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9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
"Freeze Mother ****ers!", 26 Oct 2003
Ever watched McG's Charlie's Angels movies? Ever been astonished at how little concern the films have for narrative, logic and plausibility, and how they serve only to provide feminine eye candy immersed in excessive visual gloss and ludicrously crude and childish humour? Ever suspected that 'post-modern' film making surely couldn't get much more shallow?You ain't seen nothing yet. First off, to call Bikini Bandits a 'film' is a stretch at best. At barely 50 minutes, you could hardly call it feature length. And it doesn't exactly tell much of a story; what little plot that exists is interrupted at alarming regularity by utterly irrelevant animations, music promo-style visuals and spoof commercials. Added to which, it is clear from the first minute that the whole excercise is little more than an extended advertisment for a certain company of some description (watch it and it's abundantly clear who, even if you've never heard of it before). In short - this is MTV filmmaking writ large, deliberately low brow, neural overstimulation for short attention spans, spawned by an overactive media student brain, unclear whether its intent is merely to titilate or satirise, or both... Of course, the above need not be taken as critcism. Depending on your point of view, this could be either the funniest, most entertaining film ever, or the the stupidest load of garbage ever made. And there's a lot of truth in both points of view. On first viewing, I was by equal measure irritated, amused, frustrated and delighted. But I can honestly say I was never bored. And before anyone starts thinking that a 50 minute film doesn't justify the price of a DVD, there's a ton of extras on there, including music videos, trailers, loads of behind the scenes stuff and, of most interest, the original internet-broadcast short films that started it all(although it won't take an eagle eye to notice how much of material from these shorts is directly lifted by the film...) All of which may be of no interest whatsoever, if you don't care for girls in bikinis with guns, and ugly men performing grotesque and potentially offensive carictures in what resembles a live action version of South Park crossed with 70's bad girl exploitation. Well... I know which side of the fence I'm sitting on.
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