This movie is essentially about a television game show called "Bikini Showdown" which offers a prize of $10,000 and the guarantee of a role in a movie to whichever beauty contestant can win an assortment of games intended to exhibit as much female flesh as possible while at the same time providing some comic relief in the process. Needless to say, beauty pageant winners from all around flock to Los Angeles to participate. Naturally, each of them has personal reasons for attending--with one particular contestant named "Kelly Johnson" (Kathy Pasmore) garnering the most sympathy from her fellow competitors. But in any case, the show must go on and each of them compete to their fullest. Now since this movie incorporates so much of the game show, by extension it inherits both the good and the bad attributes from it as well. That said, what this movie essentially offers is several sexy actresses wearing next to nothing with Barbara Ann Moore (as "Mary Johnson"), Anastasia Rova ("Susan Mikka") and Karli Allen ("Gina Roberts") being the most attractive in my opinion. So far so good. On the flip side, however, the so-called "comic relief" was extremely lacking and that greatly affected the movie in general. Throw in an extremely rudimentary script along with a very dull plot and it soon becomes apparent that the obvious liabilities clearly outweigh the assets by a large measure. In short, this movie features several beautiful women in bikinis but that is essentially all it has going for it. Accordingly, I have given one point each for the three sexy actresses mentioned earlier and will leave it at that. Below average.
3 Reviews
cute cast, not so wild
babeulous5 June 2001
More pretty women than a typical bikini movie. Barbara Moore was a doll as the innocent country girl. It's a shame Kathy Pasmore hasn't gotten more work, she's got a lot of what makes Lisa Comshaw so hot.
The MPAA item is misleading. The nudity is almost all topless women, and it's mostly dressing room scenes, no sexuality to it. The one short sex scene is so demure it hardly counts. Had the women worn pasties and a couple of words been bleeped out this picture might have qualified for an MPAA PG rating. But then it would have had no commercial value. Folks who were hoping for a Bikini Carwash Company 3 will be disappointed.
The "It's only plastic" show within a show makes a valid social comment, but clumsily. I don't mind movies that preach (and "bikini" comedies usually do) but they should try to be more subtle about it.
The MPAA item is misleading. The nudity is almost all topless women, and it's mostly dressing room scenes, no sexuality to it. The one short sex scene is so demure it hardly counts. Had the women worn pasties and a couple of words been bleeped out this picture might have qualified for an MPAA PG rating. But then it would have had no commercial value. Folks who were hoping for a Bikini Carwash Company 3 will be disappointed.
The "It's only plastic" show within a show makes a valid social comment, but clumsily. I don't mind movies that preach (and "bikini" comedies usually do) but they should try to be more subtle about it.
Wild man wild
BandSAboutMovies9 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Directed by Jason Williams, who played Flesh Gordon, this has The Ultramatics playing while in one long cut women spray whipped cream all over their breasts and play other supposedly sexy games with one another and look, it was the 90s, you know?
Let's just discuss the cast.
Mary Johnson is played by Barbara Moore, who the Playboy 1992 Playmate of the Month, as well as a National Pro-Am dancing championship with dance partner Igor Suvorov and an NDCA Ballroom Dance instructor. Her sister in the movie, Kelly, is played by Kathy Pasmore who was in Takin' It Off Out West. Shauna O'Brien may be the best known of the contestants. She was Lady Chatterley in Lady Chatterley's Stories and was also Penthouse Pet of the Month in January 1992. If you watched a direct to VHS mature and not adult movie, you probably saw her in it.
Behind the camera, writer Gregory Poirier also scripted National Treasure: Book of Secrets, The Lion King II and the Jackie Chan movie The Spy Next Door. Yes, really. An even loftier career was found by executive producer Bob Murawski, who edited The Hurt Locker, Spider-Man and oh yeah, co-founded Grindhouse Releasing. As for this film's editor, it was Paul Hart, who also edited Nude Bowling Part, a movie many in the crew worked on, as well as editing Gone With the Pope.
That said - this isn't good unless you're a teenager watching USA Up All Night.
Let's just discuss the cast.
Mary Johnson is played by Barbara Moore, who the Playboy 1992 Playmate of the Month, as well as a National Pro-Am dancing championship with dance partner Igor Suvorov and an NDCA Ballroom Dance instructor. Her sister in the movie, Kelly, is played by Kathy Pasmore who was in Takin' It Off Out West. Shauna O'Brien may be the best known of the contestants. She was Lady Chatterley in Lady Chatterley's Stories and was also Penthouse Pet of the Month in January 1992. If you watched a direct to VHS mature and not adult movie, you probably saw her in it.
Behind the camera, writer Gregory Poirier also scripted National Treasure: Book of Secrets, The Lion King II and the Jackie Chan movie The Spy Next Door. Yes, really. An even loftier career was found by executive producer Bob Murawski, who edited The Hurt Locker, Spider-Man and oh yeah, co-founded Grindhouse Releasing. As for this film's editor, it was Paul Hart, who also edited Nude Bowling Part, a movie many in the crew worked on, as well as editing Gone With the Pope.
That said - this isn't good unless you're a teenager watching USA Up All Night.
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