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So this is what happened to Judy Jetson's career when she grew up... It's a silly sci-fi fantasy, but as usual Pyun sets up a fun universe for our characters to play around in. Seeing a hair-metal girl group rock around the cosmos, while fighting an evil empire, how can you not have fun?!
Rated 3.5/5 Stars •
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
11/29/21
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Silly futuristic rocks-and-roll sci-fi tale about an all-girl band who gets their big break, except that their lead singer dies, so they must rush in a replacement (named Judy Jetson) so they can get to their big gig across the galaxy. I do count myself as a fan of director Albert Pyun, who can usually be counted on to make entertaining, though never brilliant, low budget genre pictures (i.e. "Nemesis" or "Cyborg" or "Radioactive Dreams"). However, this one is was a bit of a disappointment. I had hopes for this film, but it ended up being a rather dull story with not a lot of action or clever moments and some rather bland music. I did nostalgically enjoy the 80s costumes, hair and music, but the film itself lacked interesting characters or really any kind of interesting story elements. A swing and a miss for Pyun this time around.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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once I got past the hair I started to get compelled but then nothing happened for the longest time. it left me underwhelmed overall because of the bickering. it was missing something, there needed to be some comic relief or something.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/25/23
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The movie seems kind of confusing for a while, having a difficult time understanding what's going on, until you realize you're only confused because absolutely nothing is going on. The large portion of this movie are girls sitting around a crashed space ship doing nothing. There's the most basic thin plot imaginable, and there are no real characters. The poster art is more entertaining than this movie and gives the wrong impression of this movie. Outside of maybe some catchy 80s-riffic rock songs, there's nothing to enjoy. Avoid it.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/25/23
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If you enjoy commenting on every terrible sci-fi/horror movie like you're a robot on Mystery Science Theater 3000, Vicious Lips is a must see.
The first scene puts you in some sort of badly lit office where a woman that closely resembles Mugatu from Zoolander uses mind control to make a man shoot himself. Normally I would warn squeamish audience members to look away, but I wouldn't want them to miss the hilarity of the whole situation. The man puts a big gaudy revolver to his head and when he pulls the trigger, the gun makes an outrageous laser gun sound. After seeing that, I knew I was in for quite a treat.
The next scenes introduce a Phil Collins (circa 1985) look-alike that is the manager to an all female band called Vicious Lips. The lead singer abruptly gets hit by a car or gets in a car crash (all you see is her walk away and then a car crash sound), so the manager has to find a new lead singer. He naturally goes to a high school talent show and picks up some girl that sings like RuPaul after too many tequila sunrises. He takes her to meet the band, and then about 2 minutes later, Vicious Lips plays a show with their new front woman. If you really love 80's new wave, you'll enjoy the performance scenes because they play the ENTIRE 3 minute song. This being the future, though, they play future guitars that look like cardboard and bug zappers.
The woman from the first scene (Mugatu's ugly twin sister) calls the Manager and proposes a record deal, but they have to be on her planet/ship soon. The Manager whisks the girls away to a spaceship hangar to steal a spaceship so they can make their appointment, and it shows 3 people talking about how one of the ships has a serial killer onboard that's killed over "3,000 women" or however many it was, and that he was secure unless they crashed. You can guess what happens next: They steal the ship with the serial killer, play another song, and then crash. The rest of the movie is just one big sci-fi pile of meaningless cut shots, events that are never made relevant, and yes, more songs.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/16/23
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A fun little 80s kitsch adventure, but it get stuck about 30 minutes in and never really holds up to the promie of being as wild and fun at the opening.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/22/23
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