H.O.T.S. (1979)

Sex comedy about a rivalry between two sororities with some nice T&A but not very funny. Just an excuse for chestacular young women (including a few former Playboy Playmates) to run around, sometimes naked but mostly in tight T-shirts with no bra on. If you're a fan of watching braless babes bouncing all over the place, this is the movie for you. Strip football game is the climax of the film, in more ways than one. Danny Bonaduce is also in this, acting like a ginger Scott Baio who thinks he's hot stuff. Lots of cruddy songs, as well. Worth seeing for the boobs and for being a time capsule of the late '70s/early '80s. Beyond that it isn't a good movie and whatever cheesy appeal it has wears off fairly quickly.

This is one of my personal favorites that Netflix has to offer for stream. The opening scene is full of great full frontal nudity and keeps up the pace the whole movie! This movie was made before Hollywood went silicone so all the women are all natural beauties. I truly can't believe this movie wasn't bigger when it came out. It delivers on many levels. The acting isn't great but the humor is there and very politically incorrect. Add Danny Bonnaduce as character and you have a hit movie! The plot is goonie and I don't really remember anything specifically about it except all the great nudity. Pop some pop corn and grab a beer because this great flick is available to watch right now on Netflix and scores a perfect 10 out of 10 on the T&A scale.

First of all, why am I giving this movie a ten? It reminds me of a totally different era. It is weirdly innocent. There is no nastiness in this movie. Even the bad guys in this movie aren't really that bad.Second, this movie is a time capsule to a more innocent time. Imagine releasing this movie today? It couldn't happen. There just weren't many places to see beautiful naked women on the silver screen, unless you wanted to go to a seedy part of town and visit an adult movie theater. The T&A genre just doesn't exist anymore. In 1979 there was a pent-up demand for this kind of entertainment. Now you can see more T&A on the internet before breakfast than was filmed in this movie. Imagine pitching this script today. "We'll film a zany movie with a bunch of beautiful half-naked women. Teenage boys will come see it for the girls, and we'll put in a few jokes so girls might want to go too." A producer would say "Why would I make a movie with a lot of scenes with naked women? Where is the demand for this product?" The question make no sense today and illustrates how much things have changed since 1979.Third, this movie, for all the naked girls it, HOTS has a lot of feminist undertones. The women in this movie are strong, and fight to get what they want. The men who try to exploit them are the ones who get embarrassed. Fourth the women in this movie look "natural." The female stars don't have that nasty silicone look that you see post - 1980. The girls that are "gifted" with ample pulchritude in this movie look real. The stars are not ridiculously hot, i.e. like Angelina Jolie. You could visualize these girls on your college campus in 1979 (if your campus is USC or UCLA I guess, not the engineering school I went to, but I digress)One of the complaints I have about Hollywood today is that actresses just don't look like normal people anymore. I'm sure this is a function of the internet weeding out everyone but the super-gorgeous. The girls in HOTS look like they are attainable, which adds to the innocent charm of the movie.Finally, the football game at the end of the movie! As a teenager I said to myself, "If I'm reincarnated I want to be the cameraman who filmed the huddles in the HOTS movie!" What incredible creativity! I smile every time I think of that scene :)Summing Up : A mindless romp to a more innocent time.If you watch it with teenagers today be prepared to explain how and why this genre existed. Today's kid will wonder why this movie was made.

I saw this picture when it was released 30 years ago, mainly because of the topless football game. I enjoyed it back then, but seeing it again on Netflix TV after three decades was a disappointment. Not that the movie doesn't have its positives: (1) high-quality cinematography, lighting, editing, and photography; (2) beautiful, often topless, babes; and (3) a couple of recognizable (real) actors from the past (Dick Bakalyan and Louis Guss as the gangsters).That being said, the flick went overboard trying to be "zany," cramming into practically every scene some sort of tired, infantile gag that draws winces instead of chuckles. Further, beneath the ostensible light, good-natured goings-on, with everybody supposedly having such a great time acting crazy or simply being weird, runs a subliminal hostility and meanness that progressively depresses the viewer. Ha, ha. Isn't the fat girl funny, especially when she outweighs her nerdy boyfriend by 200 pounds? What a riot! Ha, ha. The opera singer bellows off-key and then falls into the pool! How original! Whoever thought of that? Brilliant stroke of comedy! As bright and cheerful as H.O.T.S. makes itself out to be, it's actually kind of repulsive.As one reviewer noted years ago, H.O.T.S. is one of those movies better watched with the sound off. The outstanding beauty of (my personal choices, in order) Kimberly Cameron, K.C. Winkler, Sandy Johnson, and Lisa London shouldn't be marred by idiotic dialogue.Five stars: ten for the feminine beauty and the vintage actors, zero for everything else.