Comes to feel like a never-ending nightmare

Are we rushing to clothe the naked emperor by contriving emollient or contrarian explanations for all this? Perhaps. It remains weirdly innocent in its absurdity.

The filmmakers rub our noses in the whole sordid sex thing we love to hate and hate to love, no doubt laughing at us the entire time, all the way to the bank.

It's really, really fun. And it's terrible. But I think part of what makes it so good and what has made it become the camp classic that it is is the fact that everyone is so committed to this movie.