The Pink Angels

[Andrew]

A transvestite biker gang goes on a road trip.  They encounter suspicious straight bikers, prejudiced pigs, and military fascists.  This film is a comedy.

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[SkullBat308]

  wow sounds.....interesting I would like to see this, it sounds FAR OUT MAN!

[BoyScoutKevin]

Hey! What can I say: "Tightie whities!"

[randy109]

Jesus. Borntreger I never thought you'd stoop this low.

Please do this:

1. Keep it in the closet.
2. Triple-lock the doors.
3. Melt keys w/oxy-acetelyne torch.

Oh wait, I forgot: "Don't ask, don't tell".
Guess you're up for a promotion now!

This should be amended to: "Don't ask don't tell DON'T POST"

[Andrew]

Jesus. Borntreger I never thought you'd stoop this low.

Either you are a fellow Marine, whose email I am not familiar with, who is giving me a friendly dig, or else something about my review actually upset you.  I suspect the prior.

If anything, I think that this review was quite neutral on the film's center subject of crossdressers.  Compare it to "Leeches," and here I felt that I was much more focused on the stereotypes, attempt at satire, and other elements of the film.

I mean, how can you ignore a film with a young, mean looking Dan Haggerty riding a motorcycle with a transvestite on the back?

[Fraggoth]

Hoo-boy the stuff you go through... I actually had the dubious pleasure (if I were a masochist and really into the whip,) of seeing this about 2-3 months ago. It was in-and-amongst some smallish DVD compilation called... Drive-In Classics or somesuch... oh, and there it is at the top of the page! Silly me. I'd had this loaned to my by a coworker who shares a similar taste in movies. Truly, this one was the biggest doozy of the bunch, and some of them were just awful, real Psychic Numbing time. I never realized that the bikes were purple... I was too busy trying to forget the... >gag< Old Lady Sex Scene >retch<... Thank you for all your readers and devotees for not going into great detail... That scene is just so damn sobering that even if you're completely p**sed (drunk), high on a cocktail of acid, heroine, and paint thinner you will be INSTANTLY brought back to reality by that scene. Not that I've personally done this; all I know is I wanted a straight morphine drip to forget the pain. Catatonic for days, I swear... don't know how you're coherent. EXCELLENT review though. Thanks!

[Sardu]

"The Cops - These guys are loaded for bear."

I see what you did there.   

[Andrew]

Hoo-boy the stuff you go through... I actually had the dubious pleasure (if I were a masochist and really into the whip,) of seeing this about 2-3 months ago. It was in-and-amongst some smallish DVD compilation called... Drive-In Classics or somesuch... oh, and there it is at the top of the page! Silly me. I'd had this loaned to my by a coworker who shares a similar taste in movies. Truly, this one was the biggest doozy of the bunch, and some of them were just awful, real Psychic Numbing time. I never realized that the bikes were purple... I was too busy trying to forget the... >gag< Old Lady Sex Scene >retch<... Thank you for all your readers and devotees for not going into great detail... That scene is just so damn sobering that even if you're completely p**sed (drunk), high on a cocktail of acid, heroine, and paint thinner you will be INSTANTLY brought back to reality by that scene. Not that I've personally done this; all I know is I wanted a straight morphine drip to forget the pain. Catatonic for days, I swear... don't know how you're coherent. EXCELLENT review though. Thanks!

I was able to stay pretty sane through "The Pink Angels," because it was such an oddity.  The humor could be downright painful, and the old lady makeout scene was not a favorite moment at all.  It was the basic premise, and the dialog that kept me entertained.  Also, you have to agree that the ending came out of nowhere.  A mass lynching, in a comedy?

"The Pink Angels" is probably the weirdest movie in that set.  "Van Nuys Blvd" stuck out on account of the catchy theme song, and "The Babysitter" was memorable for being creepy, and having a wholly unexpected ending (the wife's reaction).

"The Cops - These guys are loaded for bear."

I see what you did there.   

Thank you, I was quite proud of that wordplay.

[Bud]

Many road trip movies of this era had endings where the main character or one or more of the characters dies.  I think it started with Easy Rider.  As a kid (early 70's) I saw a lot of movies in the theater where they always died at the end.  It usually happened in movies about people trying to be free in America but came up against the oppression of that freedom by mainstream America.  You can be free in America, it's what makes us great but don't be weird about it and don't push it.  Usually mainstream America won and the counter culture character was killed by them.   Symbolism I suppose.

Best line of the movie:
Oh my god!  That brunette looks just like Bernice!

[Andrew]

Many road trip movies of this era had endings where the main character or one or more of the characters dies.  I think it started with Easy Rider.  As a kid (early 70's) I saw a lot of movies in the theater where they always died at the end.  It usually happened in movies about people trying to be free in America but came up against the oppression of that freedom by mainstream America.  You can be free in America, it's what makes us great but don't be weird about it and don't push it.  Usually mainstream America won and the counter culture character was killed by them.   Symbolism I suppose.

The idea that the lynching ending to the film is an example of overdone satire (the heavily armed police being another) has a lot going for it. 

What threw me off here is that the lynching is the only part played perfectly straight.  We see the general standing stoically under the tree of judgment, and the camera pulls back as the ending theme song plays.  The lynched men just hang there.  All the other times, silliness intruded.  Not so with that ending. 

[Trevor]

Jesus. Borntreger I never thought you'd stoop this low.

Now that wasn't nice. 

Write reviews as good as Andrew's and I might possibly give a damn about what you have to say about his.