Forbidden Adventures is a costume softcore comedy anthology flick from the director of Playgirls and the Vampire. Like most anthologies, it’s uneven as all get out. Like most Italian sex comedies, it’s not very funny. That said, it’s an innocuous slice of cheesy ‘70s skin cinema.
In the wraparound segment, “Tribunal” (**) various women are brought before the court and put on trial for their various sexual transgressions. These scenes wouldn’t have been all that bad if they weren’t mired with unfunny comedy bits and slapstick schtick. Overall, it’s a serviceable but undistinguished way to tie all the stories together.
The first “case” is “The Naughty Nun” (** ½). A sexy babe (Angela Covello) is on the eve of becoming a nun in a convent. This cheeses off her boyfriend, Enrico (Franco Agostini) because that means they can’t screw anymore. After one night in the habit, she sends for Enrico to come and make love to her. Let’s just say it doesn’t go as expected.
Like with the wraparound segments, the comedy is painfully unfunny. However, the surprise twist at the end is genuinely amusing. If only it had a bit more T & A, it could’ve been a winner.
Up next is “The Trick” (**). A lowly housekeeper named Lisa (Orchidea de Santis) becomes privy to the fact that the lady of the house (Shirley Corrigan) is sleeping with the handsome new butler under her husband’s nose. Turns out, she and the butler are in cahoots and have an elaborate blackmail scheme in motion. Naturally, it all winds up going south.
This tale is more or less straightforward. Fortunately, it doesn’t have as much comedy as some of the other segments do. A healthy dose of skin certainly helps too. However, the twists are predictable, and it all seems to get wrapped up way too quickly in the end.
Femi Benussi stars in the next tale, “4 Wives” (** ½). She’s an unhappily married woman who gets tired of her husband drinking and gambling with his friends at all hours of the night. After a bout of drunken antics, he and his pals like to take turns plowing the local farm girl. Femi spies on them one night and tells the men’s wives the next morning. The ladies then hatch a plot to get back at their husbands once and for all.
This one is thematically similar to the other stories. (People having sex with someone posing as another person.) It works slightly better than the others, thanks to its light comedic touch and the reliance on durable bedroom farce cliches. That doesn’t exactly translate into actual laughs, but Benussi’s performance (and nude scenes) is fun to watch.
The final tale is “The Miracle” (**). Betta (Rosemarie Lindt) leaves her loutish priest husband to be with a hunky friar. When his order catches him giving Betta the old in-out, they coerce him into joining in on the action. Problems arise when she becomes pregnant.
Again, this story covers a lot of the same ground as the others that preceded it. The religious sex scenes are similar to the ones found in The Naughty Nun, except with the roles reversed. (Nuns are swapped out for Friars.) Ultimately, it suffers from an overall lack of humor (not to mention skin), which makes it a cut below the rest.
AKA: Tales of Erotica.
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