Cicciabomba (1982) Poster

(1982)

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3/10
A cute story ruined by unlikeable star.
ocoee9615 November 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I am a huge fan of Italian comedies - particularly the '70's vintage films. This one, however, was obviously a vehicle to promote the pop star of the day, Donatella Rettore. Ms. Rettore is best when she's attired in her "fatty girl" suit - playing a high school girl who is relentlessly bullied because of her weight. But once the costume is shed at the 30 minute mark, a hard-edged woman who looks every bit her 27 years (if not more) replaces the otherwise sympathetic character, and the film quickly swirls down the drain.

Furthermore, contrary to another review, this film has absolutely no pornographic overtones, bare skin, rough language or the like. Today, it would be rated PG.

And lastly, whoever translated the audio for the English subtitles used by Mya Communications shouldn't quit their day job. They help one get the gist of what's going on, but otherwise, they're horrid.
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10/10
This is a hilarious comedy, and I don't speak Italian!
bigger-211 June 2007
Back in June of 1986 I was doing archaeology in Sardinia -- our team was staying in the central town of Marcomer, which is also an Italian Navy base (for training) and we students decided to see an Italian porn film.

Now, we had all see the Italian porn comics on sale at the train station (gross outs) and expected to spend the time going "Eeeuu!" Mostly we expected to watch the Italian boys leer at the screen. We were going 'cultural anthropology.' Our concierge said the film was dirty.

The movie is about an overweight Italian girl who runs an anti-clerical radio station in an Italian hill town who pines for a young man who ignores her. She wins a trip to Anita Ekberg's New York fat farm, where in many grunting scenes the fat suit is removed. Ekberg's male aid clearly has his eye on her.

Fat Girl returns home as a stacked American blond and discovers that her younger sister has been seduced and abandoned and left pregnant at the altar by the idiot boy she had originally had a liking for.

The rest of the tale is her revenge. And no, it isn't something from Elizabethan theater. The movie is funny and sweet and I would show it to a nine-year-old.

And no, we didn't feel like we had been gypped either.
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