If
You Don’t Stop It… You’ll Go Blind!!! is little more than a collection of vignettes
of old dirty jokes that have been staged and reenacted with actors. They were then strung together until the
filmmakers got it to a feature length and then released to an indifferent
public. Some sequences feel like
something out of a vaudeville act.
Others look like a Playboy cartoon come to life. None of them are particularly funny.
Most
of the jokes are fairly obvious. If
you’re a connoisseur of bad jokes (like I am), you’ll probably be able to spot
where they’re heading as soon as you hear the set-up. Heck, some of these jokes were old long
before 1975.
I
do admire directors Keefe Brasselle and Bob Levy’s determination to see all of
this through to the bitter end. It’s
like no matter how bad the joke is, they commit to it 100%. I could’ve done without the lame musical
numbers (one is set in a whorehouse) that are really only there to help pad out
the running time. The amateurish cast
don’t do much to elevate the material either.
All of this winds up becoming repetitive, and it feels much longer than
the seventy-seven-minute running time suggests.
Since it’s loaded with women who are more than willing to get naked in
nearly every vignette, it’s hard to be too critical about it.
Speaking
of which, the biggest star (in more than one sense of the word) is Uschi Digard. She appears in multiple roles and always
winds up flashing her enormous chest. Smokey and the Bandit’s Pat McCormick has a
cameo hosting an awards show, but he isn’t really given much to do.
A
sequel, obviously called Can I Do It Till I Need Glasses? featured Robin
Williams in his film debut.
AKA: You Must Be Joking.
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