D.E.B.S. (2005)

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The packaging for "D.E.B.S." makes it look like it's a slam-bang girls with guns movie with plenty of action. In actual fact, it's anything but. Although the movie deals with young and hot-looking women who work for a secret agent organization, there isn't a terrible amount of action. Instead, the movie concentrates more on a lesbian relationship that forms between one of the agents and the bad gal she and her fellow agents are pursuing. Sounds promising, but sadly this aspect of the movie never gets beyond a PG-13 level. As it turns out, no aspect of the remaining portions of the movie are particularly well done. The development of the other characters is very poor, with no other characters really standing out. The poor writing extends to the story as well; the secret agent organization is lacking detail, and there are some incomprehensible moments like how the female villain gets away when she's cornered two-thirds into the movie. It certainly doesn't help that the entire package is surprisingly shoddy, from the film crew being seen in reflections on windows to some absolutely awful special effects. In fact, the whole movie looks and feels like a low budget children's TV show like "Power Rangers Dino Charge". You'd be better off watching an episode of that show instead of this movie, since although the show is just as dumb as this movie, it at least offers some good action (and any episode only runs 30 minutes instead of being feature length.) To sum up, it's very easy to see why this movie was barely released to theaters.

I think this movie is good, but apparently there is no martial arts fighting action added to the movie. Why not have Lucy Diamond beaten up by the DEBS and let her die? I think the ending should be different and not have Amy go with Lucy Diamond to Spain. Unless it can be done in the sequel then I much rather see Lucy Diamond dead by the DEBS. Why not have Jennifer Garner play Janet because she does martial arts in her television show Alias? Devon Aoki does not make a good Dominique because she is not French accent. Try Eva Green or Sophia Marceau because they are French and they make a wonderful Dominique. Well I hope they make DEBS 2, and this time Lucy Diamond must die by the DEBS. Well I hope there will be no cigarette smoking in the sequel.

First of all, this movie is hilarious. It made me laugh and smile a lot of times. And it also made me think and reflect about some things. It's sincere, has a true plot about love behind, and I really liked the relation between Lucy and Amy, since the first moment they looked into their eyes, you can tell how love flooded them, and I thought that was a sweet and funny scene, the first encounter, and it "made me cry" when they just met again the same way in the last scene.This also shows the stereotype of forbidden love. NOT because they were both women (which i think was even better, it shows that is not wrong to love someone of your same sex, and it reflected a true and sweet love), 'cause they were supposed to be foes. But, as a good love story, it ended well, and i was glad about it. I just wanted to give a little opinion here, I feel like i have too many things to say, but i just don't know how. I just know that I totally loved this movie. One of my favorites; a good comedy, and an excellent love story. Worth seeing. For me it was superb, with good acting, specially Jordana Brewster, she did a good job. She took the "evilness" to another level, and showed how a "villian" can love passionately.

I expected D.E.B.S. (2004) to be a really silly parody of spy movies and teen flicks with tons of references to pop culture, kind of like the NAKED GUN films. Surprisingly, it is really kind of neither, although it leans a bit more on the "teen" side with situations reminiscent of what one would see in teen-oriented movies, like teen angst, peer pressure, popularity, and cliques. The squad of spy girls in the film are obviously not teenagers (I mean in real life), and I guess it shouldn't matter since that is just a cover and they only interact within the girls at the D.E.B.S. school and with their superiors. Yet it is kind of distracting as I expected these girls to at least remind me of teenagers; they all seemed a bit too adult for me to believe they were real teens; they were just 20-somethings (a couple looked closer to 30!) dressed in schoolgirl outfits. Also, the spy angle is underplayed as well, with only slight scenes of fake-looking guns, CGI gadgetry, and the typical "chief-relaying-orders-to-agents" moments early on. What D.E.B.S. really is...is a love story! And a very well done one at that.The love story is between the main characters, D.E.B. Amy (played by the beautiful and refreshing Sara Foster) and world-class criminal Lucy (the stunningly gorgeous and hot Jordana Brewster). What I like about the lesbian love story is that it is done very tastefully and sincerely, with genuine sparks and chemistry between Foster and Brewster. It could have easily been portrayed as just a lustfest between 2 such stunning beauties, but it was not. It was really sweet and charming.But that's the problem. The love story was so good, and the parody so poor that they felt like they should have just been 2 different movies. It actually does TRY to be a parody with some fairly humorous moments sprinkled throughout it's running time, but the parody overall was very flat and so underdone that it all just seemed uneasy. While the love story was interesting, the "professions" of the lead characters didn't ring true for me. Lucy didn't come across as being a criminal mastermind or deadly and Amy didn't really show any signs that she was a soon-to-be top notch secret agent. They just seemed like two regular women that were into each other. Their conversations were definitely intriguing and well-written, but they should have been in an entirely different movie.The supporting cast is a mixed bag. Jill Ritchie (as D.E.B Janet) pretty much steals the movie playing the (supposedly) not-so-bright girl hiding Amy's secret and I found her to actually rise above the material and deliver a knockout comedic performance. Jimmi Simpson is underused and funny also as Lucy's right-hand man Scud, and the ever-reliable Holland Taylor comes through as D.E.B. commandant Ms. Petrie, showing the young girls how a pro does it. The weakest links acting-wise for me were Meagan Good (as D.E.B. squad leader Max) and Devon Aoki (as thick-accented, hard-to-understand D.E.B. Dominique). Good was extremely wooden and rather unconvincing as the "smart" D.E.B. and Aoki was just annoying to listen to and treated as simply a "sex addict". And their characters really needed to be better and more fleshed out to help this film be better.A lot of reviews have compared this to CHARLIE'S ANGELS, maybe on the surface, but it reminded me more of movies like CLUELESS and MEAN GIRLS, without the wit and bite of those classic modern teen films. The "spy" parts, such as they are, just feel thrown in to make the movie seem like a riff on spy movies, but it doesn't have the feeling of a "spy" flick at all. It could just as easily be a teen romantic drama. The love story is daring and excellently done, but that's about it.