Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Finally, I saw a movie here at the Santa Barbara Film Festival that I’m excited to write-up.
I don’t know what the fuck DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS is, but I do know that I love it.
Okay, let me try to figure this out. It’s a Korean movie. That’s something. It’s a Korean movie that features, in no particular order, pink-haired ladies singing, a Cyclops, a dragon, a little green circle that gives girls back their virginity, a masochistic teacher, a cross-dressing businessman (he like Sailor Moon, apparently), an underground sex club, a chick with a dick and more than a few Karaoke musical numbers complete with the counting down hand and light up (Korean) characters as the people on the screen sing.
The movie won me over in the first scene where a substitute teacher comes in and tells this high school class (the subject is Atheism) that he’s filling in for their regular teacher because he’s at the hospital with an STD. The class gasps and then the sub tells the chubby girl she should have herself checked out.
That starts a domino effect. She slaps another boy and says she has to leave. That boy mutters something about “so that’s what that rash was” and causes student after student to excuse themselves as the sexual history of the class unfolds… female to male to female to male… sometimes male to male, etc, until only two people are left in the class: a lonely one-eyed student and a really cute girl with poverty on her back. Literally… a little stuffed figure she can’t remove.
From here it gets tricky. We’re introduced to a few dozen characters, all fuckin’ crazy. Two smart-ass high school investigators (who use a PSP to cheat in class and look up solutions to problems they encounter), a rich Swiss exchange student (of obvious Korean descent), a bitchy popular girl, a creepy principal, a proud Korean history teacher who insists the hot girls of the class whip him when they get an answer wrong, a crazy pyramid-selling mother, Cyclops’ beautiful sister (who is really his beautiful brother, as we learn when we see her go to a urinal, lift up her skirt and piss) and so many more.
The sound effects and sped-up photography at some points make the film feel like a live action Looney Tunes mixed with Benny Hill. There are some awesome fart jokes, some great cheesy CG work that can only come out of that part of the world and those musical numbers…
I don’t know how in the hell any of you can see this movie outside of film festivals, but if hilariously weird shit is up your alley then this one is for you. Here’s hoping someone with some balls puts this out in the states… maybe Anchor Bay… This is a new cult classic in the making.
-Quint
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