As usual his wife Arlene was the producer.
The cast of this one includes no less than six Playboy Playmates.
Donna (Dona Speir) and Nicole (Roberta Vasquez) are undercover federal agents in Hawaii. They stumble onto something big when an innocent girl is the vicim of what was clearly a professional hit. The girl just happened to be wearing the exact same dress as Nicole. The girls figure that Nicole was the intended target.
The hit was ordered by a Juan Degas (Erik Estrada), who has a special grudge against Donna. He didn’t want Donna hit. He wants her to suffer first, before he takes care of her himself.
Degas is involved in gun-running, using Molokai as a staging point. But the girls are cleverly decoyed to Las Vegas.
Degas is obsessed by his quest for revenge, just as much as protecting his gun-running racket.
Donna doesn’t know who is out to get her since she thinks Degas is dead. She also hasn’t realised that her mother, who happens to be the Attorney-General of Nevada, is going to get mixed up in all this.
The Feds organise a team to take down Degas. Naturally it includes a member of the Abilene clan, in this case Shane Abilene (Michael J. Shane). Like all male members of the family Shane is a staggeringly bad shot, a running gag in the series which will be used very cleverly and wittily towards the end.
The team also includes professional magician (and Federal agent) Abe. He gets a delightful scene involving some very unusual interrogation methods.
There has to be a bad girl and this time around it’s Cash (Devin DeVasquez) and she’s a formidable and coldblooded hitwoman.
Typically for a Sidaris movie the bad guys all look like bad guys and the sexy bad girl looks like a sexy bad girl. The good guys look like good guys. It’s cartoonish but it’s part of the Sidaris style and it adds to the fun. You don’t watch Andy Sidaris movies for moral ambiguity.
Like all of Sidaris’s movies this one is technically very polished which helps to make it look more expensive than it is. Guns is beautifully shot.
Andy and Arlene Sidaris had a positive genius not just for finding good locations but for using them efficiently and economically, and for getting added production values from those locations. If you shoot scenes in a luxury hotel your movie will have the right aura of money and glamour even though you’ve spent hardly any money.
Since this is an Andy Sidaris movie there are action scenes involving motorcycles, aircraft, ultra-light aircraft, helicopters and boats. And there will be explosions. There’s a cool scene where Donna is under aerial attack. If only she had a shoulder-launched multiple rocket launcher with her. Then she remembers - she does have a shoulder-launched multiple rocket launcher in the back of the van. Sensible girls don’t go anywhere without a multiple rocket launcher.
Sidaris knew how to do impressive action set-pieces that are clever and imaginative as well as exciting. This movie has some fine examples.
Guns is just non-stop action and mayhem with lots of extraordinarily gorgeous women who manage to be frequently topless. This is such a fun movie and it’s highly recommended.
Andy and Arlene provide another of their delightful audio commentaries.
Guns is included in the Mill Creek Girls, Guns and G-Strings DVD boxed set. The 16:9 enhanced transfer are lovely are there’s an audio commentary for every movie. Most of thee movies are now on Blu-Ray as well.
The cast of this one includes no less than six Playboy Playmates.
Donna (Dona Speir) and Nicole (Roberta Vasquez) are undercover federal agents in Hawaii. They stumble onto something big when an innocent girl is the vicim of what was clearly a professional hit. The girl just happened to be wearing the exact same dress as Nicole. The girls figure that Nicole was the intended target.
The hit was ordered by a Juan Degas (Erik Estrada), who has a special grudge against Donna. He didn’t want Donna hit. He wants her to suffer first, before he takes care of her himself.
Degas is involved in gun-running, using Molokai as a staging point. But the girls are cleverly decoyed to Las Vegas.
Degas is obsessed by his quest for revenge, just as much as protecting his gun-running racket.
Donna doesn’t know who is out to get her since she thinks Degas is dead. She also hasn’t realised that her mother, who happens to be the Attorney-General of Nevada, is going to get mixed up in all this.
The Feds organise a team to take down Degas. Naturally it includes a member of the Abilene clan, in this case Shane Abilene (Michael J. Shane). Like all male members of the family Shane is a staggeringly bad shot, a running gag in the series which will be used very cleverly and wittily towards the end.
The team also includes professional magician (and Federal agent) Abe. He gets a delightful scene involving some very unusual interrogation methods.
There has to be a bad girl and this time around it’s Cash (Devin DeVasquez) and she’s a formidable and coldblooded hitwoman.
Typically for a Sidaris movie the bad guys all look like bad guys and the sexy bad girl looks like a sexy bad girl. The good guys look like good guys. It’s cartoonish but it’s part of the Sidaris style and it adds to the fun. You don’t watch Andy Sidaris movies for moral ambiguity.
Like all of Sidaris’s movies this one is technically very polished which helps to make it look more expensive than it is. Guns is beautifully shot.
Andy and Arlene Sidaris had a positive genius not just for finding good locations but for using them efficiently and economically, and for getting added production values from those locations. If you shoot scenes in a luxury hotel your movie will have the right aura of money and glamour even though you’ve spent hardly any money.
Since this is an Andy Sidaris movie there are action scenes involving motorcycles, aircraft, ultra-light aircraft, helicopters and boats. And there will be explosions. There’s a cool scene where Donna is under aerial attack. If only she had a shoulder-launched multiple rocket launcher with her. Then she remembers - she does have a shoulder-launched multiple rocket launcher in the back of the van. Sensible girls don’t go anywhere without a multiple rocket launcher.
Sidaris knew how to do impressive action set-pieces that are clever and imaginative as well as exciting. This movie has some fine examples.
Guns is just non-stop action and mayhem with lots of extraordinarily gorgeous women who manage to be frequently topless. This is such a fun movie and it’s highly recommended.
Andy and Arlene provide another of their delightful audio commentaries.
Guns is included in the Mill Creek Girls, Guns and G-Strings DVD boxed set. The 16:9 enhanced transfer are lovely are there’s an audio commentary for every movie. Most of thee movies are now on Blu-Ray as well.
1 comment:
Ridiculous, and ridiculously entertaining - in fact, I think I've used that expression before to describe a Sidaris movie. From what I remember, this one has a little more actual plot than usual, but don't let that distract you from the boobs and bombs.
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