Young Love: Lemon Popsicle 7

Year releasted: 1987

by Nathan Rabin
May 9th, 2001

When people think of Israel in the '50s, they generally focus on the growing pains of a conflict-ravaged nation surrounded on all sides by enemies intent on its destruction. But the 1987 romp Young Love: Lemon Popsicle 7 posits an alternate history of that turbulent era in which comically overgrown teens care less about the possible destruction of their homeland than about orchestrating poorly dubbed soft-core shenanigans. Picking up where Lemon Popsicle 6 left off, Young Love follows the raunchy antics of three lovable kids living in what appears to be the peephole capital of Israel. Set in a magical strip of the holy land where the sexual revolution arrived a decade early, the film finds its three oversexed heroes in a bind after they accidentally crash a sports car into a watermelon cart during a week of unsupervised debauchery. Eager to scrounge up money to fix their wheels, they fortuitously land temporary gigs working at a resort where the female clients' sexual tastes tend to run toward comical bunglers with menial jobs in the service industry. But while his pals work their magic on a broad cross-section of scantily clad floozies, one of the buddies attempts to win back an old girlfriend, a pursuit complicated by her greedy parents' attempts to arrange her marriage to a wealthy fop. To prevent this from happening, the trio astutely kidnaps and disrobes the indignant suitor, then attempts to deceive the girls' family with an impostor. Alas, the boys' deception is found out, leading to a standoff in which the girl's parents and the parents of the indignant suitor end up taking fully clothed belly-flops into a pool. While his buddies continue to seduce much of the resort's clientele to some of the 1950s' most cheaply licensed hits, Lemon Popsicle 7's true romantic learns that love and R-rated soft-core antics really do conquer all, ending the penultimate entry in the Lemon Popsicle saga on an appropriately giddy note.