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...that it matters, but most of it is true," proclaims one subtitle. In fact, most of it is impossibly farcical. The difficulties begin precisely when the film tries to be "true" to the historical characters. On the way to a nice spoof of Bonnie and Clyde, the plot is forced into a serious vein in order to relate the demise of the real Butch and Sundance...
...have an annoying contrast between soap opera and farce. Violence may be akin to farce, but too much violence is confusing. The glorification of the outlaw's life, only partly tongue-in-check, also weakens the humor. The film subtly encourages the puerile anti-hero-worship it meant to spoof...
DAMES AT SEA sets out to spoof the musicals of the '30s so familiar on the late shows. The naive little girl comes to Broadway to tap her way to stardom, picks her way past all the pitfalls, and finds glory as she goes into the usual diversions of intricate dance routines and glittering production numbers...
Volunteers for Science. One convulsively funny item is a spoof on the measurement of human sexual responses. Two volunteers for science strip to the buff, are maneuvered into position on a wheeled table and plastered with sensing devices. These are wired to a console that lights up like a berserk jukebox as the couple begins intercourse. To complete the burlesque, a Harpo Marxish doctor hovers around, leering at the pair with the added cyclopean eye of a dental mirror. Other skits treat oral sex and masturbatory fantasies with sportive humor, and the sprinkling of quadriliterals beginning with the letters...
DAMES AT SEA, with a talented cast of only six, is a delightful spoof of the movie musicals of the 1930s, with all their intricate dance routines and big, glittering production numbers...