Earlier this afternoon I spent some time in the company of Jane Fonda. She was playing Barbarella from the film of the same name and looking fine she was beautiful to look at. The film was directed by her husband at the time Roger Vadim. Over the years the film has developed into a bit of cult classic help by Fonda.
She is gorgeous in the film wonderful costumed, and proper eye candy, I still enjoyed the film.
In 1968 when the film was released, I was a young 8-year-old so I was not in the queue at the cinema. I cannot remember the first time I saw it but it must have been the mid seventies on late night TV. I do remember it was a Sunday night on BBC2.
The film is basically Barbarella crashes on a planet and gets almost killed by a bunch of kids with there crazy dolls with sharp teeth, gets laid but some guy in a bear suit. On earth where Barbarella was from they did away with normal sex for popping a pill and holding hands but after a tumble with bear man she put the pills away.
Her spaceship fix to takes off all to crash again and comes across an angel. In the mazed city where he lives she meets many strange people. After he saves her from any attack he takes her home to his nest, she gets laid.
They fly to a near city where they are a separated and she his near rape but saved by some woman while the angel his is lead away by the kook city dwellers, almost gets laid by a woman, she finds who she was looking for the scientist Duran Duran. The women who saved Barbarella earlier have boy she has the hots for Pretty Pretty but it this the angel she wants and she try's to laid him unsuccessful she throws Barbarella in a cage full of killer budgies. Our hero is captured by the resistance where much to disappointment their leader wants sex the earth way, pills and hands.
Her next sexual ordeal comes that the hands of Duran Duran in his Excessive Machine, a genuine sex organ where in the hands of an expert on the keyboard player can drive a victim to death by pleasure, she breaks it.
Some people call the film soft porn but there are no sex scenes in the film. It is all suggested actually, the only time we see Jane Fonda without clothes is in the opening of the film. It is during the credits. She is inside her spaceship, a place with no gravity, floating in the air while she undresses and sways to the music. Arty in its entire beauty.
Her spaceship fix to takes off all to crash again and comes across an angel. In the mazed city where he lives she meets many strange people. After he saves her from any attack he takes her home to his nest, she gets laid.
They fly to a near city where they are a separated and she his near rape but saved by some woman while the angel his is lead away by the kook city dwellers, almost gets laid by a woman, she finds who she was looking for the scientist Duran Duran. The women who saved Barbarella earlier have boy she has the hots for Pretty Pretty but it this the angel she wants and she try's to laid him unsuccessful she throws Barbarella in a cage full of killer budgies. Our hero is captured by the resistance where much to disappointment their leader wants sex the earth way, pills and hands.
Her next sexual ordeal comes that the hands of Duran Duran in his Excessive Machine, a genuine sex organ where in the hands of an expert on the keyboard player can drive a victim to death by pleasure, she breaks it.
Some people call the film soft porn but there are no sex scenes in the film. It is all suggested actually, the only time we see Jane Fonda without clothes is in the opening of the film. It is during the credits. She is inside her spaceship, a place with no gravity, floating in the air while she undresses and sways to the music. Arty in its entire beauty.
Barbarella on a mission to find Duran Duran not the 80s New Romantic band doesn't not end up as leader of the plant and the angel fly's away with Barbarella and the wicked Queen.
A perfectly brainless romp that will not tax your mind but give you a few chuckles. If you are expecting a Sci fi movie, you are setting yourself up for a big letdown. If you are expecting a serious movie, do not bother. If you are expecting a well-acted movie, again, do not bother. Just sit back, open your eyes, get dumb, and watch. Brilliantly bad. No one can make something this bad knowingly but that is what makes it so good. Off the back of this I am watching another Fonda film, Klute.
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