I couldn't easily decide whether the low-Wattis 'Games That Lover's Play' was the truly bad film my initial impressions suggested it might be! This ultimately proved to be a singularly strange, not infrequently tepid ribald comedy about boorish bordello brinkmanship, as two ceaselessly conniving madams, fiesty Fanny Hill (Joanna Lumley), and the languorously lissome Lady Chatterley (Penny Brahms) brashly undertake a hi-jinks-inspiring wager over whose brothel is the very breast, low-brow bosh while fitfully bemusing, with an expressly bizarro sequence with Richard Wattis being given the 'full Monty' tour of bodacious Ms. Hills garishly adorned boudoir making for a rather grim impression! But kudos for the ubiquitous Mr. Wattis for gamely playing against type here, but, sadly, any 'comedy' film that boisterously climaxes with the remarkably zesty threesome of Lumley, Brahms, and Wattis that still fails to rise to the occasion is, quite frankly, in desperate trouble, all that being said, to be entirely fair, the jaunty music by is a pretty spiffy affair, an on reflection, however misguided, the inherent narrative kookiness of 'Games That Lover's Play' perhaps, lends Malcolm Leigh's clumsy celluloid oddity some hokey bad movie charm! And it goes without saying that both the luxuriously leggy Joanna Lumley, and persistently perky Penny Brahms are more than easy on the eye!
