Six people go to an elite sex club run by Mr. McMichael (a lively and funny performance by Marc Stevens). Said club specializes in making one's innermost carnal fantasies come true. Director Richard Mailer keeps the rambling narrative moving along at a swift enough pace and maintains a likable lighthearted tone throughout, but alas doesn't make the sexual set pieces really sizzle the way that they could and should with the notable exception of an incest-themed vignette between Veronica (fetching Jo Ann Peters) and a father lookalike. The segment featuring nerdy wallflower Eloise (plain jane Linda Trussell) doing the nasty with aggressive black stud Pork Chop (an appropriately crude and intimidating John Lawrence) provides some hilariously offensive and decidedly politically incorrect humor, but the other set pieces just ain't so hot (a guy gets roughed up by a dominatrix wearing an Afro wig, two dudes tag team a woman, and so on). Fortunately, the always welcome and invigorating presence of porn comic thespian Bubby Astyr helps a lot, it's a treat to see New York City in its dirty'n'dingy 70's glory, and a surprise cameo appearance by Tara the Wonder Dog delivers a nice chuckle towards the end. Although marred by an often obvious two-cent budget (the clearly dubbed in moaning and groaning is especially jarring), this one nonetheless qualifies as a passable enough slice of Golden Age smut.
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Fun, trivial porn lacks real fantasy
lor_31 July 2015
Porn is a form of fantasy almost by definition - one misguided prof has even termed it "utopian" in the sense that it's based on a world where sex comes free and easy. That's the trouble with FANTASY CLUB OF America - with no budget and little imagination its aspiration to the sort of fantasy one associates with a Comicon fails.
So what we have is six New Yorkers who gather under the dubious but watchful eye of Marc Stevens, to indulge in some sex that falls under the heading of fanciful. Director Richard Mailer keeps the energy level up, so the hour of XXX action passes swiftly.
Stevens stages the sex acts for his club members in a bunch of rooms decorated with what looks like hanging aluminum foil on the walls. What's meant to seem festive just looks cheap.
The women, not that familiar amongst the stable of '70s NYC porn talent, are okay looking, and the mousy blonde Eloise with glasses is fixed up with a tall Black stud named "Pork Chop" for a round of mixed-combo action. Typical of these films wearing their incorrectness as a badge of pride, he exclaims while she rides his cock: "Not bad for a dumb white bitch".
Other so-called fantasies include group sex, a lookalike found for the other bustier heroine Jo Ann Peters's dad (as a young man) so that she can enjoy vicarious incest, and even a comical hint of a room dedicated to bestiality (with film's final meager attempt at a gag presenting innocently Tara the Wonder Dog).
Stevens' improvising is a matter of taste, but overall the film's loose approach leading to an inevitable orgy is easy to take.
So what we have is six New Yorkers who gather under the dubious but watchful eye of Marc Stevens, to indulge in some sex that falls under the heading of fanciful. Director Richard Mailer keeps the energy level up, so the hour of XXX action passes swiftly.
Stevens stages the sex acts for his club members in a bunch of rooms decorated with what looks like hanging aluminum foil on the walls. What's meant to seem festive just looks cheap.
The women, not that familiar amongst the stable of '70s NYC porn talent, are okay looking, and the mousy blonde Eloise with glasses is fixed up with a tall Black stud named "Pork Chop" for a round of mixed-combo action. Typical of these films wearing their incorrectness as a badge of pride, he exclaims while she rides his cock: "Not bad for a dumb white bitch".
Other so-called fantasies include group sex, a lookalike found for the other bustier heroine Jo Ann Peters's dad (as a young man) so that she can enjoy vicarious incest, and even a comical hint of a room dedicated to bestiality (with film's final meager attempt at a gag presenting innocently Tara the Wonder Dog).
Stevens' improvising is a matter of taste, but overall the film's loose approach leading to an inevitable orgy is easy to take.
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