Thursday, 17 April 2008

Barbie-licious

A crazy 70's sub Charlie's Angels, secret-agent mix, The Doll Squad is a colourful cheeseball with poor dialogue, acting, sets and plot. Lots of semi-naked "beauties" with heaving bosoms toting big machine guns, chopping and kicking their way through dozens of men. It tries, but never quite gets to any state of respectability, but is nevertheless good for a chuckle. There is a lot of blood and thunder and quite callous cruelty which surprised me a bit.
Pretty thin James Bond style plot - evil megalomaniac wants to take over the world then spills the beans in time for our heroes to save the day. Wonderfully dodgy special effects (the same explosion is repeatedly shown throughout the film, just coloured differently or flipped around.
The most convincing member of the cast is Tura Satana, mainly due to her martial arts expertise (have I just made that up?), so you get the deal here.

1 comment:

mand said...

Well my sisters told me to check out your blog. One of them said she couldn't understand a word you type and the other said it was very amusing, i will let you guess who said what. It has made me think about watching some of the older ones myself, so you never know you might have a convert on your hands. Keep writing and i will keep trying to understand what you write