Baberellas (2003)

Excellent film with a gripping story!

The first must-see film of the year.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

My wife gave this a "2," but I gave it 3 bonus points for a total of 5. One of the bonus points was for Michael Spezaly's body-paint work on the aliens for the blacklight scene (a person could say the "nude actresses" playing the aliens, but I suspend my disbelief for fiction movies, and find it presumptuous to assume 1)aliens naturally wear clothes, and B)are female just because they sport something akin to double-D kazongers on their upper torsos). The other two bonus points are for the 3-minute, 48-second "Swimming Pool" music video from "Hydraulic Clown Heads" as a DVD extra, which provides the underwater half of the movie's pool scene.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* I bought this DVD. Well, here's some proof that I may be watching too many B grade flicks. "Baberellas" starts off with a song called "Kiss my Galaxy". This was the same annoying song used in "Busty Cops" although I misidentified it as "Love my Galaxy". The same questions still apply. How does one kiss a galaxy? More importantly, why hasn't this song been blasted into oblivion? Anyway, "Baberellas" does have one good thing going for it and that one good thing is Julie Smith. She's wearing corn rows in this adventure, which is not a favorite hairstyle of mine, but it works on her. She and her topless band are being watched by space aliens for some sort of galactic TV show. The Smith band wanders around Southern California and then find their way to the spaceship. More topless adventures follow."Baberellas" has one fatal flaw: There is no sex in this "sexy spoof". They couldn't give us one sex scene in this "sexy spoof"? Not one? What's the matter? Was it too sexy for them? Oh sure, there are plenty of topless scenes but no doing the dirty. Smith even said she got turned on when someone touched her breasts. (Homer Simpson voice): "Hello?! Hello Einstein?!" Overall, "Baberellas" is a disappointment. Julie Smith tried to save the day but failed. The tractor beam from Planet Frigid was too powerful. Crash landing! All B-queens for themselves!

When one rents a movie like Baberellas, theres only one reason for doing so...the girls. This movie has plenty of them and they are nice to look at, but that is the only good thing about this movie.If I had to sum it up in one word it would be--ANNOYING. The "plot" has something to do with an alien needing sexual energy and so she captures it from these women on Earth. To tell you the truth I didnt get much of the plot because I started fast forwarding after 5 minutes. The special effects are the funniest part of this "comedy." The computer graphics look like they came out of a computer game circa 1992. Totally pathetic. And whenever there are scenes of nudity they arent full screen, theyre in some weird "space monitor" so its only about half the screen big. Which makes viewing this movie EXTREMELY (I wish I could type that "extremely" in 50 foot letters) frustrating. The only reason I rented this was to see the beautiful Julie K Smith. Shes looks amazing in this and so I guess I got what I wanted..........kinda.

Schlock as some would call it, sexploitation by others, b-movies, by others still. Babarellas pays close heed to its predecessors of sexual kitzch, providing what every staple in this genre must have. Campy special effects, a laughable plot, and amazingly beautful women. Movies like these are often misrepresented as soft-core pornography or low-grade science fiction, they are in fact far from both. The movie is ment to lightly entertain and create interest and is perfect for filling in ambient space for: house parties, night clubs, and bars. In otherwords it is simply entertainment in its cleanest form, unburdened with morals, messages, or motives, other than to put a smile on your face. Babarellas does exactly that. Imagine if you will: you and your date are arriving at your favorite local pub, where you proceed to sit down at the bar and order a beer. Staring straight ahead you look up to the tv and witness on screen a gorgeous woman wearing what looks like a metal raygun bra, in which she grapples with pleasure as a massive lazer shoots out from her chest across the horizon, and completely annihilating a whole mountain range. It's the kind of thing you can't help but smile at; your date sees it and though being insulted, by it laughs despite herself. That's entertainment!