Bikini Bloodbath Carwash (2008) - By Duane L. Martin

Film Reviews: Bikini Bloodbath Carwash (2008) - By Duane L. Martin
Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 @ 16:26:12 Mountain Standard Time by Duane

A while back I reviewed the first film in this series called Bikini Bloodbath. It was about a crazy chef who was going around randomly killing people for no apparent reason. It was full of beautiful, yet annoying girls and a variety of stupid guys who were just ripe for the killing. Still, it got a bad review for lack of real content, lack of content that made any sense, and a variety of other issues.

This film finds the people from the first one somehow magically alive again, and the crazy chef, who was killed in the first one and had now risen as a zombie to kill again, is back and looking for a fresh batch of victims. So how does it stack up to the original? Well...

While this film is better in some ways and more polished, it's really just more of the same. A bunch of hot girls, stupid guys, a crazy chef, Debbie Rochon back as the crude lesbian teacher who's now running the bikini car wash...basically, more of the same with a car wash thrown in.

So you might ask yourself, what's wrong with hot girls (who are sometimes topless) washing cars in bikinis? Sounds pretty hot! Well, yeah, you'd think so. The problem is, while the girls are all beautiful, especially the lead character's friend Sharon who was just smokin' hot (even though they had this running joke of everyone telling her she was fat, which she wasn't in the least...hence the stupidity of the joke), there was just a limited amount of real content here. The carwash scenes were overly long and tedious (the fast forward button is your friend with these), the characters weren't all that interesting, and the chef running around killing everyone was all the same stuff that was done in the first film. Even Debbie Rochon, who has done great work in various films, is stuck with an annoying character in this one that you'll keep hoping will end up at the top of the chef's menu. I did chide them for giving her such a small, short lived role in the first one though, and in this one she actually survived until the end of the film. I'm not sure if that was a good thing or not. Not because of her personally (her performance was just fine), but because it's just a rather annoying character. Her character would be better suited to a women's prison movie in my opinion.

Technically the film was mostly well done. The lighting and sound were generally good, though there were some scenes that could have been lit better for visual quality. Everything could be seen and heard just fine. The editing was good technically, but when it came down to editing out agonizingly long scenes of nothing (like the car wash scenes), it could have used some work. The camera work was mostly good as well, though some of the scenes were somewhat grainy from low light noise. This is simply a side effect of shooting on digital video and why I said the lighting could have been a bit better in those scenes to have hopefully avoided that. Generally though, this isn't a problem in the film. It's mostly in a few isolated shots. The music used in this film came from a band called White Lion, which is the same band that did the music was good, though often inappropriate for the film. It was all 80's-90's style hair metal type music, which while generally good in and of itself, just didn't fit when placed throughout a film that didn't need so much of it.

I guess what it comes down to is, is this movie enjoyable? Well, I don't want to say I hated it because I absolutely didn't. Believe me, I've seen films that actually made me hate them, and this wasn't one of them. I guess it would be more accurate to say I feel rather neutral about it. It was ok, and it did have its moments of humor that I rather enjoyed, and you can't ever say that seeing a whole bunch of unbelievably hot girls in a film is ever a bad thing. I just want to pound one point home to the filmmakers here. CONTENT! We don't need extended scenes of nothing. We want content! We want to see more than just the chef randomly killing people. Put it in context and show some scenes of the back story explaining why he's doing it. Put in some scenes showing what he's doing with the body parts. There was potential for a whole Blood Feast kind of a thing to happen here and it just didn't. The characters are all so paper thin you can see through them. Develop the characters better and put some real meat in the story so the viewers have something to really grab on to. There's so much potential here to make something great and so far it's been wasted. I really want to see this series develop into something that years down the road people will still be pulling off their DVD shelves at parties to watch it with their friends. It has that potential but it just hasn't been realized yet. This film was better than the first, but I really hope that the future films in the series will focus more on story and characterization and less on extended scenes of pointless T&A.

If you'd like to find out more about this film, you can check out the Blood Bath Pictures MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/bloodbathpictures. The film is also available on Amazon.com.