This adult classic holds up well after close to three decades, largely thanks to Kay Parker's star-making turn as Barbara Scott, thirty something mom to strapping young Paul (Mike Ranger, never noted as much of an actor but a hot hunk anyway, here thankfully sans trademark handlebar mustache). She looks stunning in all her budding middle-aged glory and if it's true that everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, hey, look no further ! It's her believable acting that carries the movie though, not always an easy task considering some of the rough moments in the script (which require her to keep a straight face when all around her play for laughs) and dated attitudes (keep an eye out for that orgy scene). The Parker/Ranger footage is truly excellent, some of the most highly charged sex ever seen on the blue screen, helped no end by credible age difference between the two. On the sidelines, Juliet Anderson's truly hilarious (despite being saddled with the most unflattering hairstyle over her entire career) as Kay's perpetually horny best friend Gina who can't help being turned on upon hearing of her friend's incestuous indiscretion. Cult fan favorite Dorothy Lemay won hearts and hard-ons as Ranger's anything goes girlfriend, due in considerable part to her scalding threesome with him and the no less delectable Tawny Pearl from Carlos Tobalina's delightful SEXUAL HEIGHTS. Still a mostly wonderful porn flick, historically important (for tremendous and lasting success on video and now DVD as well as for the rash of imitators it spawned), but not quite the best of the series. That distinction goes to the fourth installment with Jamie Gillis and Ginger Lynn. A monumentally close second however.
Review of Taboo
