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Francesca 'Kitten' Natividad, Ann Marie, Ken Kerr, Steve Tracy, Henry Rowland ... see more see more... , DeForest Covan , Aram Katcher , Uschi Digard , Mary Gavin , Stuart Lancaster , Candy Samples , Robert E. Pearson , June Mack , Patrick M. Wright

Like most of cult director Russ Meyer's later films, his final ode to the superhuman bosom largely dispenses with plot in favor of episodic sexual sight-gags. The ostensible storyline, narrated by Stu... read more read more...art Lancaster in hilarious deadpan style, deals with the bedroom hijinx of small-town America -- in this case the fictitious community of Rio Dio, Texas. Junkyard worker Lamar Shedd (Ken Kerr) is in trouble with his sexually ravenous wife Lavonia (Francesca "Kitten" Natividad) because he can only achieve satisfaction through unconventional openings. While Lavonia proceeds to bed down the local garbageman (Pat Wright) and others with more standard tastes, Lamar is put through a series of increasingly silly "cures," including a visit to a chainsaw-wielding gay dentist (Robert Pearson). Eventually, a radio faith-healer with enormous breasts (Anne Marie) gets him back on the right track. The amazing June Mack, who looks like she stepped straight out of a Robert Crumb cartoon, is the film's highlight as Kerr's insatiable black employer, Junk Yard Sal. The usual comic fight scenes are augmented here with different colors of blood for each character, but the high-voltage action of many earlier Meyer films is absent, as he was obviously trying to keep up with the booming porn market by including as many naughty close-ups as possible. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

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Directed by: Russ Meyer

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  • fb1142797643
    November 12, 2011
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    As the recycled title indicates, "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens" is director Russ Meyer in self-parody mode. Roger Ebert (yes, that Roger Ebert) co-wrote the screenplay under the name "R. Hyde," but don't assume this means the film doesn't stink. Because it does.

    Ebert ... read moredid have to string quite a few words together between sex scenes, due to recurring spiels by an evangelical radio announcer (Anne Marie) and a droll narrator (Meyer veteran Stuart Lancaster). But the story is junk. Lamar (Ken Kerr, a Jeff Foxworthy type) is married to buxom nymphomaniac Lavonia (Kitten Nativdad), but can't get himself interested in anything but anal sex. The resulting arguments lead to both partners chasing gratification elsewhere. Other humping cretins include the staff of a junkyard, a gay dentist, his bisexual nurse, a door-to-door lingerie salesman, a horny garbageman and an old man who craves sex in a coffin. Meyer himself appears at the end, taking over the narration when Lancaster finally exits to grab some lovin' for himself.

    It's dicey to call this film "pornography" -- the sex is more graphic than in early Meyer works, but this is still an old-fashioned skin flick. The couplings are far too cartoonish to be erotic (the men tend to go cross-eyed when they orgasm, which tells you all you need to know about the film's subtlety) and, while there are a few shots of erect penises and lots of close-ups of Natividad's pubic bush, the action is not really explicit. Of course, this is a Russ Meyer movie so there are enormous, bouncing breasts galore.

    The dubious treats also include some tasteless sound effects, one winceable moment of a hot light bulb applied to someone's scrotum and a baffling motif of injured men bleeding from the mouth in impossible colors. I was ready for the film to end after 10 minutes, but I stuck it out.
  • August 12, 2008
    What the fuck do you want from Russ Meyers? It's a low budget softcore porn with a ton of sex, plot and scripting so goofy it's almost too funny to laugh, frantic repeated cutting, and boobs so big it doesn't make logical sense that people didn't suffocate making this movie. Ri... read morepe for drunken man parties and rotten for anything else.

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Shane Burridge
April 30, 2003
Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews

In his early days, Meyer was spoofing the genre; in ULTRA VIXENS he is spoofing himself

March 26, 2009
Variety

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Jonathan Rosenbaum
April 30, 2003
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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Cole Smithey
September 17, 2005
Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

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Emanuel Levy
August 12, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Oz
April 30, 2003
Oz, eFilmCritic.com

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August 25, 2007
Time Out

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May 25, 2003
Film4

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