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Pandora Peaks
  

Pandora Peaks

Starring: Candy Samples, Stephanie Schick Director: Russ Meyer
1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Considering Russ Meyer's personal wealth and a resum that boasts the highest quality exploitation films of any career, the man certainly has nothing to prove, and Russ Meyer's Pandora Peaks has all the qualities of a vanity project. The film is essentially incoherent and takes frequent detours to some of the director's non-sexual interests, delivering fewer physical thrills than his groundbreaking early work. Still, it's clear that Meyer has the old touch as he creates a colorful travelogue through his retirement years, enjoying chesty women, peaceful living in the Palm Desert, and trout fishing. Peaks regales viewers with such personal observations as "I love my warm, plump breasts" and "I like it soft, I like it hard!" while stripping out of a variety of fetishistic outfits (cowgirl, harem girl, leather). Not much is learned about Peaks except that she loves the attention, so it's good when Meyer suddenly and eccentrically shifts to footage of Tundi, a German uberfrau who cavorts in a tub and declares affection for her own large chest. Bouncing between the two lascivious vixens, Meyer occasionally pops up, fishing in exotic locations with old Army buddies and throwing out bits of World War II history. It's all interspersed with typical Meyer visual gags: gaping desert caves, phallic skyscrapers, twin mountains, and suggestive oil pump rigs. The entire exercise proves that the director hasn't lost his adolescent obsessions, which will be welcome news to those who thrill to classic opuses like Supervixens and Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill! Ultimately, Russ Meyer's Pandora Peaks is nothing more than a clever picture postcard from a long-silent artist that adds little to his canon but will nonetheless be pleasing to his admirers. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide


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Adult cinema director Russ Meyer returns to the screen for his first time in 20 years with this documentary about big-breasted (Triple H cup) strip dancer Pandora Peaks. Meyer combines biographical info on the chesty exhibitionist with plenty of Peaks' sexy routines, as well as snippets of his own cinematic history. Reminiscent of the director's earlier Mondo Topless, the film is a collision of rapidly moving montage sequences that supply acres of skin along with Meyer's own lecherous sense of humor. The pneumatic Peaks is shown dancing in dusty desert locales, drinking at a German Oktoberfest, and enjoying a stimulating workout on her Trimax machine. Meyer is also a frequent face, trout fishing with a variety of Army buddies and mugging impishly at his over-endowed subject. The film includes appearances from busty starlets such as Tundi, Leosha, and Candy Samples and brings back Anthony James Ryan to briefly reprise his role from Eve and the Handyman. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing "Russ Meyer's Autobiographic" Film, Feb 27 2004
By Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews
After so many years of silence, the king of sexploitation Russ Meyer came back with "Pandra Peaks." Ostensibly this film is about Russ's autobiography with Pandra Peek (and other ladies') comments on themselves, narrated by himself, Pandra Peeks, and three other ladies, but what they talk is little related to the life of this iconic director, who started his career as a WW II cameraman, or anything about the females here.

Remember, here Russ Meyer is NOT making a porno film as we know these days, and he didn't in the past. The film itself is about 72 minutes, in which you see the bits of naked women dancing, posing, or talking silly things -- like, "Big breasts never hurt anyone" -- and these brief shots come and go in a speed of the lightening. (Russ Meyer loves fact-cutting, and dislikes long, continuous shots). So, what you see in "Pandra" is the intercutting between naked ladies with big breasts (Russ's trademark), and the shots of seemingly meaningless cuts of cars, traffic signs, tape recorders (symbolizing that this film is an intereview?) or Russ himself holding a camera.

It is good to see Mr. Meyer looking fine (and Henry Roland too, who appeared in several of his films -- as 'Otto' in the cult film "Beyoud the Valley of Dolls"), but as the film has no story to tell, you soon get bored with watching this one doing the same thing over and over again. Russ Meyer's taut editing is interesting to see (he loves editing, and good at it), but what we see remains the same all through the film -- chicks, chicks, chicks, with silly sound effects -- actually, even 72 minutes was too long for me. (I watched it in Japan, in the officially held Russ Meyer film festival.) Yes, I like his films, but not this one.

There's nothing you would like to see in this film, unless you are a die-hard fans of his films in the 60s and 70s such as great "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" "Beyond the Valley of Dolls" or "Vixen." And even fans would lament over this one.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, Kupo! ^o^, Oct 4 2003
By MoogleUK (Moogles' Den, UK) - See all my reviews
This is a rip off as Pandora Peaks barely features in the footage.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Where is Pandora, May 7 2003
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"Pandora Peaks" is the wrong title for this DVD!
It should be named the "random scrap" or "Russ Meyers show of objects". Pandora is seldom seen but traffic lights, cars, houses, desert... All in all, Pandora is seen a maximum of 5 minutes out of 72 minutes. These 5 minutes are spread over the whole time as small increments between 2 to 15 seconds. Often she is seen only from far away. This DVD is not to recommend.
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