation Russ Meyer came back with "Pandra Peaks." Ostensibly this film is about Russ's autobiography with Pandra Peek (and other ladies') comments on themselves, narrated by himself, Pandra Peeks, and three other ladies, but what they talk is little related to the life of this iconic director, who started his career as a WW II cameraman, or anything about the females here.

Remember, here Russ Meyer is NOT making a porno film as we know these days, and he didn't in the past. The film itself is about 72 minutes, in which you see the bits of naked women dancing, posing, or talking silly things -- like, "Big breasts never hurt anyone" -- and these brief shots come and go in a speed of the lightening. (Russ Meyer loves fact-cutting, and dislikes long, continuous shots). So, what you see in "Pandra" is the intercutting between naked ladies with big breasts (Russ's trademark), and the shots of seemingly meaningless cuts of cars, traffic signs, tape recorders (symbolizing that this film is an intereview?) or Russ himself holding a camera.

It is good to see Mr. Meyer looking fine (and Henry Roland too, who appeared in several of his films -- as 'Otto' in the cult film "Beyoud the Valley of Dolls"), but as the film has no story to tell, you soon get bored with watching this one doing the same thing over and over again. Russ Meyer's taut editing is interesting to see (he loves editing, and good at it), but what we see remains the same all through the film -- chicks, chicks, chicks, with silly sound effects -- actually, even 72 minutes was too long for me. (I watched it in Japan, in the officially held Russ Meyer film festival.) Yes, I like his films, but not this one.

There's nothing you would like to see in this film, unless you are a die-hard fans of his films in the 60s and 70s such as great "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" "Beyond the Valley of Dolls" or "Vixen." And even fans would lament over this one.

Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your money, Kupo! ^o^
Review: This is a rip off as Pandora Peaks barely features in the footage.