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« on: March 10, 2008, 11:16:14 PM »

PLEASURE IN PARADISE (1992)



This one starts out with a couple in a field getting naked in 30 seconds while a 70s style funk bass plays, so you think this is going to be one of those movies that is just a bunch of softcore sex scenes strung together with only the thinnest excuse of a plot to connect them.  But as soon as the chick gets her top off and we get a good look at what her sweater was hiding she lets out a scream, and we discover the couple was about to do the horizontal mambo on top of a dead hobo. 

Turns out the hobo was the uncle of a couple of blonde sisters named Heather and Tiffany and he left them his bar in his will.  We know this because his lawyer calls up one of the sisters while she's taking a shower to tell her the news.     

So the blonde sisters rush from L.A. to this resort "paradise" on the California coast to pick up their uncles ashes and some backstory from the local yokel sherriff.  Then a blonde guy takes them out in a boat so they can dump their uncles ashes in the lake, in a scene that represents the director's need to stretch the film's running time to at least 80 minutes so he can sell it to Cinemax "After Hours." 

Then someone calls another blonde guy while he's having sex with a brunette to tell him the two blonde girls inherited the bar.  Then another brunette visits him and tells him he's never had to work for anything in his life, and strips and has sex with him, but she keeps her panties on. 

Then the second blonde guy approaches the two blonde sisters about buying the bar.  Heather and Tiffany are hard to tell apart, because blonde hair is pretty much their only character trait, but one wants to sell and the other doesn't.  Then another cute blonde named Becky comes and says she used to be the bartender and she thinks the bar could be a real success.  This is the film's first major plot point, because, unlike everyone else in the movie, Becky can act, so we immediately wonder whether she will get naked or whether the producer splurged on a professional actress to do a little plot.

Then the second blonde guy, who it turns out is a real estate developer, comes up to the blonde girl who wants to sell the place while she's watching from the beach.  After talking to him for 5 minutes she says "I've never met anyone like you before" and drops her top, because she's never encountered a smooth talking narcissistic male with dyed blonde hair in L.A.  But  she learns that he's actually a jerk when she walks on him having sex with a third brunette.         

Meanwhile the other blonde sister has been having sex with the other blonde guy, the one with the boat.  So all the blonde girls and the blonde guy get together and wonder how they can make the bar turn a profit.  One of the girls notices that "this place is swarming with men" so if they can "come up with something to get their attention" they can make lots of money, and also get all of their stripper girlfriends who weren't talented enough to get a speaking line a chance to get into the credits.  So they put on a lingerie show and a bikini show, but the dancers can't seem to keep their tops from falling off when men wave dollar bills at them.   The yokel deputy who wants to sabotage the bar for the blonde real estate developer can't arrest them because "they aren't breaking any laws," nude entertainment being unregulated in this particular California county.

Then the brunette who had sex with the blonde guy before and also wants him to buy the bar for her has sex with the blonde guy again, only this time she takes off her panties because they're in the hot tub.  Then the camera catches a shot of the blonde guy's weiner so the ladies won't feel they're being left out with all the breast shots.

Then the deputy who's always had the hots for Becky tries to seduce her by making vague threats.  Then he tries to burn down the bar while one of the blonde sister and a blonde guy are busy making out in the front yard.  They stop making out and put out the fire, but the deputy refuses to investigate so they're stuck.   

So then the blonde guy with the real estate license talks to the blonde guy with the and convinces him to burn down the bar WHILE THE TWO BLONDE SISTERS ARE IN IT.  Apparently he has found a quirk in the local probate law that says that if you kill people who inherit property, the property is automatically deeded to the murderer.  Meanwhile Becky goes to the deputy's house and "distracts" him so he won't go investigate the arson/murder.  Up to this point, the greatest tension in the movie has been whether Becky will take her top off, so don't read the next paragraph if you don't want the secret spoiled:

She takes her shirt off and she has a black see-through negligee on underneath, and I think you can sort of make out her nipples if you stare hard.  I don't know if this counts as a topless scene or not.  It is exactly this kind of ambiguous resolution that makes PLEASURE IN PARADISE such a suspenseful entry in the softcore porn genre. 

Then the girls go to the bar so the bad guy can barbecue them, but before he does he confesses to killing the uncle and the sherriff everyone had forgotten about pops out of the closet and arrests him.  Turns out the good blonde guy wasn't actually double crossing the blonde girls but actually double crossing the bad blonde guy.  Then, in a shocking twist ending, the cast does not get naked and have an orgy to celebrate.

If you put a gun to my head and made me guess why this movie was made, I would say that a strip club owner with a stripper girlfriend who was always nagging him to get her an acting gig needed to launder some cocaine smuggling money, and decided to kill two birds with one stone.

1 & 1/2 slimes.   
       

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