Cover Girls

This was a cheesy TV movie of the week that was made about a year after "Charlie's Angels" went on the air and the music in this movie sounds just like the TV show. Cornelia Sharpe and Jayne Kennedy play Linda and Monique who are beautiful fashion models and also undercover agents. After watching this movie I realized I didn't really know what the main plot was. And I really didn't care. Sharpe and Kennedy are so beautiful to look at that its easy to believe they could be models. The shots of them by the pool really stand out. Sharpes character has all her telephones hidden in her home. Everytime one of them rings she has to dig them out of drawers. Ellen Travolta has an amusing role of a photographer and the reason she's so funny is because she's totally unbelievable as a photographer. She has a cheap wind-up camera and really doesn't care or bother about lighting. Don Johnson pops up in a very early role as another agent undercover as a rock'n'roll singer. And former James Bond George Lazenby plays a bad guy. Totally silly rip-off that is lighthearted fun. You can't take this seriously so I just had fun watching it. Did I mention that the two stars are really beautiful?

i only have a vague recollection of this movie. i remember the action being slow (it was a pilot, after all, so the production team still were likely to be feeling their way around). but the girls were indeed beautiful! yes, there were a lot of posing and primping for the camera and those scenes were actually informative and instructive back then. yes, it was entertaining in that next-top-model type of thing. it may not be fair to compare it to charlie's angels (altho the bandwagon mentality certainly was in effect) because the girls as portrayed were models 1st and agents 2nd. it looked promising enough, and the action and the story lines could have picked up if it had gone on to series. remember the series "cover up" many years after?

Home on a Saturday with nothing to do but laundry, I tuned into the Black Starz network to see a movie that I would only watch while bored. The premise features two, agency-owned models who moonlight with a detective agency. The music (sound-track), characters and acting were too reminiscent of Charlies Angels making one wonder, "why bother? This has already been done". In fact, Charlies Angels had (has, if you catch them in syndication) more to offer in that you get your set-up for the story right away, head straight for the action and within the hour, your done. Their acting is fairly decent and the characters are believable.

This made-for-TV movie drags the so-so plot entirely too long and the acting feels stilted, as if you're being read to; however, if you're a fan of Jayne Kennedy, she looks phenomenal in this movie as does her counterpart, Cornelia Sharpe. Due to the fact that they are models, there's lots of posing and cheesing for the camera. And for added bonus, you can see the future James 'Sonny' Crockett get his disco-grove on as the undercover agent (clearly one of Don Johnson's first films).

Overall, if you're a nostalgia 70's addict, then definitely add this to your collection. If you want a taste of what television movies were like before the 80's, based-on-a-true-story, and the 90's, based on-the-popular-novel genres took over? Then, check this one out.