Wednesday, January 19, 2022

CHERRY HILL HIGH (1977) ** ½

Five high school girls go on a two-week long bicycling trip the summer before going away to college.  While camping, they learn that they are all virgins and soon set out to pop their cherries.  To make things interesting, they hold a contest to see who can lose their virginity in the most original way.  To their surprise, their seemingly square chaperone (Linda McInerney) helps them on their quest to get laid.  

One girl hooks up with a shark wrestler who makes a lot of terrible shark puns before they do it in a shark tank.  Another picks up a motorcyclist wearing a helmet that winds up being Mary (Abigail Lesley is Back in Town) Mendum.  Later, she gives it a shot with a real man when she gives head to a race car driver during a race on a figure 8 track.  The French girl gets deflowered by a “ghost” in a haunted house (in a coffin, no less).  The teacher even gets in on the action by seducing the owner of a vineyard and balling in a vat of grapes.  (Lucy, eat your heart out!)  There’s also an odd scene involving a guy in a chicken costume at a Let’s Make a Deal-style game show.  The highlight though is when a girl gets it on with an “alien”.    

You have to deal with a lot of lame comedy and nature scenes in the beginning but stick with it.  It gets better as it goes along.  Whenever things threaten to get slow, there’s a topless swimming scene, a topless water fight, and/or plenty of softcore sex to keep your attention from waning.  

Overall, there are some good moments, just not enough to push it over the top.  I liked that all the girls stand around and watch their friends deflowered and give them ratings as if it was a swim meet.  However, many of the scenes are too dark, but that was probably the fault of the print I saw.  The dubbing is also so bad in the outdoor scenes that you’d swear it was one of those ‘70s German sex comedies.  While Cherry Hill High is repetitive (the recap of all the girls’ conquests at the end wasn’t necessary) and slight, it’s still fairly amusing and has just enough skin to make it semi-recommended.  

Director Alex E. Goitein was also responsible for the inane Cheerleaders Beach Party.  

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