Dasepo Naughty Girls

2007

Korea

Third Window Films

Web: http://www.thirdwindowfilms.com

Reviewer: Bob Estreich

Korean, subtitled in very bad English

This happy little spoof is all the better for being translated from Korean. It is a cross between Debbie Does Dallas and High School Musical, with that special “lost a bit in translation” touch that makes it even funnier. It was based on a Korean online comic and its origins show. Each character gets their little episode, and they all intertwine in a show that gets progressively more bizarre as it goes on. It never loses its comedy touch, though, and its brightly-coloured candyfloss look.

In confronts that awkward question faced by poor schoolgirls – should I become a prostitute to buy my little brother a new pair of sneakers? Along the way there will be many discoveries and challenges.

The English teacher at Useless High School has syphilis. Most of the class, including the boys, find urgent reasons for going to the doctor. The only one who missed out is Cyclops, the one-eyed bastard. Will he find love in spite of his deformity? What about his sister, who has a penis?

Your father is Pure Blossom, the nympho teenage girl who never quite reveals all on the internet chat sites.

Is it appropriate to whip your teacher on his backside because he failed to teach you that football originated in Korea?

True love is when the girl pays for the hotel room.

Why do girls prefer white panties?

Life can be confusing for a schoolboy planning a career when the TV advertises “You like other men? Come join the military”

The songs are just as confusing

A gushing young spirit hi hi

No Use High

Wisely chip, polish and oil,

Shining wisdom

Become the rain on the land of the people

Even allowing for losing a lot in translation, this is truly weird. The school also has classes for Moslems, Buddhists, Hare Krishna, and enthusiastic hand-clapping Catholics.

How hard can it be to lose your virginity? Pretty hard when your customer is the local crime boss, Big Razor Sis, who prefers to cross-dress as a 200 pound schoolgirl and be photographed with you as his / her girlfriend and play schoolgirls together. Things turn nasty when one of the schoolgirls is kidnapped by the Erotic Realm nightclub to be a virgin sacrifice. The bumbling henchmen also accidentally kidnap the crime boss in his schoolgirl outfit. Our schoolgirl heroine, however, discovers a talent for erotic dancing and she and Big Razor Sis escape when the crime boss sacrifices his beloved yellow panties to the sex-crazed crowd.

There is, of course, a love story. Will our young heroine find love with the handsome Swiss exchange student? Or is he really her adopted-out brother? Or will the evil school Principal get to her and install his Instant Virgin chip in her?

The school Principal, of course, is an agent of the even-more-evil Eemuki, a snake Goddess from the Erotic Realm. Fortunately the goddess can be defeated by the “Forces of Yang”, a mass masturbation ceremony, which the students seem to be familiar with. After that, it only remains for all the loose ends to be sorted out and to have the compulsory end-of-school musical number.

It could be just another piece of high-school fluff but instead it’s a hilarious mature comedy that goes where American school comedies wouldn’t dare. I loved it.

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