Bikini Airways (2002)

When Teri inherits a failing airline that carries a heavy debt, she's hard-pressed to come up with a way to get it in the black. But she turns everything around when she recruits her sexy friends and charters the plane out for bachelor parties.

Great fun to watch

This whole series of films from Retromedia, of which "the Bikini Chain Gang" is one, are actually great fun to watch and much better than I expected out of this type of movie. They are soft-core porn films, so there are all the expected nude scenes with beautiful women, love scenes, fake sex scenes, and so forth. Nothing new there. They are very much soft core, so they have none of the explicit hard core type shots, which makes them more viewable by a general audience (these are movies that my girlfriend would sit and watch with me and enjoy). But what makes them interesting is that they actually have a great tongue-in-cheek sense of humor about them.

The films don't take themselves too seriously or try to be something other than what they are; which is refreshing. In many of these types of movies, the "movie" is usually some really bad filler that tries to just fill in the gap between sex scenes. Not so in this series of movies from Retromedia. The "filler" in these movies is actually fun to watch just on it's own merit.

The cast in this series of films, which for the most part carries over from film to film, such as Nicole Sheridan and Evan Stone, are obviously having fun doing what they're doing. I was immensely surprised and impressed by Evan Stone, who is a hard core veteran, and the sense of humor and Jim Carrey-ish physical comedy that he brings to these films; who knew?. He's just great fun to watch. Nicole Sheridan, as well as being just beautiful to look at, also is clearly having fun playing some of the silly roles that she plays in the series, such as Jeannie, the ghost in the teeny bikini, and so on.

I would highly recommend this whole series of films. "The Erotic Dreams of Jeannie," The Bikini Chain Gang." "The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful," "Bikini Girls from the Lost Planet," "Ghost in a Teeny Bikini," are all part of this series with much of the same core cast (a few actors differ from film to film). When watched as a group of films together, with the core cast moving from one silly premise to another, you can see the great sense of humor of the cast that comes through time after time.
September 3, 2007

Great bikini movies!

For what they are, BIKINI CHAIN GANG and BIKINI AIRWAYS (and yes, this is a double-feature, even though this is not obvious from the cover) are great soft-core porn movies. Is anyone going to rank these with SCHINDLER'S LIST? Boy, I hope not. If they do, they certainly have something to learn about the taxonomy of movies.

The forte of these movies is their preponderance of nudity; sexy strip teases, spontaneous scenes of women taking their shirts off, steamy sex scenes, etc. On all of these accounts, the film scores quite high. And, in fact, is this not why you would buy this DVD in the FIRST place?

There was only one girl whom I did'nt find attractive. Unfortunately, she's in both films. She has a nice body, but I didn't think she was very pretty. Kind of a biker chick with tatts. Even so, there are enough other hot babes to make up for her.

So, if you have an interest in pretty much any movie that begins with "Bikini" then these flicks are for you. If your expectations on acting, plot, direction and everything else but eroticism are kept low, then you'll be all-set! May 21, 2006

What's better than a bikini movie? Two bikini movies!

Bikini Chain Gang/Bikini Airways is a great DVD release from Retromedia. Bikini Chain Gang is the main feature and is one of the best bikini movies they've ever done. It adheres to the classic "girls in prison" formula almost perfectly. Jessie (Beverly Lynne) is arrested for a crime she didn't commit and sent to prison. Of course you've got the corrupt warden, the tough head guard (Nicole Sheridan), and a bunch of hot female inmates having sex with the guards and each other. The only thing missing was a shower scene.

There are six sex scenes. Four are boy/girl, one is boy/girl/girl, and one is girl/girl. All of them are excellent. All the women are attractive and hot and do a great job in the sex scenes. In addition to Beverly and Nicole, the rest of the female cast includes Belinda Gavin, Brooke Taylor, and Jassie.

Bikini Airways is the bonus feature. It wasn't as good as Chain Gang, but was still good softcore and really made this DVD a great value. Terri (Regina Russell) inherits an airline from a deceased uncle. In order to generate much needed revenue, she decides to use their only jet to throw a bachelor party for a rich guy.

There are seven sex scenes. Six are boy/girl and one is girl/girl/girl. The first two weren't very impressive and they were the only two scenes for the first half of the movie. But during the second half, the heat gets turned up for the remaining five, which were much better. The women here are also attractive and hot. In addition to Regina, we get Belinda Gavin again, Amy Lindsay, Loni Lynn, and Wendy Devine.

Two bikini films on one DVD at a good price. This is very recommended. March 27, 2006

Warning: the ratio of comedy to sex is out of whack here

Terri (Regina Russell) inherits Janus Airways with its one airplane from her uncle Hugh Janus (say his name once or twice until you get the joke). She needs $25,000 to pay off the airlines debts and comes up with the idea of having girls in bikinis man the ticket counter to inspire clients. Many are inspired, but no one actually buys any tickets. Fortunately, rich guy Gary (Brad Bartram) has to get to his wedding in Miami to Francine (Wendy Divine), and since the girls in the bikinis were going to be the entertainment at his bachelor's party, Terri comes up with the bright idea of flying Gary to Miami and having his bachelor party on the flight (take a wild guess how much it will cost Gary).

This 2003 direct to video movie is your standard late night cable combination of soft core and soft comedy, the later provided by Captain Sam (Jay Richardson) and Dave (Sam Silver), who do their shtick with no concern for whether or not it is funny. Still, Richardson gets credit for being for nailing all of the bad jokes and being the only actor in the film totally at ease with his character and the story line, mainly because he does not have to do anything but watch the half-dozen sex scenes that are the main selling point of "Bikini Airways." The verdict is that the scenes involving the women (Kylie Biscayne as Vicki, Loni Lynn as Traci, and Julie Snow as Pam) are better than those involving the guys on the plane for the simple reason that the guys (Leland Jay as Jeff, Frankie Cullen as David, and Noah Frank as Jim) have this silly sophomoric grins on their faces before, during and after the sex scenes. I see those looks on their face and I do not think that these guys are lucky, I just think they are idiots, which is probably not the point and strongly suggests I am not this film's target audience.

There is an element of mystery here because we are pretty sure Terri and Gary have to end up together, since their names come first in the credits, and it only takes one phone call from Gary to his fiancé to convince us that the nuptials will not be taking place (although the incompetence of the pilots is potentially another reason there will be no wedding). This matters because Terri is part of the "serious" sex scenes that bookend "Bikini Airways." Everybody else is just having sex, but Terri is having sex with the man she loves (it just happens to be a different man at the end than it was in the beginning). The strange thing is that the humor is probably better in than the sex in this film, and you know that just cannot be right.

"Bikini Airways" might not be as titillating as you would like, but the kitchen sink approach with regards to the humor manages to save it from being an offensive example of this genre. The end title promised a film to be entitled "Bikini Frankenstein," but apparently the movie has yet to be made, and I have to admit I am ambivalent about such news... June 20, 2005

Who writes this stuff?

There is in no way anything in this film that could even remotely be mistaken for hard core content. It was with out a doubt one of the most disappointing films I've ever seen and wouldn't even classify this as soft core. My advice to anyone who's out shopping for films of a truly adult nature is that they ignore the reviews listed by wanna be film critics who wouldn't know a good film if it fell out of the sky, landed on their face, and started to wiggle. Go online and find real info about the films you are interested in, or narrow certain studios that you know turn out quality work. This piece just wasn't even worth the plastic it was re-mastered on. February 26, 2005

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