Verdict
Summary
While Sex is Crazy is pretty moronic and terminally horny, it’s also just bizarrely strange. Fans of Franco will appreciate it more than anyone else. All others will be completely bewildered by it.
Plot:
Aliens plan to mate with human females.
Review:
An avant-garde live stage production featuring spray-painted (silver, for the inquiring mind) nude performers act out a feverish, but stilted play about the abduction, seduction, and rape or ravishing of human females by alien invaders captures the attention of a masked group of aliens from space who are watching said play from the audience. What are the odds that aliens from another world happen to be watching an experimental live show about aliens mating with human females? Who knows, but there you have it. The aliens find the concept on display to be very intriguing, and so they take their masks off, seduce a couple of the actors / performers (one of the women is played by blonde-wigged Lina Romay), and suddenly the two females fall for the aliens and marry them in a rushed city hall ceremony, are whisked away on an exotic honeymoon, and get busy mating in ritualistic sex for days on end. The women have no idea that their husbands are from another world, but when their alien husbands become exhausted with the constant sex with the same partners, getting no “results” (impregnation, which was the whole point), the aliens set their sights on other females, breaking the poor hearts of their jealous wives. Sex is crazy, y’all!
A spoof of sex movies, science fiction films, and exploitation movies of various types, Jess Franco’s jokey and lackadaisical Sex is Crazy is basically a porno without overt penetration or gynecological close-ups, although it’s pretty much all that too, just more playful. It’s a nonstop parade of sex and nudity, which in a sense, is the cinema’s cheapest special effect, and Franco fills it with lots and lots of that, but not much else, which gives the film a draggy and mostly pointless plot. When the movie isn’t a flesh show, the camera lingers on long car rides, distant shots of tides rushing in, cityscapes through hotel rooms, and languid close ups of orgiastic faces, breasts, and pubic regions, ad infinitum. It just goes on and on sometimes with no plot, but then Franco throws a curveball every once in awhile like showing a random naked woman on a bed and declaring that this nude lady is the producer’s cousin or daughter or someone who wants to be famous. It’s funny, and then Franco himself can be seen a few times filming the movie we’re watching, which breaks the fourth wall, as if he’s spoofing himself and the kinds of movies he made. It’s disarmingly wacky, and so while Sex is Crazy is pretty moronic and terminally horny, it’s also just bizarrely strange. Fans of Franco will appreciate it more than anyone else. All others will be completely bewildered by it.
Severin’s Blu-ray release of Sex is Crazy presents the film in a fine 2K scan, and some special features include some interviews with Franco experts, and another bonus feature on Franco.
