L'insegnante va in collegio

This review concerns the version released in Germany as 'Flotte Teens und die neue Schulmieze'. During the first twenty minutes we see Gloria Guida and some pals drive around aimlessly in footage from `Peccati di gioventù' (1975). Suddenly we switch to Edwige Fenech starting work as an English teacher at a boy's college in `L'Insegnante va in Collegio' (1978). No further attempts are made to edit the two films together. Gloria and Edwige may both be featured on the poster, but they never shared the screen together.

Only people as dimwitted as the men in the latter portion of the film would fail to notice Guida's complete absence after La Fenech enters the picture. But being a Fenech fan, you won't hear any complaints from me. Edwige has to cope with an even bigger collection of dribbling idiots than usual, ranging from horny students (always including Alvaro Vitali, apparently too stupid to graduate), their parents (Lino Banfi, Renzo Montagnani) and moronic teachers (Carlo Sposito, Gianfranco D'angelo). Lucky for them Edwige is willing to stand in as the gym teacher as well. Compared to her other two outings as 'L'Insegnante', this one features only the minimum required nude scenes by Fenech: a strip tease fantasy (in the classroom) and a short shower sequence (power to the peep-hole).

Now if they really wanted to make something original, they should have spliced some more scenes with Gloria Guida in there. For after those first twenty minutes, `Peccati di gioventù' turned into a murder mystery in which Gloria plots to kill her step-mother. Combining that into a crass sex comedy like `L'Insegnante va in Collegio' would certainly have ensured a cult following. But then they could not have used the title `Flotte Teens', which was probably their only reason to hire an editor in the first place.

5 out of 10