Malibu Express (1985)

User Rating:

2.5/10   

Director:

Andy Sidaris

Writer:

Andy Sidaris (writer)

Release Date:

March 1988 (Turkey)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

Packing Heat From Texas To Malibu Beach!

Plot:

Cody Abiliene is a semi-successful private detective desperately in need of a big (and well-paying) case...

Plot Keywords:

Cult Favorite | City Name In Title | Place Name In Title | B Movie | Psychotronic

Cast

Darby Hinton	...	Cody Abilene
Sybil Danning	...	Contessa Luciana
Art Metrano	...	Matthew
Shelley Taylor Morgan	...	Anita Chamberlain
Brett Baxter Clark	...	Shane (as Brett Clark)
Niki Dantine	...	Lady Lillian Chamberlain
Lori Sutton	...	Beverly
Lorraine Michaels	...	Liza Chamberlain
Lynda Wiesmeier	...	June Khnockers
Kimberly McArthur	...	Faye
Barbara Edwards	...	May
Abb Dickson	...	P. L. Buffington
Busty O'Shea	...	Doreen Buffington
Randy Rudy	...	Bobo Buffington
Michael A. Andrews	...	Stuart Chamberlain (as Michael Andrews)

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | USA:R | Singapore:(Banned)

Filming Locations:

Beverly Hills, California, USA

Company:

Andy Sidaris Company

Quotes:

Liza Chamberlain: Did you hear that she got raped this afternoon by two homosexuals? One held her down and the other one did her hair.

Movie Connections:

Followed by Savage Beach (1989)

Soundtrack:

Buffingtons

Not a good start

Although "Malibu Express" is officially the first film in the Andy Sidaris "Bullets, Bombs and Babes" series, it's clear that he still hadn't perfected the formula that would dominate his later work. The film has a male lead, and most of the women are portrayed as nymphos / sex objects. Of course, I know that in an Andy Sidaris film the women have a tendency to remove their clothes at the drop of a hat, but they also have a tendency to shoot people, blow things up, etc. Apart from one scene, of a crackshot policewoman embarrassing the hero who is a lousy shot, there is none of that in "Malibu Express": in other words, there is no empowerment to balance the exploitation. The film is a low-rent cross between James Bond, "Smokey and the Bandit" (country music, hicks and car races) and Agatha Christie (there is a murder in a household and everybody is a suspect). It's really not very good - Sybil Danning's exceptional body is one of the few redeeming virtues - but I guess it's better than "Howling II", where Sybil's body was the only redeeming virtue. (**)