Welcome reader to my last 2010 movie review and how proper was for me to watch this drive-in flick since it's a movie about having fun and not doing much thinking, something a responsible teacher such as yours truly thanks with both arms wide opened.
Van nuys Boulevard, a 1979 movie produced by Crown International Pictures takes us back to those youth years where everybody wants to have fun, get laid and experience borderline adventures.
It is said that today's Van Nuys has changed radically, Ghettos, gangs and porn movie studios plus LAPD are held responsible for this, but if someone wouldn't explain me about how real was this movie I simply wouldn't have believed it, I mean girls willing to get laid by everyone, anywhere and all the time? that's as Sci-Fi as a Star Trek movie could be!!!!
The movie plot is really easy to follow since it tells us some country boy named Bobby gets sick of his life and decides to move to L.A. to find out what all the Van Nuys fuzz is all about. After that, the fun begins: truck races, nice MOPARs everywhere, chicks willing to show her boobs on every scene, getting laid all the time, and well, some of romance to perhaps, avoid being considered an exploitation movie, which by all means defines quite well what this movie is all about.
This movie probably is the American Graffiti exploitation version, why? well little plot, lots of nude girls and sex scenes that had almost nothing to support on the plot line, the first scene where Bobby is on his trailer has his girlfriend completely nude all the time for no reason and, she never shows up during the rest of the movie, so for me, that's exploitation and don't get me wrong, cause I'm not against it, in fact I totally dig these kind of movies.
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| This blonde has no clothes on the first scenes and that's it for her. |
The amount of pop culture references on the movie is huge and the "Youth way" is very much built around those years standards: Trucks, muscle cars, beer, parties, the early golden age of arcade games and the timeless idea of being young, free and capable of going everywhere and doing everything we dream of with no worries at all.
So, the story is country boy Bobby (Bill Adler) driving his van to Los Angeles in search of kicks and competition. Bobby falls in love with a lady driver Moon (Cynthia Wood) and befriends hip, brawny, Chooch (David Hayward), Chooch's nympho Wanda (Tara Strohmeier), Greg (Dennis Bowen), and Greg's foxy gal pal Camille (Melissa Prophet).
William Sachs' airy, aimless, virtually plot-less episodic script follows the sextet's silly misadventures as they ride roller coasters at the amusement park, cruise the strip, disco dance to flickering strobe lights at the local clubs, play pinball at the arcade, race their mean machines, and fall in love under the twinkling California stars. Sach's throwaway direction lets the rickety narrative ramble in enjoyably ramshackle fashion, neatly capturing a righteously funky lowdown cool tone, offering up a highly satisfying plenitude of bare female flesh and simulated soft-core sex, and punctuating the sub-"American Graffiti" antics with frequent dashes of sophomoric humor.
The DVD transfer is quite good, at first I was surprised cause it started with this Popeye cartoon, which made my wife think like "What the hell is that? is this the right DVD?" after the cartoon some trailers from other releases from the era and finally the Crown logo announcing the begining of a very entertaining movie, easy to follow, even easier to understand and most of the photography of the movie is very well done, plus the acting which make you believe what you're seeing could be real (except for the extremely easy access to sex)
Here's the movie trailer and happy new year everyone, See you on some more drive-in reviews:
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