Pretty Peaches (Vinegar Syndrome) Review

Reviewed by T0MBOne  on  11/28/2016

The fine folks at Vinegar Syndrome have cleaned up and re-released Alex DeRenzy's PRETTY PEACHES (1978) with the original 91 minute 35mm film intact and looking better than ever in all its wide screen glory. Bouncy and bubbly Desiree Cousteau plays Peaches, who takes a knock on the head then wanders about not knowing who she is, which is a recipe for horn dogs and other assorted sleaze bags to take advantage of her. No condoms but plenty of wacky dialog accompanying the sexual shenanigans in this xxx comedy concoction.

"Always having too much fun to be on time."

That's how Peaches' daddy, Hugh (a bearded Jon Leslie) describes his daughter to his wife-to-be Lillian (light skinned African American performer, Flower) as Peaches is late to their wedding. She pulls up in her jeep, stays awhile, but skips out soon after for more jeep joy riding that results in her crashing through some brush.

"Do you think these panties are too tight?"

Dim wits The Kid and Jessie witness Peaches' plight and decide to start loosening her clothes, which leads The Kid (Joey Silvera) to sample Peaches' fruit in an interesting suck and fuck encounter between Silvera and a dazed Cousteau.

"Think about me."

Lillian comforts Hugh, who is worried about Peaches. Cue their honeymoon encounter in a bouncy bed between Leslie and Flower with John painting her furry pussy and tummy with a cum shot finisher.

"I'm filling up, Uncle Percy!"

The nim rods drop Peaches off to see their Uncle Percy in hopes that he can do something about her amnesia. She whistles her way to a mirrored room where Uncle Percy grabs ahold and pulls her into a bath room where Percy's solution to Peaches' problem is an enema. Wow! How else to describe this wacky encounter?

"You bring home this sex freak."

Katia, Hugh's house keeper (Juliet Anderson AKA Aunt Peg) is none too pleased with Hugh's bride until all three end up in the sack in a short three way encounter with Juliet, Flower and John Leslie.

"$1250 a month, golly!"

Peaches and the two dip shits spend the night together but she leaves their bedroom pawing for the comfort of the kitchen where she checks out some want-ads. The next day, she interviews at a club where she soon finds her arms and legs strung up while a lesbo gang ravages her on stage while tickets are taken/more foolishness occurs off stage. Look for Holly Mc Call, Liza Dwyer, Mimi Morgan and Ming Jade sucking and grabbing a defenseless Peaches!

"Wait 'til I tell Jessie and The Kid what happened to me"

Peaches returns to find The Kid and Jessie with some local girls. Cue a couch encounter with Silvera and a young Sharon Kane, with Nancy Hoffman joining in later.

"A doctor's not a pervert like some people."

Peaches leaves the horn dogs and their local girls to wander onto a golf course where a shrink driving a golf cart, Dr. Stewart (Paul Thomas) offers to help Peaches. Later, at his office, he's soon helping himself to some Peaches after a brief doctor/patient bit. Cue a solid sex scene with the fellas watching the beautifully shot couch encounter between PT and Desiree.

"I thought it was an ordinary party. I didn't know, Mom! Daddy come back!"

Dr. Stewart, Peaches guardian angel, promises her that her problems will be solved at his party that turns into a terrific orgy with a host of party goers plus Hugh and Lillian and the dim rods all joining in the fun. Cue the orgy finale with many participants aglow and shiny from oil that seems to glisten in the bright movie lights of the movie shoot. Look for lovelies like Desiree, Flower, Eileen Welles, Kathy Kaufman, Lisa Sue Corey, and Phaedra Grant in this oily mash up with John, Joey, PT, Ken Scudder and Turk Lyon.

"I'm taking my ranch, my money and run!"

Says Hugh after he nearly sucks and fucks his own kin. He exits leaving Peaches in the arms of...Mom!

