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Talk about
recycling, eh folks? Director Mike Davis who helped bring us the
sexified neo-grindhouse cult film “Pervert!” follows up with the utterly
ridiculous “Sex Galaxy,” a film comprised of 100% public domain and
stock footage to tell us the story of a future where folks have to
travel thousands of miles in to space to get their sexual pleasure.
While Davis’ declaration that this is the first movie made up of all
stock footage and public domain clips is not exactly true (“Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” comes to mind), “Sex Galaxy” does manage to be more original
than most indie films out there. The integration of voice acting with
public domain footage and stock shots is almost seamless, and “Sex
Galaxy” introduces us to yet another really hot buxom blonde:
Puma Swede, who voices the sex Martian
queen Willa.
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I was very
hesitant in approaching “Sex Galaxy” since experiments like
this are almost always completely flat reaches for
originality, but director Davis and Fitz’s very competent
editing makes the combination of footage a formula for
innovation. There are Sex Ed movie clips, stag film bits,
and even a chunk of “Voyage to the
Planet of the Prehistoric Women” that manages to introduce a
robotic pimp that interrupts our Martian men in their
efforts to persuade the aliens to pleasure them.
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“Sex Galaxy” is a
part tongue in cheek commentary mixed with an endless slew of innuendos
and entendres, and though many will be compelled to turn this off after
the fifteenth sex joke, I think folks more accustomed to what Stag films
aims for will appreciate the wonky method of telling such an unusual
story with a shameless array of vaginal puns and riffs on the bad acting
in the footage. I’m glad Davis tries for more creativity with this
independent film rather than go for yet another typical independent
comedy with bad sets or acting. This is the company that gave us that
wild bastard child of Russ Meyer “Pervert!” after all. Mike Davis takes
the considerably paper thin premise and pulls off some surprisingly
genuine laughs, with some great running gags. I don’t know what the hell
Stag films is going to do next, but I’m rather excited to see what.
It's weird, it's surreal, and the audience for this will be split down
the middle, but it's inventive, funny, entertaining, and really does
manage to express what the unique vision Stag films and their crew push
for.

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