Sexboat (1980) User Reviews (5)

Setting Sail for Ecstasy

[Nodriesrespect · 8/10 · 12 August 2007]

Husband and wife team David I. Frazer and Svetlana built a reputation for fluffy adult comedies with large casts of fresh female faces and just the sliver of a plot to get the abundant action going. The silly yet supremely sexy SEX BOAT remains one of their most accomplished efforts.

Premise has a cruise line run by captain Cody Nicole (billed as "Roxanne Potts" in an early appearance, hence the wooden line readings), catering to female clients only, to get away from the pressures of men for whatever reasons. Hot to trot heiress Sylvia Benedict (credited as "Silvia Moser") is sent along by her prim 'n' proper guardian for flashing her genitals at bewildered chauffeur Turk Lyon, a cute guy next door type (if you happened to live in a really good neighborhood, that is !) who appeared in a lot of the Golden Age porn classics. Fan favorite Loni Sanders' infidelity (somewhat confusingly with then real life husband Mike Ranger) has been found out and is duly punished by irate husband Kevin James by forcing her to watch him fornicate with perky redhead Copper Penny.

Lyon and his best buddy Randy West think they've struck leg-over gold by donning drag and stowing away on the ocean liner, providing convenient cocks for the sex-starved passengers. What follows is plain 'n' simple a series of high voltage erotic encounters with some of the most exciting new starlets at the time, a surefire recipe for pornographic popularity. Longtime fans should experience little trouble identifying the likes of deck hand Kelly Nichols, purser Kandi Barbour or cabin crew Nicole Noir.

Contemporary superstar Hillary Summers (who had headlined in Ron Sullivan's THE BUDDING OF BRIE and Roberta Findlay's JUSTINE : A MATTER OF INNOCENCE) briefly appears during Lyon's initial attempt to ravish co-passengers languishing in their hammocks at night. Curly-haired Rene La Paz turns up in the fantasy-fulfilling five girls on one guy sequence and is probably best remembered for playing the fashion model with Bob Kerman in the opening scene of Gary Graver's massively underrated INDECENT EXPOSURE. The cute busty brunette under the table with Turk is sweet Pamela Jennings who would become a considerably popular mid-'80s starlet (as a bottle blonde, though) in flicks like Marga Aulbach's simultaneously shot HOW DO YOU LIKE IT ? and THOUGHT YOU'D NEVER ASK. Future superstar Little Oral Annie also makes an early appearance in a red pantsuit, ravished by one of the pirates. Come again, you say ?

Okay, so there's a final reel appearance by some comically marauding and indeed raping pirates, but like the latter part of Frazer and Svetlana's original BAD GIRLS the "rape" consists of little more than gentle prodding of all too willing participants. Still, those painfully PC viewers of either gender (hey, I'm making no facile assumptions here) should consider themselves forewarned of its inclusion here. It would however be a sad state of affairs if this would keep them from enjoying some of the most glossily produced (courtesy of DoP Joao Fernandez, by then finally discarding his long-held "Harry Flecks" dirty movie alter ego) and enthusiastically performed porn from days of yore.

We're expecting you

[movieman_kev · 8/10 · 23 November 2006]

When Mark finds out his best friend Sam is getting too friendly with his wife. Sharon. He sends her on an all girl cruise (not before he forces Sharon and Sam to sleep together one more time of course). He think this will teach her a lesson. But unbeknowst to him two male stowaways dressed as women will be on this trip as well. The typical porn shenanigans prevail. While this movie doesn't rival David Frazer's later made classic "Pink Lagoon", it's still a lot of fun and hearkens back to the good ol' days when porn wasn't homogenized to the point of being boringly redundant. One of the best compliments one can give an adult film is that it's able to keep your attention throughout the length of the movie (as opposed to 5 minute 'sessions' so to speak) and this one succeeds in that.

My Grade: B

A lot of salty seamen !

