Mag Wheels

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Mag Wheels

The movie starts out pretty good with the dynamics between the guys and the girls hanging out with their vans that seems to be pretty popular in the 70s. But as the movie goes on the guys become really unlikable with one girl and the lack of problem solving when it comes to certain incidents are really frustrating. The movie ends kinda silly and disappointing.

This 1978 rape movie is being rebranded as summer school and listed as a comedy on Netflix.in the seventies these kind of movies were called drive in movies. That's about the only place that showed them. Later to be called exploitation movies. I'm guessing everyone it it regrets it.

Hot '70s chicks,cool vans,Paradise Cove beach in Malibu,some pinball,some skateboarding,some good music and some *! And if you look hard enough you'll notice gas was .59 cents a gallon and you will see the Paradise Cove pier before it was destroyed a couple years after filming(from high surf and never rebuilt). Not really a comedy and maybe less * than you'd like, but its good 'ol 70's fun (at least until the third act when there are a some not fun things) Would have liked to seen more of Shelly Horner,movie-wise and topless-wise. Drive-In style fun with great 1970s vibe. If you've got 81 minutes to spare...check it out!

A movie is usually summarized by what happens to or the changes in the main character, in this case Anita. She is the new girl in town and at school who works at the local fun park. Her boss tries to rape her. She has a difficult relationship with her father. She is a gang rape victim from the popular guys she met working at the fun park. Closes out the movie by driving her father's car over a cliff in order to stop a game of chicken between the movie's two rival groups. Very dark for a movie billed as a coming of age T&A flick. It has hot vans, trucks, men and women. The obligatory nudity, nerdy pledge and beach fun are all present. Weed, beer and comedic elements throughout the movie. Too much screen time is spent on showcasing skateboarders that has no bearing on the plot. Like I said, I don't know how to define this movie. If nothing else it is a good 1970s time capsule for a country that no longer exists.

Anybody who use to watch USA Network's show UP ALL NIGHT in the late 1980's has probably seen this movie. I recently had the fortune of getting an original VHS copy. This is a must see for anybody looking for a cheesy movie about teenagers who drive vans and pick-ups, hang out at the beach, skateboard at the Boogie Bowl and party at the lake. The story revolves around a new girl at school and the tension she causes when the local stud falls for her. The characters are completely addicted to using the phrase "shine it" and the best line of the movie comes from a tuff chick who after being put down emphatically says "I'm Jill, Fly Me!". Directed by Southern skin flick legend Bethel Buckalew. Summer School does not appear to be the original title but a new name for the video release. After reading a review for Buckalew's film "Mag Wheels" they are the same movie and this is probably the original title.

Endless love, pot and heavy petting amidst a battle of the sexes between two rival surfie van gangs. Director Buckajew has filmed his share of teen flesh helming 60s backwoods nudies (The Pigkeeper's Daughter, Country Cuzzins) for Harry Novak's Box Office International (who also had Mag Wheels producer Peter Perry, aka 'AP Sootsberry', on the payroll), but takes time out to include other teensploitation essentials - frisbees, pinball, lame-o skateboarding, and those whacking paddles they used in Dazed And Confused - all from that awkward cultural limbo between Alice Cooper and John Travolta. Good to see jocks are the heroes and the nerds are zeroes, and that Women's Liberation had progressed to lines like `I'm Rachel. Fly me.' John Laughlin (here billed as "McLaughlin"), cast years later as Kathleen Turner's sex toy in Crimes Of Passion, heads a gormless no-name roster.

This film is so inept, so awful that it is amazingly entertaining. Hack director Bethel Buckelew who made some money with sleazy drive-in hits like Pigkeeper's Daughter (where one wants to shower immediately after watching it)he decides to move to the beaches of Cal-y-fornia where there a busty babes, vans, pick up trucks, pot smoking, bad acting, endless scenes of frizzy haired teens skateboarding at the teen hang-out The Boogie Bowl and, oh yes, some very unpleasant rape scenes. The acting is hilariously off, flubbed lines, badly shot van chases and a rock score with songs that scream out "Lounge Act"!!! For fans who love trash and cheese, this one is for you.