Tigers in Lipstick

I bought this movie just because it had my favorite actor Roberto Benigni...and it took me a while just to find out who he was!!! Otherwise, the movie is a dubbed joke--hilariously bad. It's very funny to watch if you like that B movie appeal. Poor Roberto!!! He's sooooooooooooo much better than this trash!!!

Lamely functional eight-parter may be one of the most colossal misfires of its era, with the four willing actresses (of whose beauty and talents this should surely have been a celebration)wasted on sketches which are mainly plodding and obvious and in other cases amazingly brief and insubstantial. The visual approach is bland and straightforward - there's no zippiness, certainly no taste for farce or panache. And the most titillating thing in the movie is the seaside postcard-type design of the titles that link the episodes - the thing seems to lack much real sexual appetite. Andress is merely glacier-like in her first episode; this quality seems better deployed in her second, playing a woman in league with a repair shop, causing mass traffic crashes by strutting down the street half-dressed. Vitti is perhaps the most technically accomplished of the four but with the worst material. Kristel's opening episode is one of the better structured of the lot. Antonelli closes with a moderately complex role as a woman who juggles an attempt to sleep with a music conductor and a non-stop business schedule.

Most of the shorts within this film are pretty bad, and even if you want to see several sex symbols of the past in the same movie, it just isn't worth it. But at least this movie does save the best for last, as the final short with Laura Antonelli is definitely worth watching. So, if you ever come across this film, skip everything but the final twenty minutes or so. But if you do decide to watch it all, you probably won't be in a laughing mood once the only funny segment begins.

This could have been more enjoyable if the English dubbing could be better. I mean, jeez... I'll take Italian lessons or wait for the French version.

Still, the main actresses are all beautiful and funny. Watch out for a young Roberto Benigni with his typical haircut.

There are no Oscar winning performances in this one, however, it's not too bad. If you're looking for plot, pass. If you're looking for beautiful women showing skin, watch it.

Ursula Andress, as always, looks absolutely gorgeous.