And you thought EastEnders was grim! I pity the poor punter who braved a cold winter's evening to see this at the cinema (if it was ever shown there). For in this unfunny sex "comedy" we have possibly the sleaziest and least subtle film I've seen.
The plot actually appears to be an ageing man's wish-fulfilment fantasy about a ménage-a-trois with two willing under-age schoolgirls. The film starts with one of the most joyless scenes in cinema: Bob, a man in his thirties, deflowering two 15 year olds in his car. Although this soon becomes common knowledge, no one even questions him over this, not even when later one of the girls, Rita, moves in with him. She is still at school at the time, but neither her parents (who never appear) nor anyone else objects to this, except her friend, (Bob's other lover Sue) and purely on the grounds on jealousy.
Bob's wife, whose low sex-drive provides a slim pretext for this exploitation of the under-aged and vulnerable, gets wind of this and leaves him, thus leaving the door open for more philandering. Strangely she never reports him to the police. If Bob were around today, he would probably appear on crime watch for internet grooming.
Sue starts going out with an Asian boy, whose performance is the high point of this film. Although he initially announces his intentions by stating "I'd like to take her to bed" when standing next to her (yes the film really is this subtle) there seems to be some genuine tenderness between them till he, inexplicably and out of character, turns into a woman beater. This happens when Sue is given a lift home by Bob from the hospital where Rita has just miscarried. This miscarriage is played for laughs, although, like everything else in this film, it falls flat. That the loss of a baby does not trouble the flow should not surprise us. Not one character is shown any compassion in this cynical film.
But joy! Sue and Rita get back together again and move in with Bob. So in the end, Bob is free from his wife, has a big house and two sex obsessed schoolgirls in his bed.
Who says being a selfish sex predator doesn't pay?
This is a dreary sex farce rewritten for the sensibilities of Channel 4 Guardian Readers, a sort of No Sex Please We're British meets The Jeremy Kyle Show. The long tradition of middle-class pseuds sneering down at the antics of the underclass has more recently found itself a home on channel 4 once more in the appropriately named Shameless.
The film ends with a shot of Bob's arse-crack suspended in air as he is about to pounce on the two girls in his bed. That somehow sums up this sleazy unpleasant piece of trash.
The plot actually appears to be an ageing man's wish-fulfilment fantasy about a ménage-a-trois with two willing under-age schoolgirls. The film starts with one of the most joyless scenes in cinema: Bob, a man in his thirties, deflowering two 15 year olds in his car. Although this soon becomes common knowledge, no one even questions him over this, not even when later one of the girls, Rita, moves in with him. She is still at school at the time, but neither her parents (who never appear) nor anyone else objects to this, except her friend, (Bob's other lover Sue) and purely on the grounds on jealousy.
Bob's wife, whose low sex-drive provides a slim pretext for this exploitation of the under-aged and vulnerable, gets wind of this and leaves him, thus leaving the door open for more philandering. Strangely she never reports him to the police. If Bob were around today, he would probably appear on crime watch for internet grooming.
Sue starts going out with an Asian boy, whose performance is the high point of this film. Although he initially announces his intentions by stating "I'd like to take her to bed" when standing next to her (yes the film really is this subtle) there seems to be some genuine tenderness between them till he, inexplicably and out of character, turns into a woman beater. This happens when Sue is given a lift home by Bob from the hospital where Rita has just miscarried. This miscarriage is played for laughs, although, like everything else in this film, it falls flat. That the loss of a baby does not trouble the flow should not surprise us. Not one character is shown any compassion in this cynical film.
But joy! Sue and Rita get back together again and move in with Bob. So in the end, Bob is free from his wife, has a big house and two sex obsessed schoolgirls in his bed.
Who says being a selfish sex predator doesn't pay?
This is a dreary sex farce rewritten for the sensibilities of Channel 4 Guardian Readers, a sort of No Sex Please We're British meets The Jeremy Kyle Show. The long tradition of middle-class pseuds sneering down at the antics of the underclass has more recently found itself a home on channel 4 once more in the appropriately named Shameless.
The film ends with a shot of Bob's arse-crack suspended in air as he is about to pounce on the two girls in his bed. That somehow sums up this sleazy unpleasant piece of trash.