Vice Academy Part 2

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.

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.

Like all B movies sequels are unavoidable, but fortunately for once it's an enjoyable sequel. Linnea and Ginger Lynn return to bust more bad guys and stop the evil doers the only way they know how, with their bras, guns, and brains (to bad they can't rely on the latter for much help). The film is missing the spark of the original with loss of characters like Chucky Long and Cherry Pop, but does have some laughs, and it is a good way to kill 80 minutes. Look for B movie queen Melissa Moore in the pre-credit sequence.

"Vice Academy 2" is worth sitting through only for Ginger Lynn Allen: she is cute, she appears in black lingerie, she wears a revealing dress, she performs (along with Linnea Quigley) a strip dance, and she throws one mean right punch. Other than her, the film is so PAINFULLY drawn-out, so insultingly lame, so persistently witless that you simply won't believe it (just one example: what a brilliant idea to create a powerful half-woman/half-robot crime-fighter and then put a switch on its back that anyone can easily move to "worthless" or "overload" mode). If complete lack of talent was a crime, writer-director Rick Sloane would be serving a life sentence. My rating is pretty generous for this one. (*1/2)

Holly and Didi are new to the force and have to contend with a villainess who's threatening to poison the water, a robot bimbo-cop and a mean guy cop who thinks they're worthless for the meager reason that they didn't send backup when he was getting beat up (what a meanie). This film is just as worthless as the first one, if not more so. However,being a HUGE fan of "Bachelor Party" I liked Toni Alessandrini's minor part, showing more skin then in that great movie.

My Grade: D+

DVD Extras:Director's commentary;Interviews ;filmographies for Linnea Quigley and Jayne Hamil; and theatrical Trailer (which features nudity)

Eye Candy: Ginger Lynn Allen as Holly, Linnea Quigley as Didi, and Toni Alessandrini as Aphrodite each get topless