William R. Johnson and William Kerwin star as two aspiring porn producers (based on Herschell Gordon Lewis and David. F. Friedman, the director and producer of the film) who walk out of a skin flick (Lewis and Friedman’s The Adventures of Lucky Pierre) thinking they could do it better. Together they decide to quit their jobs, strike out on their own, and make a nudie movie (Nature’s Nudniks). They soon learn making an adults-only feature is tougher than it looks.
The comedy is pretty inane, as is usually the case with these sorts of things. Kerwin and Johnson ham it up way too much and their antics fail to generate any laughs. What’s worse, their silent movie-style mugging gets in the way of the nudity. Lewis also overdoes it with the comedic musical score that overscores the already unfunny material. I admire the fact that Lewis and Friedman were poking fun at themselves, but ultimately, they’re probably the only ones who found any of the behind-the-scenes humor funny. It doesn’t help that many of the sequences end on a predictable note. (There’s no film in the camera, the lens cap is still on, etc.)
The nudie scenes are OK. They’re mostly your typical cheesecake stuff. The models sunbathe, slowly undress for the camera, rub their butt cheeks so they make squeaky balloon noises, that sort of thing. None of it is exactly titillating since it’s all sandwiched between the meta scenes of the frantic filmmakers trying to capture the action for the camera. However, once the film gains a little momentum about halfway through, the nudity becomes more plentiful, which at the very least makes it watchable. The only real standout in the cast is Christina Castel, who plays Audrey, the starlet who gets naked at the drop of a hat. Whenever she’s on screen going au natural, Boin-n-g might make you schwing.
AKA: Untamed Women in Nature in the Raw.
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