Tetrady not as good as all the hype

2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

lazarillo This is the last of a series of Italian sex comedies where Gloria Guida portrayed an increasing long-in-the-tooth "liceale" or high school co-ed. This time her character, the ironically named "Angela", is sent away to attend a school where her uncle (Lino Banfi) is principal. As usual she drives all the adolescent and adult males (including blood relatives) into paroxysms of lust before eventually setting her sights on her handsome history teacher. While sex between teachers and under-age students is not quite the hilarious knee-slapper today that it once was, it should be said the Guida never was believable as an actual "liceale" when she started this series four years earlier and she certainly wasn't here when she was pushing 25. The real problem with this movie is that there aren't nearly enough scenes of Guida showering, stripping, etc., and WAY too many scenes of unfunny funny-men Lino Banfi and Alvaro Vitali (who co-starred with GG in all these films) cross-dressing or sitting on the toilet. At least here, they finally gave up trying to pass the practically middle-age Vitali off as a student and made him a music teacher instead (although why any school would hire this incompetent and annoying idiot to teach anything really beggars belief).Lorraine DeSalle also shows up here in an early role. She would go to become a minor cult celebrity after appearing in some of the more appalling Italian cannibal and WIP films directed by the likes of Umberto Lenzi and Bruno Mattei. This is probably her best film (and she has even more nude scenes than Guida), but don't necessarily take that as a recommendation.

pumaye Gloria Guida was probably the finest looking woman in the Italian sexy comedies of the Seventies and she is really the only reason to watch this scholastic comedy, full of the usual insipid gags, almost always with the same cast. Alvaro Vitali is strangely a music professor, not the student, as it is more usual. Banfi is in the same role of the repressed latin male, searching for sex with women far more beautiful than he deserves, but it is still fun to watch, as he was already a very good actor, even if he has reached fame and more decent roles only later in his career