This 1987 porn film is unlike any other you may have seen. Right from the start the jaunty theme tune is a bit odd and out of place but it is once the action begins that viewers will see what an oddity Living Doll is.
The film is set within a toy shop owned by a young man called Len (Randy Paul) who seems sexually frustrated and a bit peculiar. Len fancies his sexy shop assistant Bobbie (Amber Lynn) but she is not at all impressed by him - especially when she first, catches him trying to look up her skirt while she is up a ladder and then later, when she catches Len talking to the dolls as if they are real. However, what neither Len nor Bobbie know is that each night at midnight the toys and dolls in the shop come to life and nearly all of them are sex mad. The exceptions are the chaste Barbie Doll (Taija Rae) and her boyfriend Ken Doll (Steve Drake) who she won't allow to get up to anything with her.
The toys come to life seemingly thanks to the strange rapping of the Jack-in-the-Box (Jack Baker) and in the first scene we see the pretty Ballerina (Siobhan Hunter) and her lover the Drummer Boy (Joey Silvera) getting it on. Back in the real world, the following day Nina Hartley's customer comes in looking for a present for her child (who I must make it clear is NOT with her). Len recognises her from school where he must have been the only guy not to screw her - so she makes up for that omission now. That night when the Army Man Joe action figure (Herschel Savage) seems to have gone missing the other toys wonder at first if he has been sold during the night or if he has gone to "check out" the cabbage patch dolls! That leads to a sexual challenge to Joe from the female Robot doll (an almost unrecognisable Sharon Mitchell).
It is in the second-half of the film where the action really starts to heat up though. The Ballerina and the already cute Shanna McCullough as a Teddy Bear relieve Ken's sexual frustrations while Barbie sleeps. Then when a customer who looks distinctly like the rapping Jack-in-the-box comes into the shop he uses magic to transform Len and Bobbie into dolls and transport them to the toy shelf. Soon the other dolls are keen to try out the two new dolls with Len being seduced by the Robot, Ballerina and Teddy while Bobbie gets a DP from Joe and the Drummer Boy.
Needless to say all this sexual action finally thaws out Barbie and she and Ken finally consummate their relationship before in the final scene Len and Bobbie get it on - which seems to mean that they will remain 'Living Dolls' forever as the next day when Nina Hartley's customer shows up looking for Len she finds two new dolls looking like Len and Bobbie on the shelf. Who the hell opened the shop for the day is never explained!
All in all this is a decent retro porno from the 80s with some well known stars of the day in action. However, the childish music and setting may be a bit too weird for some people. You won't know till you see it - just FFW through the opening credits to avoid that creepy music.
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