BIGFOOT OR BUST (2022) **

A bunch of busty Bigfoot hunters receive word of numerous Sasquatch sightings in the woods.  They then grab their crossbows and bikini tops and set out into the wilderness to find the mythic monster.  Meanwhile, a trio of busty Bigfoot hunters from the future transport down to Earth to catch the cagey cryptid.  

Jim Wynorski’s Bigfoot or Bust has quite the cast.  We have Rocky DeMarco, Becky LeBeau, Christine Nguyen, Gail Thackray, Cindy Lucas, Debbie Dutch, and Tane McClure, just to name a few.  I think the average age of the actresses in the film is over fifty.  That is in no way a criticism.  If anything, the movie is a rallying cry against ageism and sexism in modern Bigfoot cinema.  Besides, they all look great in their sexy outfits.  Age is just a number.  Kudos to Wynorski for being one of the few directors casting these actresses in these kinds of flicks and letting them still play the kinds of roles they played in the ‘90s instead of relegating them to playing moms (or grandmoms).

Also, thank God for Wynorski for writing lines like, “I heard Bigfoot likes big titties!” and “Bigfoot can sneak up on you while you’re popping a squat!”

At its heart, Bigfoot or Bust is a throwback to old nudie movies like The Beast That Killed Women.  The problem?  There is no nudity!  I don’t know if Jim is going soft on us or what, but this thing could’ve easily been PG.  In lieu of skin, we get lots of scenes of the Scream Queens jiggling and wiggling.  That’s not the worst thing in the world, but the flick might’ve squeaked by with *** if there was some skin to be found.  

Basically, it all boils down to a bunch of scenes of the women on the expedition doing various vaguely naughty things (like pouring water over their bikini-clad bodies) while the Bigfoot watches voyeuristically from the bushes.  Actually, the format is not too different from Wynorski’s Bare Wench movies, except without the shaky-cam stuff.  And nudity, sadly.  In fact, the one bit of accidental nudity is censored when LeBeau gets out of a car, and an on-screen emoji pops up to cover her wardrobe malfunction.

It's not all bad.  There’s a funny Pulp Fiction inspired scene as well as a Sergio Leone-style shootout.  The gag of Wynorski stopping the film because it has too much sex (it doesn’t) is kind of funny and was later recycled in his Giantess Battle Attack!  It’s just that it’s heavily padded with overlong scenes (on-camera interviews, music video sequences, and musical numbers) that might’ve been tolerable had there been a little nudity.  Without it, it just feels like filler.  

The stuff with the space age ladies looking for Sasquatch scat is the biggest problem.  The lame sitcom-style canned laughter in their scenes isn’t funny and many of their gags land with an audible thud.  Things really go downhill when Bigfoot sings a country song.  (Now there’s a sentence I never thought I would type.)  Despite these missteps, it’s hard to completely hate any movie that features a gratuitous scene where the entire cast of busty babes jump up and down in slow motion on a conveniently placed trampoline.