BARBARELLA

Barbarella is a 1968 film starring Jane Fonda in the title role of space vixen Barbarella and directed by Roger Vadim who was Fonda's husband at the time. This movie was like watching porn when I first watched it as a kid with the by-now-infamous opening sequence of Jane Fonda stripping off her spacesuit while floating around in her spaceship and you get to see glimpses of her perky little ta-tas and Jane walking around in various skintight skimpy outfits throughout the film (and keep in mind that THIS was a PG-rated flick!). But, as sexy as Jane was in this movie, my favorite character would have to be the Great Tyrant played by the ultra hot Anita Pallenberg (whose voice was dubbed by Joan Greenwood) who wore a sexy eyepatch and kept calling Barbarella, "Pretty! Pretty!" The plot itself, as if THAT really matters, is about Barbarella who is sent by the future U.S. government to search for a missing scientist named Durand Durand who went missing in space some years before. Barbarella's search takes her to the far reaches of the galaxy where she encounters a whole slew of interesting and sometimes dangerous people and creatures, including a blind "angel" named Pygar who's lost the will to fly until Barbarella boffs his brains out (of course!) after he rescues her from some robots or whatever. Of course, she eventually finds Durand Durand who turns out to be a crazed maniac who straps Barbarella to this weird-ass sex machine that's supposed to kill people by stimulating them to have excessive orgasms. However, not only is Barbarella NOT killed by this machine but she has SO many orgasms that she actually breaks the machine! But by far the creepiest scene that stayed with me for a while after I first watched it as a kid would have to be when Barbarella crash-lands on this planet where she's abducted by these two creepy little girls who hog-tie her and sick these equally-creepy dolls with razor-sharp teeth on her to chew her up until she is rescued by this rather big dude dressed in a Chewbacca-esque outfit whom Barbarella, uh-hum, repays by boffing his brains out (again, of course!)! While Barbarella might be tame by today's standards (to say the least!), it's still hot enough to be of, uh-hum, interest to people with more, shall we say, prurient interests. (And, if you don't know what "prurient" means, you'll just have to look it up for your own damn self, all right?) A sidenote: The eighties pop group Duran Duran actually got its name from the character Durand Durand from this movie. Just thought you'd like to know!