PHENOMENALITY: *marvelous*
MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *comedy*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological*
CAM GIRL is the first in an OAV series that might be termed "Giant-Porn." About its only significance is that though it's been designed for roughly the same market that liked ATTACK OF THE 60 FOOT CENTERFOLDS and ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT CHEERLEADER, CAM GIRL is the only one that actually borrows the primary dramatic conflict of the big-girl movie that started it all: ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN. To wit: as in the first ATTACK, the girl with the gigantic assets starts out as an ordinary Earth-woman whose husband is cheating on her, and she ends up using her biggitude to take vengeance.
But it's impossible to have even the slight investment needed for a supremely slight comedy when all of the characters are terminally stupid. Popular cam-girl Ivy (Beverly Wood) has made a fortune posing for sexy videos, but she has no idea that her sleazy camera-guy/husband Bradley is boning another model, Fuschia (Christine Nguyen), whom Bradley even photographs side by side with Ivy. To diversify their wealth, Bradley has Ivy invest in a gimcrack experiment to expand foodstuffs to end world hunger. (The experiment is represented by a whole three scientists.) Ivy is too impatient to wait for trials, so she eats one of the experimental foods herself, and of course it makes her into Giant Girl. After coping with this turn of events, she finds out about the affair. Yet Bradley's so stoked about selling more videos with Ivy's titanic bod, Fuschia gets jealous and with equal stupidity eats some of the giantizing food too. Thus CAM GIRL is able to compete with CENTERFOLDS and CHEERLEADER in spotlighting a catfight of colossi at the end-- though it's the most listless of the three, thanks to Jim Wynorski's usual bad direction.
Oh, one other mildly original touch: Bradley gets punished by what might be called a "double motorboat of doom," though somehow he survives to show up for this crapfest's first sequel.
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