Posted: Sun., Dec. 31, 1978, 11:00pm PT

Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens

By Variety Staff

RM International. Director Russ Meyer; Producer Russ Meyer; Screenplay R. Hyde [= Roger Ebert], B. Callum [= Russ Meyer]; Camera Russ Meyer; Editor Russ Meyer; Music William Tasker; Art Director Michele Levesque

Francesca 'Kitten' Natividad Anne Marie Ken Kerr June Mack Lola Langusta

For the fanciers of pneumatic pulchritude, Russ Meyer is back with Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens which as the onscreen narrator says 'is a very simple story', presumably for very simple people.

Briefly, the strand of plot concerns Lavonia (Francesca 'Kitten' Natividad), whose only fault is 'enthusiasm' and her unsatisfactory sex relationship with her man Lamar (Ken Kerr). In the course of curing Lamar so that he will straighten up and satisfy, Lavonia has a hot time with everybody in town.

This is the umpteenth in Meyer's vixen series. But are they satire, as Meyer would have one believe, or fantasy, or both? If anything, they are funny and though a bit too long, Meyer, who does everything (directs, edits, photographs and produces), keeps the action fast and furious.

(Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1979. Running time: 93 MIN.