Sunday, August 11, 2019

THE VIXENS OF KUNG FU (A TALE OF YIN YANG) (1975) ** ½


A hooker is walking through the woods when three hoods shoot her with an “anesthesia gun” (the hell?) and have their way with her.  Bobby Aster takes her mouth, Jamie Gillis goes down south, and the other guy just jerks off in her socks.  She is eventually found by C.J. Laing who runs an all-woman army of Kung Fu warriors who live in the woods.  Laing nurses her back to health, and by “nurses her back to health”, I mean she bangs her on a bear skin rug in the middle of the forest before training her in the martial arts.

The Vixens of Kung Fu (A Tale of Yin and Yang) is a Kung Fu/porno hybrid.  It’s decidedly less successful when it’s trying to be a full-fledged Kung Fu movie than a porno.  That said, I can’t say the porno stuff is exactly titillating either, but there are a few humorous moments to be had here to make it almost worth watching.  

A little of this nonsense goes a long way.  Ultimately, it’s just too damned long (even at a relatively scant 71 minutes) and eventually wears out its welcome.  I know it’s futile to criticize the plot, but I found it odd the hooker didn’t learn Kung Fu and use it to get revenge on Gillis and company.  Instead, Laing trains her to get it on with a rival male Kung Fu master who only appears once the film is halfway over.  

The most memorable scene has the Kung Fu girls sitting around meditating until their pussies start literally smoking.  The nude Kung Fu fights are amusing as well (they contain jump cuts to make it look like the participants are moving fast), but they’re all too brief.  While the choreography may leave something to be desired, the film does end with not one, but two freezeframe shots of people jumping into the air in slow motion, so at least its heart is in the right place. 

AKA:  Vixens of Kung Fu.

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