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This is a low budget movie done well. A vaccination turns all girls school students and teachers into zombies, but only the swim team is unaffected. The reason turns out to be surprisingly simple.

Aki (Sasa Handa) is a transfer student into an all girls high school. She meets Sayaka who recruits her into the swimming team. Sayaka has rather persuasive method, so she joins the swim team. She soon finds out that the everyone is turning into zombies but for some reason only the swim team is unaffected. They form rebel force of their own to combat the zombies.

There are gratuitous lesbian scenes and nude scenes all over this movie. It's hard to judge if this movie was made to show the naked bodies or tell the story. Maybe it's useless to try and figure out which is which, but one thing this movie doesn't fail is to entertain. The girls are beautiful, and the comedy is superb. There are bit of a gore also, but you can easily tell that it's fake.

IMO this is the best movie Sasa Handa has starred in. It's a unique mixture of sex, gore, and high school girls in a story unlike any other I've seen.

This is an uniquely entertaining movie coming from Japan, and is highly recommended.

I'm kind of ashamed to be writing this because it means I took the time to watch it. And it gets worse when you realize I'm taking more time to comment on it. Oh well, can't say you weren't warned. If the other reviews didn't slap some sense into you and cause you watch something useful like CITIZEN KANE or porn, then I've no sympathy for you. Normally, I would express my admiration of the nudity, attractive girls, gore, overall trashiness, nudity, callous and gleeful disdain of reality and nudity that a movie with a title of ATTACK GIRLS' SWIM TEAM might engender. Except... this movie may possess such attributes, but it's not done very well. An equivalent effect might be that of watching your parents dry-humping while talking dirty to each other (or so I'd assume- I've no experience to draw from, readers feel free to correct me at your leisure). You can't really discuss plot or characterization, except to say that the aforementioned undead or zombies don't appear until far too late and when they do, there's only about four or five. And they're in an all too brief scene of bloodletting... okay I'm bored with the zombies... but there is nudity! And a faux lesbian scene with incestuous undertones which would be worth a quick fast-forward to... but really, once that's done, it's a pretty dreary affair. The idea of 'so bad it's good' is always a dicey proposition to a viewer, but it never reaches the outlandish depths non-quality needs to be entertaining. It's just bad. It can't even muster the necessary 'movie magic' required to make you believe the whole production wasn't shot at an abandoned building with a couple of non-professionals on their lunch hour. And for all the hype of the title, the 'Swim Team' doesn't form until way too late and it then doesn't even do that much. Blaming this as an amateur effort seems overly cruel and is inaccurate- amateurs are at least striving. This thing is lazy. Kids, don't waste your time. Find something else. You're reading this on the internet. Something better is a click away.

I totally agree with the other reviewers, it's still a fun film to watch if like school girls, T&A, gore and craziness but the script is so disjointed and illogical that it stopped it in it's tracks many times.It's just like if the makers had some few good ideas and they try to make an entire film around them, it's bring us to the old Roger Corman times when they first find a tittle and a poster and then try to make something of it, with most the of the time deceptive results. There are so many school girls horror films from japan than this one is far to be the best one but you can take some guilty pleasure in some scenes anyway, just don't expect too much.

There are so many flicks coming from Japan lately and all do they have girls dressed as students, you know, short skirts and panties just to the knees. A lot of them do contain gore and do have nudity. But still that doesn't make a movie, you also need a good script.

The script here looked fine but it doesn't work flawless on screen. Some parts are a bit boring but the nudity makes it all up. It do contains a lot of red stuff and here and there we do have a bit of gory scene's but for Japanese standards it's low and most of the slashing or killings are done off-screen. The acting didn't provided any extra. You don't watch those movies for the acting. But being low on the gore site there are much better flicks out.

But if you are into those typical Japanese flicks with student look-a-likes then this is one to see. Of course it sometimes goes over the top with the sputtering of blood and some girls really get covered with the red stuff. The end is also over the top with a girl having extra powers coming out of her, well, you can guess it.

It's not all that bad but as I said, there's better to catch.

Gore 2/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Lately I've been watching some movies with some great titles: The Boy Who Cried Bitch, Chafed Elbows and Human Snot Tissue. But they may have all been bested by the one I saw last night. The Girl Rebel Force of Competitive Swimmers. A mouthful, but also a great damn name for a movie. Too bad that the name and some nudity is the only thing going for it.

The story revolves around a virus of sorts that is turning all the non-swimmers at the school into zombies. Some talkative, some not. Actually, the teachers talk and the students don't, when they're zombified. Anywho, throw in a mysterious new girl and a back-story with her and some mad doctor and you have the flick.

The story doesn't sound that bad right? Well, the story isn't the bad part, it's pretty creative. But damn, like Chaos's review asks, how on Earth can they screw this type of movie up? I was expecting at least something on the level of Wild Zero/Meatball Machine type production values. But it's really just a completely amateurish flick. And surprisingly what hurt it most was the gore. It just sucked. Like the films I just mentioned, those flicks were weird/silly flicks but the gore looked good and you were amped to see more. But with this, I really didn't even want to watch any more scenes of gore. Because it looked that weak. I think they showed the same, awful-looking severed arm on three separate occasions. The writing and gore were just too damn amateurish to be given a pass.

Though, the flick wasn't all bad, it had some nice nudity by the lead actress. She was very, very good looking and looked fantastic in even a one piece swimsuit. And her boobs, which I'd assume are fake (rare for Japanese girls) were really great looking. And the lesbo scene between her another swimmer was definitely attention worthy. Ahhhhtennnnhut!!

Overall this flick was really a let-down. With a great title, some great shots of hot Asian chicks swimming it up, some lovely Japanese breasts and butt and a more than capable story, the film definitely had potential. But with such a strong amateurish feel, some bad writing (far too much melodrama) and completely unimpressive gore effects the movie relies solely on scenes of nudity. Which isn't good if you're watching a flick called The Girl REBEL FORCE of Competitive Swimmers. Look instead for Machine Girl or the highly anticipated Tokyo Gore Police for some whacked out Asian craziness.