When was the last time you thought of Sheena Easton? Okay, the Scottish sweetheart has not stayed in our consciousness as the Post-Modern Era has erased all beauty from our entertainment industry. Today we have vile monstrosities in western music. Madonna is a beast...Taylor Swift is a woke idiot...Lady Gaga is a creation no one wanted...and Katie Perry is a joke we're in the process of trying to forget. With a 1980s budget, our filmmakers today probably could not get Sheena Easton, hence the very lovely and nubile Dru-Anne Perry suffices nicely in our scifi/music/monster feature, 1986's "Vicious Lips," directed by Albert Pyun.
The all-girl band Vicious Lips has a chance to make it big. Their manager, Matty (Anthony Kents) had a deal with babe-promoter Maxine (Mary-Anne Graves) for a gig on a distant planet. The gals have a problem, their lead singer has just been run over by a bus. Now Matty combs the city for a new lead singer and finds Judy Jetson (Perry) performing at a community talent show. He absconds with her and introduces the babe to Bree (Gina Calabrese), Wynzi (Linda Kerridge), and Mandaa (Shayne Farris). The babes are kind of cold to their new and unknown lead singer. Surprise! She's a hit and Maxine is pleased at the find.
Uh oh...to get to the gig on the distant world, Matty steals a spaceship. The ship is hit by asteroids and crash-lands on a desert planet. What's worse, the cargo hold has a deadly and homicidal creature (Christian Andrews) in it. Now the monster is loose and wants to eat the gals. Matty is sent to find help and is captured by almost naked space sirens...lucky him. Judy has tiffs and catfights with her band members. Now the creature seems to take a hungry interest in Judy and chases her. What happens next is quite psychedelic and dreamy...just like the music of Vicious Lips. The monster will be joined in his pursuit of these lovelies, most notably Judy, and now Judy also is pawed and drooled on by mutants on this planet.
Will Vicious Lips ever get off this planet and make it to their gig? Will a gratuitous shower scene join the catfighting scene to make this the musical movie event of the 80s? Will the Post-Modern Era in America ever end, allowing us to enjoy beauty and art again? This is a fine film, better enjoyed today, with catfights and gratuitous plot devices. See "Vicious Lips" and then go find all the Miami Vice episodes that featured Sheena Easton.
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