Beach Babes from Beyond |
  • USA • 1993 • 75m •   • Directed by: David DeCoteau. • Starring: Joe Estevez, Don Swayze, Joey Travolta, Burt Ward, Jackie Stallone, Linnea Quigley, Sarah Bellomo, Tamara Landry, Nicole Posey, Michael Todd Davis, Ken Steadman, Michael Roddy, Albert Andrukaitis. • Music by: Reg Powell.      An intergalactic babe borrows her dad's T-bird ship to do a little planet hopping with her two friends, but they run out of fuel unexpectedly, and must land on earth. They land on the California coast and run into some guys, where they have fun and a few close encounters at the beach. One of the guys' Uncle Bud, who just wants to meditate and hang out, is being threatened with condemnation of his beach house unless he puts some money into repairs. The alien babes offer to enter the bikini contest with their way-out designs to try and win the money he needs, but they are hampered by the garment designer who will stop at nothing to win.
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Enjoying massive success with his Full Moon production company, Charles Band decided to create two off-shoots in order to reach a wider audience – Moonbeam, (which specialised in children's entertainment) & Torchlight, which dealt with softcore erotica. Torchlight put out only three films before it went belly up due to a collapsed deal with Paramount. Of the three titles, Beach Babes from Beyond was the first.
Beach Babes from Beyond is, when you come down to it, a rather spectacularly flimsy piece of bubblegum science fiction that won't do anything to add to the genre. The film's most notable claim to fame is that it features a lot of stunt casting – everyone from John Travolta's brother Joey (who plays a spaced-out former NASA scientist running a vegetarian food stand on the beach whose skills will come in handy for the heroine's needs); Joe Estevez (brother of Martin Sheen) as the hippie host for the young lovers; Burt Ward (the now middle-aged Robin from that 1960s Batman TV series) as the host of the bikini design competition & in the most eyebrow-raising roles of Xena's parents, Don Swayze & Jacqueline Stallone (mother of Sylvester), where they play with a wanton disregard for seriousness – they even joke about the forty-year gap between their ages. This is so utterly ridiculous that you'll be laughing your head off AT them to the film's detriment.
Besides the stunt casting & minimal genre element, the film features a LOT of endless filler shots of beach goers partying on the beach, something that takes a lot of the film's running time & does nothing to move the film. If nothing else, the film delivers on its title promise – alien beach babes.
How's the softcore, you ask? Well, the sex scenes depicted here are handled in such a way that you want to kill the editor since the lovemaking is given disjointed shots that rob them of much erotic charge. They also fail to entertain. As a softcore 'comedy' it fails & fares even poorly as science fiction.
Review by DigitalRevenantX7 from the Internet Movie Database.
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