"Sex Kittens Go To College" is a terrible film...with lousy writing, dumb acting and not much going for it. However, at least it isn't trying to be a good film and in fact it is trying very hard to be a stupid and terrible movie!When the film begins, some college decides to hire the perfect professor and they use their computer to tell them the choice. It suggests Dr. West (Mamie Van Doren)--a woman with 15 degrees and with an IQ of nearly 300*! So, without even meeting her, they offer West a position at the school and are shocked when she shows because she's one hot lady...and later they discover she's a stripper! As for Dr. West, she mostly spouts a lot of pseudo- intellectual nonsense which is to supposedly indicate she's a super- genius. On hand throughout the film are a brain-dead jock with some sexual hangups, a group of gangsters, a smart chimp dressed like a student (perhaps Bonzo's cousin), a horny and somewhat dim French student (Bridget Bardot's real life sister) and a LOT of really bad acting!This movie is much like the later Beach movies (such as "Beach Blanket Bingo")--with very broad acting and writing. It's clearly designed for younger folks who frequented drive-in theaters-- undemanding and dopey. The overall effort is a bit painful to watch and the film is amazingly stupid and just plain bad. Even a guest performance by Conway Twitty (as himself) isn't enough to save this one!*If you care, IQ scores back in the day were VERY unreliable and lacked real meaning with the old Stanford-Binet. The IQ scores obtained today using the much more widely accepted Wechsler tests top off at about 150...so if you meet anyone claiming to have a much higher score is likely lying, took some online test (that is meaningless) or was tested decades ago.

Hey any movie with a young Tuesday Weld is watchable. Yeah this movie is very campy but it has some good scenes as far as I am concerned. There are several pretty well known actors in this movie. Mamie Van Doran, Tuesday Weld, Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester), Martin Milner, Louis Nye, and John Carradine. Conway Twitty even has a part and sings. How a stripper gets 13 degrees is beyond me but I guess with an IQ of 268 anything could happen especially in a movie!! Bridget Bardot's sister even has a role here as an exchange student. I was actually surprised by Van Doran's acting ability, it was not top notch but a lot better than I expected. I thought she mostly be just covered T & A but not so.

I caught this in the mid 1960s as a late Sunday night, (intended for adults), telecast here in Chicago. It was presented under the 'Beauty and the Robot' title. I thought it was pretty good. You had Mamie as a super intelligent, HOT, babe, taking on an entire college and trying to win the smart guy, Todd, from Route 66. She gets to hypnotize John Carradine into dancing. She gets to drive a fire engine. Bridget Bardot's sister wears the frat pin of her boyfriend on her bra strap, which sticks out of the over-sized, FlashDance', neck of her sweatshirt. Super hot rodder Norman 'Woo Woo' Grabowski is a major character. Louis Nye plays an old man. What more do you need ? Also, the full name of the computer/robot is SAM Thinko. The SAM stands for System Analog Modulator. It means nothing, but, sounds technical. Would be great to watch with friends and a few beers. Oh, yeah, we had a color TV, and, I swear this was in color. Maybe not.

There are no actual decapitations, cattle mutilation, desecration of houses of worship, or spurting arteries in Sex Kittens Go To College. Within those limits, this is ghastly beyond anything you can imagine. Imagine Mamie van Doren as an ex-stripper with an IQ of 268 and twelve college degrees - no, thirteen, hired as a college professor. Imagine Jackie Coogan as a blustering oilman doing a 45-minute W.C. Fields impression. Imagine Martin Milner out-geeking Eddie Deezen, a twelve-foot robot named Thinko that handicaps horse races, a chimp in golf pants. Imagine the most credible and disciplined performance in the film being turned in by Louis Nye. Imagine Vampira so hagged out you'd flee to the arms of Nancy Kulp...Brigitte Bardot's little sister as an exchange student...Conway Twitty...fire engine...funny gangsters... Are your sides aching with laughter yet? Terrifyingly awful. The only saving grace is that neither Woody Woodbury nor Paul Anka makes a guest appearance.