Blue Summer (1973)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

From my favorite movies..

Absolutely Fantastic

The flower began to mature in the fifties, rot away in the sixties, and became vile in the seventies. By the eighties, it was all dead. Lick on a nipple, suck on a pipe, and eat some pie babe, rebellion running away from mother puritan and all that was once innocent, sweet, and pure before it got dirty doing it like wild animals in the jungle over and over again pointlessly. Nothing ever changes. Nothing is ever new. More beer. More wine. The smell of death begins to linger defying defecation, she cries out once again "Oh!" and "Ah!" Then after she becomes another she among other shes all with the same anatomy just different hair color, size and shape of breasts, but these will always be those distinctive seventies breasts with silver dollar sized nipples stuck onto the ends of oblonged bazookas. She will then cry out again "Oh!" and then "Ah!" with the same ole' licking on a nipple, sucking on a pipe, and eating pie. There is one interesting scene involving the nibbling on a toe of a soft white leg. Towards the middle, the young men in this movie come to realize they have become the joke of Hollywood. Indeed, never again would another movie of consequence involve them beyond porn. Horror creeps along following after the young women in this movie for, as they are now old women, they must feel quite ashamed of what they had once had to do to make a cheap buck.

Teenagers pack a van full of beer and go on the road in search of sexual adventures.There is no way to say anything of substance about this film because it was a film completely lacking in substance. Two young men go around and try to have sex with a variety of women, and they often succeed. There was no real plot, no real characters... just an excuse to film women naked.No one of any consequence seems to have been involved with this project -- no actor, no director, no producer... I am not surprised in the least that it ended up being distributed by Something Weird Video, as this is more or less their cup of tea (though not really as "weird" as many of their titles).

Teenage pals Tracy (likable Davey Jones) and Gene (the equally engaging Bo White) have graduated from high school and are about to go to college in another week. The duo pack up a van called the Meat Wagon full of beer and other supplies and hit the road in search of sex and thrills prior to facing the heavy responsibilities of encroaching adulthood. Naturally, our affably laid-back and immature pair encounter a colorful array of quirky characters: Joann Sterling as sexy hitchhiker Sparky and Lilly Bi Beep as her fetching buddy Bee, Jeff Allen as a menacing beefy biker, Larry Lima as flaky new age hippie guru Roger, Shana McGran and Any Mathieu as Roger's lusty'n'luscious flower child followers Liza and Deborah, Eric Edwards as hunky stud Fred, Melissa Evers as brash, boozy floozy Regina, and the ever-adorable Chris Jordan as spunky kook Miss No Name. Writer/director Chuck Vincent's simple, yet engrossing and eventful narrative uses the then trendy cross country road movie premise to craft a flavorsome evocation of the carefree early 70's that moves along at a constant brisk pace, buzzes with a winningly breezy'n'easy vibe, and delivers a few sizzling soft-core sexual interludes. Better still, Vincent earns extra praise for offering a few unexpectedly poignant moments amid all the amusingly silly antics: Tracy makes love to unhappy and neglected middle-aged housewife Margaret (an excellent performance by Jacqueline Carol) only to have her express regret for cheating on her husband (plus her son also shows up and further puts a damper on things) and the film concludes on a surprisingly melancholy note as the happy-go-lucky fun comes to its inevitable conclusion. Richard Billay's funky syncopated score and the infectiously bouncy soundtrack of upbeat songs by Sleepy Hollow both hit the right-on groovy spot. Stephen Colwell's plain, but sunny cinematography likewise does the trick. Jones and White display a loose and amiable chemistry in the lead roles. A cool little romp.

This is a rather schizoid movie as is evidenced by its two alternate titles "Blue Summer" on one hand, or "Love Truck", on the other. At times this seems like a typically stupid and painfully unfunny early 70's softcore sex romp with a lot of idiotic and unrealistic situations and some pretty unappealing actresses. The movie follows a pretty typical formula--two guys who have just graduated high school go off on a road trip in a customized van looking some female action, and fall into all kinds of increasingly absurd, but not particularly funny situations--and, of course, they have a lot of sex on the way.There are places, however, where this movie really transcends its formulaic softcore origins. Reality intrudes in a couple places like the one another reviewer mentioned where a sexual tryst one protagonist is having with an older woman is interrupted by her son who's about the same age he is (and it's treated rather realistically and a little sadly, not in the comical way of something like "American Pie"). My favorite scene though, and really the one that makes the whole movie at all worthwhile, comes in the first half hour: the pair pick up a couple of female hitchhikers (the ONLY attractive women in this movie) and they having a long and surprisingly beautifully filmed double sex scene at a campsite while groovy early 70's music plays on the soundtrack. As unrealistic as the rest of the movie may be, this one scene really captures what it was like (or, at least, what I imagine it was like--this was ten or fifteen years before my time) to be alive and young in the early 70's. This scene alone might be worth seeing the rest of the movie.