French Aphrodite gives heat This is the case when an old film gets crushing criticism despite being old. The parody of the franchise about the sexiest French woman received a horribly low rating on IMDB and on our Kinopoisk, however, at the time of writing this review, the rating is hidden, as a result of a two-fold recalculation of the rating of all films on the main Russian website dedicated to cinema. Before that, the rating of this harmless comedy was 3 out of 10. Why should I ask you? At the same time, such parody crafts as "Silence of ham" are in our honor, although there is nothing to read them for when there is no normal humor or pictures. Even such epic garbage as "Superfurious", and that rating is higher, thanks to high ratings from the haters of the original. The parody of "Emmanuel" not only disliked the majority - it completely remained in the shadows, very few people know about it. I found out about it... I won’t say anything about it, this kind of information will force the moderators to put a red light on my review, or simply remove this sentence from the review. Let's just say I found out by accident. And I didn’t even expect that the film will not be at all as bad as the ratings say.
The first part of "Emmanueli" with "Sylvia Cristel", published in "b>1974, caused a furor around the world, was banned in the USSR. Later, four sequels were shot, but the first part remained one such - the only and unique. The franchise has several imitators, was removed alternative franchise "Black Emmanuel" with black beauty Laura Gemser in the title role, some parts of which were a good imitation of the original, others - talentless crafts. In addition, there were many films, the main characters of which were called by the same name to earn on the female name, which became the standard of eroticism. Not all of these pictures were worth seeing. Among all the hype in the world of adult cinema, the main hit of which was “Emmanuel”, 4 years after the release of its first part, a curious parody comedy arrived. This is what I'm talking about.
Of course, here is not as intellectual and at the same time entertaining parody as Robin Hood. Men in tights", and not as uncouth youth parody as "A very scary movie", and witty vulgarity is not so much as in recent " Like cool Spartans" (another unjustly offended parody). Here a strong middle peasant is kind, funny, sometimes gorgeous, sometimes funny, sometimes just a frank parody, rather not on the original film, but on its main characters - the main character and her husband. There is not a single sadistic prank, unlike the parodies of two world-class mediocres Jason Friedberg and Aaron Zellzer; frank jokes cause either a smile or laughter, but not disgust, unlike "Vampiraneous". Craig Moss. And all this is because the goal was not to mock the original, not to douse it with dirt, but to kindly ridicule the image that men around the world crave. And ridiculed him, as it should be in normal parodies, not forcing the viewer to spit with abomination, but offering to enjoy the beauty of the human body ... and laugh at how this beauty is served here. Emmanuel, in a parody, goes into all serious, right and left, violating the seventh commandment - in the original it was taught by depraved friends, here she herself knows a lot about sex, and uses the fact that her husband is allegedly impotent. And the most interesting thing is that he considers himself an incompetent man! But neither he nor she knows the simple secret. As you can see, the plot of the parody has nothing to do with the plot of the original 1974, but there is a justification for this, in contrast to the nonsense issued in "Superforce", which has nothing to do with the original - here we see colorful heroes, hear witty dialogue, and in the end we are completely touched by the denouement. There is no dirt, no stupidity and no abomination. Only beauty, positivity and humor. Not at the highest level, but worthy.
7 out of 10