In the de Renzy interview that's in the extras, Alex explains his xxx movie making approach. Working in Vegas circa 1960, he observed how John Huston dealt with actors on the set of the MISFITS. Huston would tell Marilyn Monroe (or the other actors) "now that was good, let's try it this way" so de Renzy adopted this approach when dealing with porn actors. He claimed porn performers could really only be expected to play themselves; so, with that in mind, he made mostly porn comedies with a stable of performers chosen for their ability to take off their clothes and fuck on camera. Acting chops was lagniappe.

A contemporary of de Renzy, Dr. Ted Mcilvenna also lands an interview and discusses de Renzy and other bits of porn history. Add three trailers to this mix and that's a terrific group of special features there!

So, Alex de Renzy's PRETTY PEACHES (1978, Vinegar Syndrome restoration 2015) is a wild, wild ride that follows the crazy exploits of
Peaches, who says she's from nowhere until she finds herself face to face with Mommy and Daddy at the swingers' party. Desiree Cousteau is the best she's ever been and de Renzy surrounds her with an incredible group of porn performers in a string of nutty encounters that kicks this flick to the top of the xxx comedy porn niche.

!!!!! outta !!!!!

Bravo to de Renzy for uncorking this one and bravo to Vinegar Syndrome for restoring his film to its past glory!

And now for some QUICKIES---Pretty Peaches Edition

Vinegar Syndrome has also restored the other two in the series.

The above review is for the single DVD version of PRETTY PEACHES that's also on Blue-Ray. PRETTY PEACHES 2 and 3 are a double feature plus there's the trio of the original, 2 and 3 on Blue-Ray.

The first film is terrific but the two lesser entries are also worth a look.

PRETTY PEACHES 2 (1987)--Peaches (the leggy and goofy Siobhan Hunter) leaves home in search of a sex education with a stop at Uncle Howard's that's loaded with crazy relatives and kitschy furniture. Tracey Adams plays her Mom and she lands most of the early sex scenes including her encounter with Peter North, playing Peaches' horny boyfriend, Bobby, plus scenes with Herschel Savage, Ron Jeremy (as Uncle Howard) and an interracial bit with FM Bradley.

In an earlier motel encounter, Peaches watches as Buck Adams sodomizes Jeanette Littledove; then, much later in the DVD's final third, she joins in the craziness: she sucks and fucks with Jamie Gillis in a granny get-up, in a dream within a dream sequence, a masked Asian warrior (Jeremy again) butt fucks Siobhan (pussy to ass to pussy action aplenty) then a girl-girl encounter (with the lovely Melissa Mendez) preludes a suck and fuck encounter with Peter North.

The dizzying array of de Renzy sex scenes are top notch but this film falters when Peaches is more observer than participant, which leaves the earlier two thirds of the film to focus more on Tracey Adams as the Mom, whose journey to find her daughter is not so interesting. 81 minutes. !!!! outta !!!!!

PRETTY PEACHES 3: THE QUEST aka PRETTY PEACHES AND THE QUEST (1989)---Peaches (the busty but not so goofy Keisha) finds herself on a journey for spiritual guidance but encounters too many professional quacks along the way. Mom (a plumper Tracey Adams) and Peaches boyfriend (Gene Carrera) are soon on her trail.

So, like her Peaches predecessors, she encounters an array of creepy characters and misfits but de Renzy gets a bit carried away with special effects-a blow up doll, dry ice and off-camera helicopter nosies, a smoking wall sculpture and the like. Social commentary also abounds especially Peaches' preachy finale to homeless people in an abandoned movie theater that follows on the heels of wacky encounters with televangelists (Jamie Gillis and Victoria Paris) plus a creepy doctor (Jon Martin) who kicks Peaches out of his "enlightenment" class.

As played by Keisha, Peaches is a bit too straight, too much of a dullard, compared to her counterparts from 1 and 2. Her character must maneuver through de Renzy's uneven mix of wildly staged sex scenes and his poorly delivered social commentary; and in the end, de Renzy's movie remains a rather strange joyride that aspires to heights better left to movies minus xxx intents. 91 minutes. !!! outta !!!!!

PRETTY PEACHES---!!!!! outta !!!!!

PRETTY PEACHES 2---!!!! outta !!!!!

PRETTY PEACHES 3---!!! outta !!!!!