Made for 10,000-plus peanuts and trying to make the leap from expensive home movie to releasable feature, "Lipgloss Explosion" does not make it. Shot on digital video with a defiantly amateurish quality to the writing, acting and production values, this sci-fi comedy is so much flotsam in the ocean of cinema.
Opening for a short gig as a weekend midnight show at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in West Hollywood, "Lipgloss" was written, produced and directed by Chris Morrissey ("Superstar Female Serial Killer"). It tries to be an homage to B movies that is so stinking bad you can't stop laughing.
But godawful is about all "Lipgloss" can muster, as the humor is strictly for inebriated teeny punkers, and the anti-Hollywood attitude gives rise to pathetic attempts by any standards to entertain a paying audience. On the other hand, if the idea was to antagonize the viewer with a juvenile plot about chunky, ditzy Los Angeles party girls getting zapped by a scantily attired robot (Theresa Trapp) under the control of a twisted character (Vickie Velvet) left over from Morrissey's first film, "Lipgloss" gets the job done.
What moments that approach campy fun are usually helped along by performers like Share Fantasia and Elizabeth Young as bird-brained characters aware they are in danger but in no great hurry to solve the film's central mystery. By the end, "Lipgloss" possibly breaks the record for the use of the word "bitch" in one film and proves again that bad movies -- when so many stinkers of all sizes and shapes come cresting off the ocean each year -- are almost never a laughing matter.
LIPGLOSS EXPLOSION
Chris Morrissey Films
Writer-produer-director: Chris Morrissey
Executive producer: Joel Lopez
Editor: Vickie Velvet
Music: Space Babies
Color/stereo
Cast: Share Fantasia, Vickie Velvet, Johnny Diaz Reyes, Elizabeth Young, Theresa Trapp
Running time -- 106 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Opening for a short gig as a weekend midnight show at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in West Hollywood, "Lipgloss" was written, produced and directed by Chris Morrissey ("Superstar Female Serial Killer"). It tries to be an homage to B movies that is so stinking bad you can't stop laughing.
But godawful is about all "Lipgloss" can muster, as the humor is strictly for inebriated teeny punkers, and the anti-Hollywood attitude gives rise to pathetic attempts by any standards to entertain a paying audience. On the other hand, if the idea was to antagonize the viewer with a juvenile plot about chunky, ditzy Los Angeles party girls getting zapped by a scantily attired robot (Theresa Trapp) under the control of a twisted character (Vickie Velvet) left over from Morrissey's first film, "Lipgloss" gets the job done.
What moments that approach campy fun are usually helped along by performers like Share Fantasia and Elizabeth Young as bird-brained characters aware they are in danger but in no great hurry to solve the film's central mystery. By the end, "Lipgloss" possibly breaks the record for the use of the word "bitch" in one film and proves again that bad movies -- when so many stinkers of all sizes and shapes come cresting off the ocean each year -- are almost never a laughing matter.
LIPGLOSS EXPLOSION
Chris Morrissey Films
Writer-produer-director: Chris Morrissey
Executive producer: Joel Lopez
Editor: Vickie Velvet
Music: Space Babies
Color/stereo
Cast: Share Fantasia, Vickie Velvet, Johnny Diaz Reyes, Elizabeth Young, Theresa Trapp
Running time -- 106 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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