The Amazon folks who loaded the Italian rom-com “Pensati Sexy” on Amazon Prime under the title “Still Fabulous” did this teetering sex farce no favors. None.

The proper translation of the title is “Think Sexy” as this “Think Sexy, Be Sexy.” As the film is the tale of an Italian 30something with low self-esteem, a “wallflower,” at least in her mind, it’s also accurate.

“Still Fabulous” means nothing in itself, and makes it sound like a further reboot of “Absolutely Fabulous,” which it most certainly is not.

It’s a clumsy, never-quite-humorous attempt to show our heroine discovering her “sexy” and learning to work it and to value herself by developing the confidence to “pick yourself” rather waiting for some man — “always the wrong guy” — to pick you.

Diana Del Bufalo of “My Big Gay Italian Wedding” stars as Maddalena, a temp — contract worker — at a quick-and-dirty publishing company. Easy Edizioni specializes in “ghost written” bios of actors, jocks, pop starlets, influencers and others too busy to write their own quick-turn-around autobiographies, which, as the publisher puts it, are sold “at truck stops” all over Europe.

Influencers like one-named beauty Lara (Jenny De Nucci) become their star “authors.” She wants her fans to know “all of the obstacles…brittle fingernails, oily scalp, split-ends are their vapid bread and butter.

Maddalena is the star ghost writer, a wit (barely demonstrated) who can get the flavor of the client, write a hit and in no time flat. Only the boss cannot recall her name and won’t promote her to staff, and the chief editor (Raoul Bova) only recalls her name because he’d like to sleep with her.

Her low self-esteems means that’s exactly what Maddalena agrees to do with the married Donato, only to discover that she’s no good at flirting, seduction or the nuts and bolts of being “sexy” at sex. He tells her so.

Add to that the anxiety of her prettier, more popular, happily married and very pregnant younger sister, their mom’s “favorite,” and Maddalena would seem a prime candidate for therapy.

Or maybe just a bite or two of her gay roomie’s (Fabrizio Colica) hashish-laced cake. That’s what gets her online, sampling porn for “research,” accosted by online sex star Valentina (Valentina Nappi) who sees her as a potential customer.

The screwy logic of dim-witted screenwriters dictates that Maddalena have hash “flashbacks,” that she start hallucinating Valentina, who offers advice about oral sex, about owning your femininity — “All women are beautiful!” — dressing sexier and asserting herself with men and with her bosses.

That’s a simple and workable plot for a formulaic rom-com. It should work. But this meandering, stumbling narrative wanders from attempted self-empowerment to the cliched “going viral” moment to unlikely “better offers,” little of it resonating, almost none of it funny.

Alessandro Tiberi plays the bearded hipster stand-up comic she meets at her sister’s mildly grotesque “gender reveal” party. Leonardo tries to talk Maddalena into taking up stand-up as a way of developing material for her own comical self-help book. He’s Mr. Right, we realize before she does, which is pretty much how the formula works.

Del Bufalo is cute and game, and entirely too reserved in this part to ever be funny. Nappi steals the picture, but even her role is limited and somewhat muzzled. Lurid tongue-licking and various vulgar suggestions are always good for a smirk, if not a wholehearted laugh.

That suggests that the title translation from Italian to English was nothing more than a dispirited compromise. “Pensati Sexy” promises more sex and sexiness than the filmmakers have the nerve to attempt. And “Still Fabulous” suggests laughs and fabulousness that is nowhere to be found.

Rating: 16+, nudity, sexual situations, profanity, drug abuse

Cast: Diana Del Bufalo, Valentina Nappi, Alessandro Tiberi, Raoul Bova, Fabrizio Colica and Jenny De Nucci.

Credits: Directed by Michela Andreozzi, scripted by Michela Andreozzi and Daniela Delle Foglie. An MGM/Amazon release on Amazon Prime

Running time: 1:32