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Purely Joyful Movie!

Pretty Good

Overrated

Just what I expected

No, I don't have it on DVD. I suppose nobody does, unless it's a homemade transfer. Currently watching initially bad quality in-parts download. Hot-bodied but ultimately boring girls with boring hairstyles. Inane attempt that could of course be enjoyed if you were the lucky one filming it.I only know about this movie because I obtained a mini-sized poster of it during the Eighties. Here it was released as THE BIKINI SHOP, with a very sexy, very classy hot-yet-cool, very cute poster. It is not the image you see here. No, it was a gorgeous aerial shot, the beach seen from low-flying seagull's view, you see nine figures stretched out on their beach blankets on the sand, three in the top row (legs only), three in the middle row (two extremely gorgeous blondes flanking the main character, who wears a full business suit, attache case and all) and three in the bottom row (upper bodies only) Believe me, this poster is a lot more fun than the (at times) ineptly- constructed movie itself.Acting? What acting? Likable characters? Blah. Somebody to root for? Blah. I really couldn't care less. Okay, to be fair, it improves along the way. Sparks of interest. There is no denying that this is not even nearly a B-movie, it's kinda an F.I am all for pretty bikini girls in movies. But showing a busload of headless, legless bikini-clad torsos just do not cut it for me. There is no connection without a face. Well, that's how the movie starts off. It is gonna get marginally better, but only by an anorexic slice. There's this little guy who has inherited a bikini shop from his deceased aunt, and the little bloke is off to California. Guy looks just like a Chihuahua. And he is about to be married to a heiress who bought a wedding dress two sizes too small to give her incentive to make a success of that strict diet, starting tomorrow, because there are all those cupcakes out there in the world... She does serve to hold the plot together, because she is such a disgusting character she makes all the other screw-ups look positively charming, and "the sparks of interest" made me "root" for the heroes (aarggg) after all...(Movie is so bad you just gotta see it to believe it, then you will understand where this uneven review comes from)Bruce Greenwood is so off-putting that his slob performance, while quite convincing, just nails the spikes into the coffin I MEAN ARRRGGGHH! no mood left for watching anything vaguely stimulating after seeing that guy bum about on-screen.Movie seems to be set to plod along without an actual heroine. Major mistake. The girls all appear to be walk-ons. By the time when Lady Love appears, my mind had already written off the movie as not only the junk it set out to be from the start, but utter trash. So she appears way too late to add any real meaning or be a life-raft for the sunken ship. At least she is something. She's kinda cute (and quite hot) (and very supple), she has the kind of class the movie JUST DOESN'T. But there's no real story, or rather, there could have been, but they settle for a mediocre thin plot. It's an excuse to film bikini-bodies. As such, the "story" will appeal to schoolboys and, well, guys like me, BUT the dudes who made this, skated about on very thin ice, only a few steps away from total laughing stocks. The music video bikini talent inserts do help to, er, raise interest. They really do, saving this, let's face it, JUNK, from being total TRASH, by being testimony to red-blooded man's obsession with the female form, trying so very, very hard to produce something worthwhile...Seen in such a regard, the movie could go into a time capsule.Who the hell am I to judge? Hell, I'd have been standing there with the video camera, too hell with the plot, the script... :)

Before internet, before everyone started screaming; racism, sexism, offensive this and that, and before everybody had a bug up their A** There were skins flicks as we used to call them when I was a kid in the 80s. Next to the beach, this was the best way to watch girls in different states of nudity. Now these films might not be Oscar material, but to us kids in the 80s it was heaven. Don't get me wrong hardly any of them, if any, have any greater plot than to show good looking half naked girls,and maybe give a few good laughs while they do so. But if you are expecting a movie like this to have any other purpose than nudity and good looking girls,you have parked your but in front of the wrong movie. I give this 5 star. For the memory alone

You probably know what you are getting if you decide to see this one. It's another mid-80's teen sex comedy with a silly plot, bad acting, ridiculous situations, and gratuitous nudity. If you grew up during this era, the music and fashion will take you back. Two brothers inherit a bikini shop. Todd is the laid-back party dude who wants to keep the shop and let the good times roll. The other brother is a straight-laced finance major who just wants to sell it and get back to his career. Eventually they join forces to save the store and presumably grow old together in the Malibu sun. Some of the positives of this movie: I really felt like the characters were having fun, and it looked like it would be a nice place to hang out (and I already live in southwest Florida). Also, the simplistic story drew me in enough that I was happy for the business-minded brother when he finally dumped his sexist caricature of a finance and got with the sweet, gentle bikini sales girl. It's all very predictable and not really much to look at (nobody looks good with 80's hair), but as I said, if you enjoy movies like Private Resort, Revenge of the Nerds, and Porkys, you won't really care.

This film most definitely belongs in the so-bad-it's-almost-good category. Very much a product of its time (1985), the hairstyles, fashions and soundtrack songs are hysterical to those of us who were fortunate (?!) enough to grow up in the 80s. There are embarrassing dance sequences, bikinis that are testament to the aerobics craze - and of course there's lots of flesh on display. Hmmm, must be a guy thing... Bruce Greenwood is the only actor in the cast who has moved on to bigger and better things - I bet a clip of this will come to haunt him one day on The Tonight Show!