[garywhittaker-27089 · 10/10 · 29 December 2019]

I remember this to be one of or if not the first porno movies I ever saw , in the dawn of the VHS revolution this film was being swapped about my playground amongst the hormone ridden 13 year olds , eventually it landed in my greasy hands and I was "treated" to a hard core porno with comedy elements, think 'Some like it hot' where two guys sneak aboard a woman only ship dressed as women , as you can imagine , there are many sexual escapades , including an impressive one man on 5 women orgy , the film concludes with some pirates raping and pillaging, the raping is far from sinister as the women look like they are raping the pirates ! I have a soft spot (or hard one, depending on your point of view) for this movie. Give it a go

Silver Age Porn

[rmax304823 · 9 September 2003]

The story here is that a lot of women, for one reason or another, sign on to a cruise on a ship manned by women, so to speak. Two of the gals turn out to be guys in disguise. It's a lot dirtier but not as funny as "Some Like It Hot." The entire movie seems to begin where "Some Like It Hot" left off, with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe snuggled up together and she says, "Let's have a party," and he says, "Yes, Let's have a party. It might even turn out to be a SURPRISE party."

It's from what has come to be known as the golden age of porn. That is to say, there is a plot. It's not simply repetitive closeups of the Washington Monument meeting the Holland Tunnel, although we have the obligatory orgie scene.

The first skin flick I saw was at a theater in Times Square, years ago, with a friend, Phil, and his wife Ingrid. We sat there in silence for about ten minutes, at first excited, then bored. "Why do you think they keep pulling out?" asked Phil. "Maybe they're all Catholics," offered Ingrid. After half an our of subsidence into boredom I asked the guy sitting in the seat next to me for a match. "Sure," he said nervously, taking a book of perspiration-soaked matches from his breast pocket and handing them to me. It's a curious thing to watch human being copulate. After a while it's just as boring as if they were rhesus macaques. Maybe less so.

At any rate this one belongs to the golden age when plots were introduced, however minimal they might be, even compared to afternoon soaps. And it's interesting to see what genetalia looked like before glabrous became glamorous. The women are glossy and beautiful, the men indistinguishable.

Its stimulation quotient, for males, is maybe 50 percent. Not good, not bad. The plot is dismissable, as is the acting, the direction, the score -- everything except the sexual encounters, and as far as they go there have been worse. There have been better too.

Underwhelming mish-mash from big-deal feature team

[lor_ · 10 May 2016]

In the Golden days of porno-chic, the Svetlana-Frazier team produced big-budget, big-star movies of a high standard. "Sexboat", inspired by TV's "Love Boat", is a clumsily made programmer not up to their usual work.

Location filming and a very lengthy cast list spell big bucks, but the results are meager. As a structuralist I was taken aback by the paste-up job aspect of the movie, the first 16 minutes of which (including credits accounting for 20% of total running time) are just tacked-on to the film proper. This prologue has two sex scenes involving abusive cuckold husband Kevin James forcing his wife Loni Sanders to hump her boyfriend Mike Ranger, and then Kevin having a threesome with two cuties out in his Hefner mansion-styled lagoon.

He sends Loni on an all-female cruise ship (costing $5,000 a pop) to punish her, and it turns out she's never seen in the following scenes aboard the vessel. The awkwardly edited final reels are very sloppy, and Loni is reconciled with Kevin, their participation uncredited and not integrated into the rest of the movie. I don't see this glaring defect referred to in the previous reviews on IMDb, but it is obvious. I suppose they added these stars to a finished film for commercial reasons.

The hour-long main film is stillborn, establishing a premise lifted from Billy Wilder's classic "Some Like It Hot", acknowledged explicitly by the lead player exclaiming "Nobody's perfect" early on, quoting that film's memorable final line. Randy West and pal Robert Lyon stowaway aboard the cruise ship in unconvincing drag, in order to get their hands on all the lovely ladies.

Scenario is very poorly developed: the boys have repeated slapstick sex scenes, frequently reveal their identities to the girls, and nothing much happens. Out of desperation, an idiotic subplot takes over as the ship is invaded by pirates in cahoots with the corrupt female captain as part of a never-realized kidnapping scheme. This gives our jerky heroes a chance to be heroic, and amounts to nothing more than childish cosplay action and the occasional 'Arghhh!" on the soundtrack.

Some famous actresses stand out momentarily in the ensemble, including Kelly Nichols imported from NYC as a lesbian and Little Oral Annie as breast in show plus deep throat purveyor. It adds up to an over-stuffed, scatter- shot nothing.