movie review

Mag Wheels was another late 70’s entry into the beach teensploitation comedies that were so prominent then. Anita (Shelly Horner) is the new girl at school. When Steve (John McLauglin) gets one look at the voluptuous transfer, it sets his girlfriend Donna into a tailspin and she’ll stop at nothing to make sure these two never unite. A staple on USA’s Up All Night as Summer School, Mag Wheels is an oddity to say the least. It’s got all of the elements exploitive comedy – fast vans with awesome carpeting, nekkid ladies, rape, revenge, high waist jeans… but what comes together is an unintentionally funny and tragic story of a girl who just wants to belong. It’s also a great staple of 70s California culture with surfers, skaters and the like all whooping it up in the name of grooviness.