I am RavenGlamDVDCollector@gmail.com. I am a sucker for Hollywood glamor. So if I go thumbs down, something must be very, very wrong. No, the movie isn't all bad, though I dearly love how that other reviewer put it so eruditely: 'Bettie's films were destroyed. This film should have been destroyed too'. Right on! Sums it up!
THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE was disappointing. But this one has zero going for it save the recreations of the bondage vignettes. The movie itself is a waste of time. And note that the vignettes had to be very static with a fixed camera, little movement except up and down, and to add to this dull closed- circuit TV look, you have lots of the movie itself bogged down in similar dull shots.
Toddlers in a nursery school play are more exciting. Well, gee, I'm talking about the rest of the movie, the weak story, for at least there is a lot of sexy stuff, even if kinda dull.
That cheetah at the end has my attitude. However much Paige flirted with the haughty creature, after this Burnt Turkey of a movie, he wanted nothing to do with her. Even when she got naked. By the way, after all these years of watching end titles, a movie that rewards that effort.
I am quite ashamed of the low score I'm giving it. The vignetted are (I suppose) faithfully recreated, and clearly deserve more, but the movie is a wasted opportunity. The vignettes should have been spliced in with THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE, and this one need then not have gone further than that.
A tremendous disappointment!
