Crooked
government officials bilk the poor peasants out of their hard-earned money by
forcing them to pay exorbitant taxes.
Don Diego (Douglas Frey) gets wind of their thievery and sets out to
make things right. By day, he poses as a
gay man to throw the bad guys off his scent.
By night, he takes up the mask of Zorro to stick it to the man while he’s
giving it to the ladies.
While
I like the idea of a sexed-up Zorro, the sex scenes in The Erotic Adventures of
Zorro are a bit of a mixed bag. The big
problem is that the forced sex scenes are mostly unpleasant. When a man can’t pay his taxes, his virgin
daughters are deflowered by the disgusting officials. There’s even a scene where a woman is tied up
and threatened with a snake. The orgy
scene goes on way too long too.
The
best sex scenes involve the sultry Penny Boran.
The highlight comes when she introduces her niece (Jacqueline Giroux) to the joys of lesbianism. Her
seduction of Don Diego is rather steamy too.
It’s a shame Boran wasn’t given more opportunities to disrobe because
she’s easily the best thing about the movie.
Produced
by the legendary sleaze wizard, David F. Friedman, The Erotic Adventures of
Zorro runs a steep 102 minutes, which is way longer than any cheesy skin flick
Zorro spoof needs to be. The
swashbuckling action and swordfight sequences are better than you might expect
though. The costumes and sets are well
done too, and the cinematography looks much better than your run of the mill
adult sex comedy. However, the jokes are
lame and many of the characters (some of whom have cheesy names like “Phil
Latio”) are unbearable.
It
is interesting to note that the plot relies heavily on Don Diego pretending to
be gay to outwit the villains. This makes
it kind of like the opposite of Zorro, The Gay Blade, which came out nine years
later. Of course, that film had the benefit
of a bigger budget, name stars, and jokes that were actually funny. This one has none of those things, but there’s
enough skin here to keep it from being a total Z movie.
AKA: The Sexcapades of Don Diego.
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