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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Vicious Lips a.k.a. Pleasure Planet a.k.a. Lunar Madness (1986)

An American science fiction musical written and directed by Albert Pyun.
A girl band in the '80s version of the future loses their lead vocalist and replaces her with a girl from a high school talent show. Their inept manager books them to play at a famous venue far away, but they crash their spaceship on the way there.
The beginning was really good, but the middle was lackluster to say the least. The music was really good in that '80s cheesy pop metal type of way. The characters were alright I guess. The plot loses coherency shortly after the ship crashes and the pacing was uneven. This is yet another case of misleading cover art from the '80s. The cover looks all Boris Vallejo, but the actual film delivers nothing close to this. The instruments that the band plays are "futuristic" to say the least and there's a discrepancy between band members and instruments. I see guitar, vocals, keys and bass, but where's the drummer that I hear so clearly? I'm rating it o.k.