Once Upon a Girl...
U.S.A. | 1976
Directed by Don Jurwich
Starring
Richmond Johnson
Carol Piacente

Hal Smith
Color
| 80 Minutes | Not Rated
Format: DVD (R1 - NTSC)
Severin Films
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Guest Review by Nick Coccellato
Mother Goose (Hal Smith, town drunk "Otis Campbell" in The Andy Griffith Show) is being put on trial for "disturbing the peace, unlawful assembly, and murder(!)... murdering our most valued children's moralistic teachings." To prove she's the real deal, Mother Goose tells "the real version" of three very well-known fairy tales: Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood. Only "the real version," according to Mother Goose, involves sex — good, old-fashioned sex... With cartoons.
   
In "the real version" of Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack plays a peeping tom (with an annoying stutter stolen from Porky the Pig) who dry humps a hole in a tree while watching a fair maiden pleasure herself. When that proves to be a catastrophe (a squirrel living in the hole bites his dick!), Jack goes to suck the udders of a cow. His mom comes over and tells him to sell the cow so he stops his sucking. In his travels, Jack encounters the 8th dwarf from Snow White (a flasher) and a sexy gypsy goddess that gives him magic beans for the cow. Jerking off while thinking about the cow's tits leads to a load landing on the beans outside of Jack's house. From those beans and that cum grows a phallic beanstalk that takes Jack up to a castle in the sky, inhabited by a very horny maiden and her husband. I won't say what happens in the end, but let me just say that Jack finds himself in a very sticky situation. (Yikes!)
    In "the real version" of Cinderella, Fortunato (a promiscuous suitor) and his daughter Cinderella are duped by Morta (a really, really ugly woman). Morta gets a beauty potion from the Wicked Witch of the Whang (I shit you not, Whang) which tricks Fortunato into marriage. When the spell dissipates, Fortunato goes crazy. Morta, denied the riches of Fortunato due to his madness, forces Cinderella to labor for her and her two other daughters (who have a weird penchant for mutual masturbation). Meanwhile, the prince of the land, in need of a bride, holds a ball to look for his woman. Morta denies Cinderella permission to go, but that won't stop Cinderella! With her fairy godmother no help (she mistakenly turns Cinderella into a pumpkin!), Cinderella arrives in a string bikini made from the two pieces of garment left over from her stepsisters' dresses. The prince is star-struck. The two fuck in an orgy of rainbows, stars, and moonlight. The clock strikes 12:00, and Cinderella runs off. Will they get together? Oh, come on, you know this story!
    In "the real version" of Little Red Riding Hood (probably the best of the three animated segments), Red needs to get to the wedding, but is stopped by several men who demand "the price of passage" sex. During intercourse, she sees wild colors appear in the sky and the trees. She has had an orgasm. She wants more. Toward the end of the journey, she gets so used to fucking every man she comes near that she jerks off one guy she just happens to run into. Arriving at the wedding in her birthday suit, she incites an all out... well, you'll just have to see for yourself!
    By the end of all of these stories, the courtroom begins having an orgy of its own! The judge starts feeling up the stenographer, the prosecution licks her feet, and the jury box is in full-swing orgy mode. Mother Goose has proved her point, and every one lived happily ever after. ("BULLSHIT!")
    This movie was directed by Don Jurwich (animation) and Jack Conrad (live-action). Jurwich, as some of you may know, was a layout and design artist for animated shows like The Flinstones, George of the Jungle, and Josie and the Pussycats (as well as a producer for Scooby-Doo and Scrappy Doo). This film was obviously a way of saying "fuck you" to every Disney cartoon the filmmakers had ever seen. They were also trying to poke fun at the fairy tale genre while at the same time put in a little — strike that— a LOT of sex. Well, they got one out of two...
    The problem with the film is that the acting and dialogue is sub-par. For example, in "Jack and the Beanstalk," the characters spout out lines that are just plain embarrassing (for us and them). Didn't anyone ever tell them that no one likes dialogue with porn?! When Jack was sucking off the cow, Mother Goose said, "Look at that little sucker suck! That kid could suck the nipples off a troll!" I mean, come on! I could write better stuff than that! "Make sure she hasn't passed her expiration date!" Now, that would have been a nice addition.
   
The sad fact is that this movie isn't that good. Coming from shows like The Flintstones and Josie and the Pussycats, you'd think Jurwich would put in more creative material, but it's mostly just a lame excuse to see cartoons doing it. In fact the only real high point in the film is when the king in the Cinderella tale says, "I've got to get you [the prince] married and screwing to insure a line of succession!"
   
Don't get me wrong, all of the cartoon sex scenes are stroke-worthy, but after seeing a lot of porn (I can't believe I'm going to say this), I've come to expect, nigh, appreciate a little more than just the standard humpin' and pumpin'.

The DVD from Severin Films is pretty good. Picture and sound quality is surprisingly clear and crisp for this little-seen 1976 feature, which is presented in anamorphic (1.85:1) widescreen. The extras are okay. There is a trailer and interview with the film's executive producer, William Silberkleit. He makes interesting light of his experiences in moviemaking, from filming one of Alice Cooper's concerts in London to working with Linda Lovelace ("She wasn't the brightest. She really wasn't"). While informative, one wishes that the DVD would have included interviews with Don Jurwich and any one of the female Disney animators who worked on the film, of whom Silberkleit says had an "imagination of sex [that] was unbelievable." 1/06/07
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