Vice Academy Part 2

About 15 minutes into "Vice Academy Part 2" I thought the words 'dumb' and 'clumsy' would be accurate enough to describe this comedy. At the end of the movie, though, there was only one thing left to say about it... Utterly moronic. So yes, things go from bad to worse in "Vice Academy Part 2". Arguably, the only two reasons to see this film are Linnea Quigley and Ginger Lynn Allen. They're both good-looking blondes who can't act (something they're very well aware of themselves), and since I have no particular interest in these two ladies I can safely say this whole sorry excuse of a film was completely lost on me. But since I was familiar with Linnea's history as a scream queen in horror movies and Ginger (an ex-pornstar?) apparently has fans of her own, I decided to take a risk and give the dubious "Vice Academy Part 2" a watch. So well, I brought this onto myself.

There's virtually no plot to speak of. Some female criminal called Spanish Fly is out to destroy the population of L.A. and she's aiming to do this by polluting the city's water supply with an aphrodisiac. She starts by poisoning the L.A. police department first. Holly (Ginger) & Didi (Linnea) are on the verge of getting fired, but end up getting the assignment of stopping Spanish Fly. Since there's only two main sets in this movie - the police office building and a night club - you can expect not much to happen during the next 90 minutes. And whenever nothing's happening (which is most of the time), the scenes are rigged together with lame sex-jokes.

As if writer/director Rick Sloane had one sudden moment of pure genius inspiration, all of the sudden he throws Bimbo Cop into the story. An incredibly cheesy cyborg-cop - who just looks like a female wrestler with a complementary silly outfit - who's supposed to save the day and arrest Spanish Fly at the night club, which is also the perfect setting of course for Ginger & Linnea to perform a striptease act. So yes, the two leading ladies bare their breasts eventually. Obviously, it's meant to be the movie's highlight and it pretty much is.

"Vice Academy Part 2" is the equivalent of the Troma company trying to make a straight-up (sexy) comedy. It's very hard to fathom that their were in fact 6 movies made in this "Vice Academy" franchise. It must be a real torment to sit through them all. At least for me, I imagine it to be. I've had more than enough of my share already with this one.

Good news is this one is just as good as the first one. Bad news is the first one wasn't good. Holly Wells (Ginger Lynn Allen) and Didi (Linnea Quigley) have graduated and are now vice cops. Problem is they must work as a team or will get the job of going undercover as a prison inmate.This time around the villain is Spanish Fly (Marina Benvenga) and she plans to taint the water supply for the city of L.A.

Has the same title song as the original, which ain't a bad song, but you'd think writer/director Rick Sloane could get a different song. Same actors playing in different roles. Looks like they might have had fun making these movies, but it is almost like torture to sit through.

This sequel to the original "Vice Academy" is even duller and more incomprehensible than the first. There *may* be more plot here, but it is told so badly that it doesn't involve you at all, and thus you can't even follow it from scene to scene.

The overarching narrative, if it can be said to have one (it really doesn't) seems to involve a bad girl called Spanish Fly who wants to spike the town's water supply with an aphrodisiac. Linnea Quigley and Ginger Lynn Allen, no longer members of the academy (so why does the word "academy" appear in the title?) apparently have to go undercover as strippers to catch the bad girl. That is allegedly the main story, but they only appear as strippers for about one scene, as does the main antagonist. So what is the rest of the movie? Sketches without punchlines? That's as good as I can get to explaining it.

There is a subplot this time about a misogynistic, hunky male cop who looks more like a stripper in his cop outfit than Quigley and Allen. Indeed, he probably spends more of the movie undressed, at one stage confronted by Quigley in the men's locker room, who rips off his towel, exposing his bare butt to the camera, and his groin to her, so that she can mock his lack of manhood. Later on, he is stripped to his bikini underwear and chained up in a BDSM type scenario, ensuring that this movie will only ever be watched or remembered by fans of humiliation themed fetish porn.

Remember how in the first "Vice Academy" there was a feeling like the cast and crew were having more fun making the movie than you were watching it? Like the whole thing was a private joke on their behalf, like they thought the whole movie was so ridiculous as to be funny without needing any jokes? Being a sequel, there's less of that this time around - it was obviously only made to cash in on the first - but this time there is a joke character in the form of female bodybuilder Teagan playing a character called "BimboCop", who is, indeed, supposed to be a kind of robot, complete with a synthesised voice.

I bet their sides split when they came up with that one.

The feud between "Holly Wells" (Ginger Allen) and "Didi" (Linnea Quigley) continues in this second film of the "Vice Academy" series with each being warned by their boss, "Miss Devonshire" (Jayne Hamil) that there will be severe consequences for them if they cannot work together as a team. Both reluctantly agree but one influential person in their department by the name of "Officer Petrolino" (Scott Layne) insists upon their immediate termination. So, in an effort to capture a notorious criminal named "Spanish Fly" (Marina Benvenga) both Holly and Didi are compelled to work together while at the same time try to appease the sex-starved Officer Petrolino as well. It's either that or go undercover at a prison. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film suffered from its rather obvious low-budget and incredibly weak script. Admittedly, there were a couple of humorous moments here and there with the scenarios involving the switchboard operator named "Jeannie" (Jo Steele) being the best in my opinion. However, everything went downhill rather quickly when the robot, "Bimbocop" (Teagan Clive) was introduced and the film never fully recovered after that. In short, this movie had potential but failed to attain it and my (somewhat generous) rating reflects this conclusion. Slightly below average.

My review was written in August 1990 after watching the movie on Paramount/Prism video cassette.

Made-for-video sequel reunites B-movie star Linnea and ex-porn star Ginger Lynn in a mild comedy patterned after WB's "Police Academy' series. Paramount's video wing should do well with this well-packaged, painless entry from Prism Entertainment.

"Vice Academy Part 2" limns the duo combating Spanish Fly ((Marina Benvenga), a campy villainess holding the city ransom as she threatens to contaminate the water supply with an aphrodisiac.

Running gag of the two uninhibited heroines (based on their previous films) portraying blushing innocents is overdone. Gargantuan body builder Teagan is fun as a robot named Bimbocop. All three heroines are billed with and without their last names.

Physical comedy is ably handled by Jayne Hamil as the girls' commander while Toni Alessandrini impresses as a stripper. Tech credits are modest.