When I first put this on, I thought it was a sequel to director Jim Wynorski and producer Charles Band’s Giantess Battle Attack (which itself was a sequel to Attack of the 50 Foot Camgirl). As it turns out, it’s a sequel to another Band production, Giantess Attack (which I haven’t seen). The opening scene amusingly kept me up to speed on what I missed.
You see, the movie is built around the conceit we are watching the “Sci-Fly Channel” and the host (a Katey Sagal impersonator?!?) is premiering a failed TV pilot from the ‘90s called Giantess Attack. (“It’s part Ultraman, part foot fetish video”.) There’s also a pretty funny spoof of those Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercials before the “show” starts.
Anyway, in the last “episode”, the duo of Giantesses go their separate ways after accidentally destroying Hollywood. Diedre (Tasha Tacosa from Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!) sulks off to her “Fortress of Immeasurable Guilt” while Frida (Rachel Riley) desperately wants her back in action. Meanwhile, an evil alien queen (Christine Nguyen) shrinks and kidnaps a scientist and forces him to create a giant robo-babe (Vlada Fox) to take over the world. Can the Giantesses put their differences aside to save the day?
The first twenty minutes or so held a lot of promise. I mean, when I sat down to watch this, I had no idea I would be in store for a catfight parody of the fight scene from They Live. This sequence is almost worth the price of admission.
However, after that scene (which occurs fairly early on), it’s all downhill from there. I guess it wouldn’t have been so bad if there hadn’t been so much recycled footage from the first movie. There are also too many supporting characters that take away from Tacosa and Riley’s screen time. It’s always fun seeing Nguyen, but she can probably play this sexy evil queen villain role in her sleep by now.
You would think the finale where the two Giantesses team up to battle Mecha-Fembot would be a winner, but it’s a total snooze. If only Wynorksi was at the helm. He could’ve really breathed some life into the Giantess battles. (Not to mention tossed some T & A in there as well.) Oh, and the giant/shrinking effects are some of the worst I have ever seen, and boy, is that ever saying something.
AKA: Giantess Attack 2.
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