Film Reviews: Babes in the Woods (1962) - By Duane L. Martin Posted on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 @ 22:53:07 Mountain Daylight Time by Duane
Three nekkid chicks in 1962 at a woodland retreat run by an old, prudish widow with her dead husband watching all the goings ons from heaven and narrating each scene. That's basically what this film is about. There were a lot of tittie flicks made back in the 60's that had little purpose to them other than to show girls with their tits out. But how does this flick match up to the rest? What makes it different?
Well, the narration from the dead husband is rather cute and entertaining. Honestly, it was the most entertaining thing about the film. Well, that and the fact that his expressions in the photo his widow kept on the counter kept changing according to his feelings about whatever he was talking about at the time. Then there was the prudish widow who, once overcome by the infectious nature of the nekiddity and doofishness of the girls, eventually came around and showed them a really good time. No not that kind of a good time. I mean she showed them around and they all had fun. There was also a scene early on with a lecherous old gas station attendant with a peephole bathroom where he watched one of the girls take a bubble bath. Considering the shack where she did it was little more than an outhouse, the bathroom on the inside where she washed the mud off of herself after having fallen in a mud puddle was nothing short of amazing since the inside of the place was actually a full bathroom with a bathtub, sink, etc....
Then there's the girls themselves. Through the greatest of coincidences, I think they were all dropped on their heads multiple times as children because they only have about one brain cell that they share around between the three of them. All they really do is get naked, get into situations where they can get naked again and then get naked to celebrate their own nakedness. They're all doofy, but one in particular is especially doofy. Hell, she couldn't even figure out how to move her thumb to hitch a ride. On the plus side, they did all have nice tits.
Where this film fails is that so many of the scenes, especially the naked ones are just incredibly tedious. After a few minutes of watching one or more of the girls fondling or caressing themselves or dancing around like a monkey at a picnic, you're like, "Ok, seen it. Let's move on already!"
Another failure in my book is that these girls are running around nekkid, showing tits and ass everywhere, but never the bush. They always managed to hide it away in clever ways so you couldn't really see it. WHY??? They were showing everything else. I mean really, what's the big deal? Still, props to them for being so creative in the the ways they hid it.
All in all, it's ok if you like these kinds of titty flicks, and actually becomes passable because of the fun narrations. The narrations and being able to rip on how brainless the girls were are really what saved this movie for me. You will however want to have a fast forward button handy, because many of the scenes are just interminably long. Especially the scene where they went on an airplane tour of the mountains. That was nothing but aerial scenery shots with some narration and some dialogue with the wife, who was piloting the plane by the way. I was sitting there watching that and thinking, "Is this all? Just flying around? No tits?". Yep, that's all that whole section was. Again, have your fast forward button handy.
So can I recommend it? Sure why not. If you like these kind of flicks, this one is actually pretty fun overall. Slow, but fun. The girls are generally attractive, have nice bodies, and are pleasant to watch as long as you can avoid wondering what they look like today and thinking about the fact that they're all grandmas now.
The DVD has been released by Independent International Films http://www.independentinternational.com and is currently available from Amazon and other outlets.
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