You might remember me reviewing The Pink Bikini Gang vs. the Black Cobras a while back. I didn’t have a really good idea what was happening in that one because A) I don’t speak Spanish and B) I had never seen the first Pink Bikini Gang movie, appropriately titled The Pink Bikini Gang. Well, I finally checked it out, and I’m only slightly less confused as before.
Some bad guys are trying to sell a top-secret missile-launching device that looks like an Amazon Kindle in a pink protective slipcase. Their meeting is interrupted by a team of gun-toting dudes in black sunglasses who kill everyone and steal the machine. When all attempts to retrieve the device fails, the government sends in a team of bikini clad babes to use their feminine wiles to stop the bad guys and save the world.
The Pink Bikini Gang looks even cheaper than its sequel. In fact, sometimes, you can see crew members and/or confused bystanders wandering into the shots. It gets off to a strong start as the opening credits sequence features many jiggling butts. However, it bogs down almost immediately as it’s frontloaded with a lot of long, dull dialogue scenes.
The cast is a bit of a mixed bag as anyone who doesn’t wear a bikini doesn’t make much of an impression. I could have done without the girls’ stereotypically gay boss, who kind of acts like a Mexican version of Bosley from Charlie’s Angels. The bad guys mostly look like ex-professional wrestlers (you can tell by their scarred foreheads), although they aren’t really all that memorable. I did like the one villain whose Coke bottle glasses made him look like a cross between Danny Trejo and Burgess Meredith from the “Time Enough at Last” episode of The Twilight Zone.
Like the sequel, the main draw here is the scenes of scantily clad bikini babes. While that flick had plenty of scenes of the titular ladies walking slowly down hallways while brandishing firearms, this one is curiously low on bikini-girls-walking-down-hallways thrills. However, the scene where they unsuccessfully try to holster their guns and resort to shoving them down the backside of their bikini bottoms is almost worth the price of admission.
The sequel was wise to have two sets of women in bikinis going toe to toe to help keep your interest. This one has no such luxuries. That’s right, the villains this time around are just a bunch of boring dudes, Because of that, The Pink Bikini Gang definitely doesn’t have the same level of sex appeal as the sequel. That said, there are some fun moments here, like when our heroines swim in an Olympic-sized pool, beat up ugly dudes who hit on them in bars, put on impromptu bikini fashion shows, and naturally, perform seductive dance routines. I think my favorite moment came when they use poison lipstick to drug the bad guys with tainted kisses.
All this makes for a fitfully amusing time. Too bad that when it should be over, it continues on for another (bikini girl-less) ten minutes. I’ll still give it Two Stars just because I couldn’t understand most of the plot. (Those dialogue scenes certainly drag it down.) Although it’s not up to the standards of the second one, when the girls are front and center, The Pink Bikini Gang is kinda fun.
No comments:
Post a Comment