AS LONG AS THEIR FLESH REMAINS FIRM…
Somewhat incoherent plotting but the girls are fetching and the thin drug smuggling plot allows for a lot of bloody gunplay amidst the playful carnality.
Where Russ MEYER gets so much right about human sexuality lies in his Carry On understanding of the essentially libidinous nature of women. And the difficulty men have in keeping up with their insatiable demands. Without this full appreciation, his films would fall as flat as a pancake. And for sheer fleshy exuberance, these girls cannot be beaten.
The film also begins with a political tract against the dangers of both censorship and of trying to control the lives of others through invidious resentment at their lack of anhedonia. It also begins (& ends) with a moral homily about the dangers the young are exposed to through the morally empty and, thus, thrill seeking nature of the capitalist West. MEYER's surreal flair for incongruous – yet somehow fitting – images is well to the fore here as well.
Common Law Cabin (aka How Much Loving Does A Normal Couple Need?) is a mess made by an apparent Russ MEYER impersonator who lacks the wit, style and imagination of the better artist he is pastiching. The usual preoccupations with the desert, sexism, racism, phallic & vulval objects and rapacious women are in evidence but never form a coherent whole that one can fully appreciate or relish.
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