Isle of Lesbos

By: Scott Cranin
In-House Review - Jan 25 2012

Outrageous in concept and cartoonishly campy in execution, this high energy, patently offensive musical romp will have you either dancing in the aisles or running for the exits. In Bumbuck, Arkansas, a dirt-water town peopled by white Bible-thumping hicks, we find Alice, a sweet young thing who, in a moment of despair before her shotgun wedding, kills herself. She reemerges on the Isle of Sapphos - an Amazonian underworld led by a corpulent queen (Blatz Balinski, a bear-guzzling bulldyke's bulldyke) who rules over a bevy of gorgeous, scantily clad lesbian subjects (and one gay boy-toy there to do the laundry). Alice discovers her sexual wonderland as she embraces the Sapphic way of life. But the folks back home arrive determined to take her back to their heterosexual world. As lesbian camp musicals -- it's a classic (quick, name another!)

By: Amos Lassen

"Isle of Lesbos" is a musical comedy but the word comedy is an understatement-here is a movie that will have you holding your sides. It looks like those old 1940 Hollywood movies with garish color and a large cast that breaks into song whenever. Imagine Dr. Franknfurter meets Gordon McRae and Shirley Jones but with a lesbian twist.
I have actually been hearing about this film for quite some time but could not find out how to get a copy and now it is available in DVD at the TLA site. Just the names of the characters-April Pfferpot, Blatz Balinski, Emphysema Jones, Dick Dickson, Lance the Nance, Dr Sigmoid Colon make you laugh. The singing is good and the lines come fast and furiously. You don't finish laughing at one and then you get slapped with another and another and another.... The movie is shallow, fluff and great fun.