With having found Russ Meyer's debut film Mr Teas and His Playthings to be a disappointingly plodding affair,I began to hope,that with the then Mrs Meyers-Eve Meyer, (who after divorcing Russ in 1969,tragically died in a plane crash in 1977, age 48) being one of the main stars of the film,that Eve would give his second feature the much needed extra spark that his debut lacked.
The plot:
Making sure to stay hidden and keep a good distance so as not to be seen,Eve begins to spy on a handyman.Keeping up with the handyman as he visits various work sites,Eve keeps a detailed note on each of the occasions that a woman gets anywhere near the handyman.Relising that the handyman is about to finish his days work,Eve decides to make her "big move"
View on the film:
Expanding on themes in his debut, (deep breath!) editor/cinematography/producer/writer/director Russ Meyer uses the involvement of his wife Eve as a way to have one of the main characters be the narrator of the movie,instead of the disembodied voice featured in Meyer's debut.
Leaving behind the riffing of Public Information Films from his first movie,Meyer creates a brash & colourful live action cartoon movie,which looks to have been pulled from a Looney Tunes short.
Just about keeping the movie on tracks from never becoming dull (although,in what is perhaps a sign of being slightly restrained,Mrs Meyer's does not appear fully naked in the movie-boo!)Russ Meyer brilliantly fills the soundtrack with scrambled classical music and over exaggerated sounds that perfectly compliment the brash colours in giving the movie a cheerful cartoon feel.
The movie also features a number of eye (s)-catchingly beautiful woman that characters like Pepe Le Pew would fall head over heels for,with a particular highlight of the movie being a scene where the un-named handy man climbs up a pole,sees the words "red paint" at the top and lets go,but stays in the air until he sees Meyer's cartoon world underneath him.
The plot:
Making sure to stay hidden and keep a good distance so as not to be seen,Eve begins to spy on a handyman.Keeping up with the handyman as he visits various work sites,Eve keeps a detailed note on each of the occasions that a woman gets anywhere near the handyman.Relising that the handyman is about to finish his days work,Eve decides to make her "big move"
View on the film:
Expanding on themes in his debut, (deep breath!) editor/cinematography/producer/writer/director Russ Meyer uses the involvement of his wife Eve as a way to have one of the main characters be the narrator of the movie,instead of the disembodied voice featured in Meyer's debut.
Leaving behind the riffing of Public Information Films from his first movie,Meyer creates a brash & colourful live action cartoon movie,which looks to have been pulled from a Looney Tunes short.
Just about keeping the movie on tracks from never becoming dull (although,in what is perhaps a sign of being slightly restrained,Mrs Meyer's does not appear fully naked in the movie-boo!)Russ Meyer brilliantly fills the soundtrack with scrambled classical music and over exaggerated sounds that perfectly compliment the brash colours in giving the movie a cheerful cartoon feel.
The movie also features a number of eye (s)-catchingly beautiful woman that characters like Pepe Le Pew would fall head over heels for,with a particular highlight of the movie being a scene where the un-named handy man climbs up a pole,sees the words "red paint" at the top and lets go,but stays in the air until he sees Meyer's cartoon world underneath him.