ODDLY COUPLED

Just how odd is Oddly Coupled? It's original title was Betta Betta in the Wall, Who's the Fattest Fish of All? That odd. The vivacious MALTA screws some guy in the front seat of her convertible. Pretty DONNA YOUNG screws some guy on a beach blanket. But Hobart Moore prefers the company of his fish. Say what? Hobart is a shy skinny proto-nerd who is kidnapped by a carload of pretty gals -- Gloria (plain), Didi (airhead), and Sheri (tart) -- and taken to their home as a prospective boyfriend for Gertie. Say who? Gertie is an obese nymphomaniac who doesn't like to be called "Madam" because "it sounds so dirty." Fat-mama Gertie desperately wants Ho-Ho to be amorous, so the gals (including Maisie Day) take turns trying to interest Ho-Ho in the birds and the bees rather than fish. This includes watching home videos of normal people having sex (like USCHI DIGART and JOHNNY ROCCO). Trouble is, the gals prove to be too neurotically wacky to screw -- indeed, in light of Sheri and Didi's behavior in bed, Ho-Ho's preference for fish actually appears perfectly sensible. Moreover, anytime the word "sex" is uttered, Gertie comes charging through the door like a rhino in heat. Obscenely clad in a baby-doll nightie, all 300 pounds of her quavering in slow motion, she launches herself into bed like a dirigible gone amuck. In a final touch of delirium, Oddly Coupled (a.k.a. One More Time) keeps flashing to a hallucinogenic scene shot through a fish tank where some lovely naked woman beckons. Ho-Ho's fantasy? Who knows.