lastliberal
The film starts off like an Italian Porky's: three boys checking out the girls bathroom where two well endowed girls are comparing breasts. It is one of the Italian sex comedies popular in the seventies.Franco (Alfredo Pea), the boy who got the best of his buddies is in danger of failing, and gets a private tutor (Edwige Fenech). Now, as a typical teen, he is delighted when he meets her.Giovanna (Fenech) doesn't arrive until late in the film, but she is the reason we are here. You cannot look at her long legs without excitement building up.Franco is desperate. He even pretends he is gay to get her to sleep with him. I'm not sure how that is supposed to work.He does manage to get a good look at her in the bathroom and cops a feel while she is sleeping, but, it isn't until he fakes a suicide that he finally achieves success.Great comedy and a welcome view of Fenech.
christopher-underwood
To be honest, this barely holds together, but it does have Edwige Fenech and the tragedy is that not only is she obviously a massive visual attraction but she acts everyone else off the stage. Her subtle comic style and graceful movements are stand-out in an otherwise crudity. Vaguely related to our 'Confessions' films, Edwige made this after her glorious giallo and a couple of 'Canterbury Tale' spin-offs for husband, Sergio Martino. Ignoring the appalling over acting of most of the 'too old' school kids etc, there are interesting elements. Even in this silly little story, we know that the school finances are fiddled, that state housing is available on a 'what will you do for me' basis and gays are good for a laugh. Further, the mafia is more than hinted at and the male lead is encouraged to play gay 'women love the sensitive bit', in order to get near enough to grab, drug and almost rape. And all so that the man may turn out to be 'normal'. sounds like any other Italian movie when I think of it!
lazarillo
This was the first of several "Sexy Schoolteacher" movies Edwige Fenech appeared in, and also the first of a whole slew of "teenage" sex comedies featuring annoying Italian buffoon Alvaro Vitali as the world's oldest looking but, at the same time, most immature high school student.The movie starts out with material not quite advanced enough to be sophomoric. Three "teenagers" (the main protagonist looks to be about twenty and his friends, Vitali and another guy, easily look thirty) are doing what male teenagers always do in these kind of movies--trying to get laid. They get nowhere with the girls their own age (other than spying on them in the locker room as they rub lotion on each other's boobs). They then decide to go after "older" women, which leads to a lame running gag where they spot a particularly attractive female body part only to find out it's attached to a grotesque woman or cross-dresser.Not a moment to soon "sexy schoolteacher" Edwige Fenech shows up (although she is not really a schoolteacher but more of a tutor the protagonist's parents hire for their easily distracted son). These movies were really a step down for Fenech from the gialli she was making with her paramour/producer Luciano Martino and his director brother Sergio in the early '70's, but her presence in these kind of movies was a real step up for the movies themselves. Fenech was as beautiful and frequently naked as Gloria Guida, the other regular female star of these kind of films, but she was also a genuinely talented comic actress. It is very hard to believe a woman that looks like her would be so unsophisticated and respond in any way to the clumsy advances of the homely and idiotic male protagonist of this movie, but I guess that's half the appeal of these kinds of flicks, isn't it? This is a terminally stupid movie, but it is redeemed somewhat by the presence of Fenech.
pumaye
With this movie the gorgeous brunette Edwige Fenech - here at thetop of her physical charme - passes from the Giallo movies thatstarted her career between the late Sixties and early Seventies -several of whom are indeed very good and worth seeing - to thecheap erotic pharce that delineate the better part of her careerbefore her retiring from the scenes and the start of a very fortunateproducing career - she has always been a bright and corageouswoman in her choices. This movie starts a franchise, made of a few movies with thesame title character, but not necessarily real follows up to theones before. Edwige is the wife of a gymnastic professor(D'Angelo) that becomes involved in a torrid love passion with ayoung student. Better forgive her for such performances: she has been better