D.E.B.S. Reviews
It's so spoofy it's difficult to call 'good' or even 'bad'; just say it's smooth.
Is it a satire of stupid movies? Is it just a stupid movie?
Only the world of X-rated movies overlooks such flimsiness of plot, absence of acting talent, cheap special effects, banal dialogue and scantily clad young women.
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| Original Score: 1/4
The most endearing aspect of D.E.B.S., a sweet-spirited spoof, is that the lesbian romance is played for real, with no nudge-nudge wink-wink irony.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
A prime example of a dispiriting trend: movies whose primary point of reference is other movies.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Those who are hoodwinked into leaving home for such deliberate mediocrity may get a sense that the movie's biggest joke is at their expense.
Most of the second half is taken up by the surprisingly sticky, amateurishly acted love story about desperate lovers on opposite sides of the law, and there are long stretches without laughs.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Cute, campy and as proudly insubstantial as its heroines' micro-miniskirts.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The character traits of the D.E.B.S. are only slightly more useful than the color-coded uniforms of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
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Top CriticPlays less like a send-up of Charlie's Angels than one of the endless D-list satires that clogged theaters 40 years ago near the end of the 007-inspired spy cycle.
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| Original Score: 2/4
A heat-free pseudo-lesbian spoof of Charlie's Angels by way of Heathers.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Unexpectedly fresh, thanks mostly to the sweetly exuberant love story at its center.
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| Original Score: 4/5
You might think there's no downside to a movie that peeks up the skirts of babes in micro-minis, but writer-director Angela Robinson's dimwitted satire is libido-killing proof to the contrary.
| Original Score: 1/4
A hideously unfunny spy spoof.
Even if it doesn't add up to a whole lot, the movie is content to tickle you gently more than jab you in the ribs. These days, that's saying a lot. Alas.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Robinson never lets her feature film debut -- expanded from a festival short after drawing raves at Sundance 2003 -- stray too far from its satiric base.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The movie has no wit, no charm, no cleverness, no traction. Simply put, it is no fun.
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| Original Score: F
'Did you go to Dalton?' If you did, and played Buffy beer shots at your safety school, this one's for you.
D.E.B.S. stands for 'Discipline, Energy, Beauty, Strength' -- none of which is remotely detectable in a single frame.
