Overrated

Good start, but then it gets ruined

I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

This movie begins with a young man from Iowa named "Jack" (Joe Dusic) wandering around on a California beach looking for his uncle's car wash. He eventually finds the place and takes over the business while "Uncle Elmer" (Patrick Wright) goes to a medical clinic to treat his allergies. However, he has no head for business and soon comes to the realization that the business is about to go broke unless something happens soon. Fortunately, a young woman he recently met on the beach named "Melissa" (Kristi Ducati) entices him into hiring her and some friends to attract customers by wearing their bikinis at the job site. What follows is a steady string of patrons along with a district attorney who wants to shut them down and a notorious flasher who appears out of nowhere at the most inconvenient times. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film had plenty of beautiful young women but the humor and overall plot left much to be desired. No doubt if a person is just interested in young ladies in various stages of undress then that viewer will probably have little to complain about. I especially liked Rikki Brando (as "Amy") and the aforementioned Kristi Ducati. But having said that it still wasn't enough for me to rate this movie any higher than I have as there are a number of other movies of this type which are certainly better. Below average.

The story has been done to death but this is an undisputed Cinemax classic an one of the reasons Cinemax is sometimes called skinemax. A group of girls are out of money a car wash business is out of money so the girls go to work at the car wash wearing almost noting and business starts booming. Like a lot of these movies there are the crusty uptight people who want to stop and censor the car wash saying it's bad and immoral. I remember this use to also air on HBO I first saw this in the early 90's when I was about seven I saw a lot of Cinemax movies when I was young. Ed Henson is known for direction movies like this Party Plan Takin it off party favors to name a few. If you like this i recommend Laderdale Beach babes from beyoned or any 90's up all night Or late night Cinemax features.

Sure, this movie falls into the B rated T+A movies category of the early 90's, spun off from the movies that kept teens glued to the VCR on a Friday night when the smoke supply was thin and there were no good bands in town, but that's what made this one fun.As the drummer of the soundtracks band; Todd Lane will tell you, the years of playing the sunny southern California music circuit were unforgettable, but being in a band at that time, loaded with talent and looking to make any noise over the onset of grunge music and the fall of good time rock and roll, a soundtrack to a movie was the one thing a band could only dream of.New Haven, the band behind the music, was more than up and coming at the time, they had arrived, and the tunes on this soundtrack prove just that. Not only did they appear on screen jamming away, the boys lit up radios that summer with the hits that made them more than popular.Founder and former CEO of Retrospect Records; Joe Dolan (thats me), was set to release the original demos that made this band the good time summer rockers they were, and hope is still there for this music to surface again. In 2007, hopes arise as Joe starts his engine again in the music industry with the formula for another record label. the start of this project is set to include about 8 songs from New haven and a liner from the band about what made those days so great.Incidentally, if you feel so inclined, you can search the IMDb and find a Billy Blanks movie that features some of the great tracks from Bikini Car Wash as they surfaced again in that soundtrack ... but that is a story for another day.Search the web for drummer Todd Lane and you too will learn the story of the band that rocked my world - straight forward good time rock, the way it was meant to be .... "Rockin' in my rockin' chair".See you Hollywod kids! Joe Dolan

This movie would definitely go on my "B-movie Hall Of Fame" list. It's just good on so many levels. Sure, the main purpose is to show nude women, but other than that it also has some good comedic moments, semi-dramatic moments, and even a dose of mystery as you try to find out who the notorious FLASHER is. Even eight years after it was released, and at least six years since I first saw it, I still enjoy watching this movie anytime it's on TV. Highly recommended by me.