The film that showed Meyer to have the most dynamic editing style in American cinema, and took him from nudie king to national monument via the most outrageous exploitation of bosom buddydom ever.
80
TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
What really makes Vixen work is the performance of Erica Gavin in the title role. Equally popular with both male and female viewers, Vixen is a take-charge woman who gets what she wants. She's something rare in American movies, a woman in whom strong sexuality isn't paired with evil or some other major character weakness.
75
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Russ Meyer's 1968 skin-flick is a hilarious, stylistically adroit compendium of middle-American preoccupations: breasts, fishing, anticommunism.
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Vixen is the best film to date in that uniquely American genre, the skin-flick.
75
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
By today's standards the sexuality is fairly discreet, the color cinematography is brilliant and the sense of absurdity marks this as one of Meyer's bust, er, best, efforts. [22 Oct 2004, p.39]
Russ Meyer’s film is another of his technically polished sexplicit dramas, this time free of physical violence and brutality, and hyped with some awkwardly developed draft-dodging and patriotism angles.
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
New York Magazine (Vulture)
There's a wild enthusiasm to the heroine's activities and a deadpan stupidity to the dialogue that provide a redeeming entertainment value for non-up-tight adults. [26 May 1969, p.55]