TUBI CONTINUED… BEACH VOLLEYBALL DETECTIVES 2: BOMB AT THE BEACH (2007) ***

The first Beach Volleyball Detectives ended like all great movies do, with our heroes beaten, broken, and licking their wounds from a crushing defeat.  (Okay, so it ended like The Empire Strikes Back.)  This one starts with a ten-minute recap of the original, which is fine by me and/or any likeminded individual who didn’t get enough scenes of sexy bikini-clad Japanese babes playing beach volleyball the first time around.  

This time out, the Beach Volleyball Detectives turn in their badges and go rogue to catch the bad guys.  (Just like in Licence to Kill.)  They eventually learn there is a traitor in their midst who is secretly working for the evil China Volleyball Team.  In order to beat them, our heroines must first face off against the Indian team (who have stretchy limbs like Dhalsim from Street Fighter 2) and the Russians (which is just one girl who can self-replicate).  

Let me get this out of the way before we go any further:  Beach Volleyball Detectives 2:  Bomb at the Beach is not the instant classic the original was.  It's only an hour long, but about half of it is recycled footage from the first movie.  I guess if they wanted to, they could’ve just edited both of them down into one ninety-minute film.  Then again, if they did that, we would’ve been robbed of the original’s great cliffhanger ending.  

While it lacks the non-stop gut-busting humor of the first film, it’s still pretty funny and consistently enjoyable throughout.  It’s basically set in the Rocky 2 mode where everything that happened in the original happens again, except this time the hero wins the rematch.  While that kind of reduces the novelty of the overall enterprise, it still had plenty of scenes of sexy bikini-clad Japanese babes playing beach volleyball to satisfy this discriminating viewer.  I mean, the climactic match features the villainesses serving, setting, and spiking the volleyball with their boobs.  What more do you want from a motion picture?  (If you answered, “Scenes where sexy bikini-clad Japanese babes use magic powers to turn volleyballs into dragons, missiles, and acid rain clouds”, then don’t worry because it has that too.)

AKA:  Beach Volleyball Detectives 2.