IslandGuru Who payed the critics

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Izzy Adkins The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

Mike King Movie director Fred Olen Ray did it again, with another one of his classic bikini movies. "Ghost In A Teeny Bikini" starts out with Muffin Baker (Christine Nguyen) and some guy, having simulated sex on the set of a cheesy sci-fi movie. However, it's soon revealed that it's the set of a movie within the movie. Muffin gets a telegram (who sends those anymore?) informing her that her rich Uncle Silas has died. Muffin, and her movie director boyfriend Ted Wood, Jr. (Alexandre Boisvert), travel to Silas' mansion, for the reading of his will. My favorite scene involves the daughter of scheming lawyer Archibald Weisenheimer (Brad Bartram), the gorgeous Evilyn (Rebecca Love), seducing Ted Wood. Super-stacked Rebecca is a fiery redhead, whose simulated sex scene with Ted is hotter than the fireplace they're in front of! The love scene between Muffin Baker and Tabitha the Ghost (Nicole Sheridan) is another highlight in this movie. On the other hand, in the scenes when Marsh (Evan Stone) and Muffin Baker sing, you might want to hit the fast forward button. As a spoof of "The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini," this movie does quite well.

w22nuschler Christine Nguyen has done a lot of soft core movies and this is her best. It starts out with one of the hottest soft core love scenes I have ever seen. Christine is filming a love scene for her director boyfriend Ted. She starts out on a table on a bikini and her co star comes to rescue her. She quickly sheds her bikini and they go at it for 5 full minutes. There is plenty shots of her entire body. We get plenty full frontal nudity. Awesome start. She makes a few jokes about her career that are quite funny and then she meets her beau Ted at home. Only five minutes after the last love scene started, we get another smoking' hot scene from Christine. She has on the sexiest pink nightie. She tells Ted her rich uncle died and they need to go for the reading of the will. He is hesitant until she goes down on him. After the oral sex she stands up and he removes her nightie. I love that part because he takes it off and basically shows her body off to the camera. The was another 5 minute love scene. The best part of the movie is over, but wow what a first 15 minutes. She goes to the mansion and there are a lot more soft cores scenes that don't come close to the earlier scenes with Christine. She does a lesbian scene with Nicole Sheridan that is nice because we see her totally naked again. She ends up with the inheritance and the movie ends. The last line has Christine saying "I went down on a dead girl and I liked it". Great line! If you are a fan of Chritine's, this is the movie to get.

TimeNTide Yet another, but definitely one of the best of Fred Olen Ray's (aka Nicholas Medina) "Bikini" series of softcore films that stay in constant rotation on Cinemax. If you seen any of the previous films (e.g. "Bikini Round-Up", "Bikini Chain Gang"), you know what to expect. A silly but moderately amusing comic spoof of some movie genre, a cast half made up from Fred's band of regulars who've found a niche, and six good solid simulated sex scenes. As always, it's a big budget (for softcore porn) film that actually has a plot, action, sets, costumes, special effects (albeit cheesy), outdoor scenes, all new footage, etc. as opposed to all those softcore films which are nothing but several actors sitting around a house talking and having sex, sometimes with archive footage slipped in.However, this time there's a couple of new wrinkles in Fred's flick. First, it's one of the very rare occasions in the "Bikini" series where he doesn't use either Beverly Lynne or Nicole Sheridan as the lead actress ("Bikini Cavegirl" is the only other one I can think of). The very cute Asian girl Christine Nguyen gets the nod here and does a fine job. Second, SURPRISE!!! IT'S A MUSICAL!!! No, I'm not kidding. Porn stars Syren and Evan Stone each lipsynch a Halloween type novelty song by "The Moon-Rays". Both songs are very reminiscent of the stuff that Bobby "Boris" Pickett did back in the '60's (remember "The Monster Mash"?). Evan is especially funny dancing in his Frankenstein type boots. And Christine Nguyen actually sings (rather badly) some unidentified teenage love/heartache type song that also sounds as if it's from the '50s or '60s.This time the film is a sendup of those "reading of a rich relative's will at a spooky haunted mansion while everyone schemes to get the inheritance" type films. As usual, the plot is silly but quite amusing and is sprinkled with quite a few very funny lines. In fact, I think this flick is consistently funny as long as you enjoy puns, silly sexual double-talk and potshots at the movie industry.The cast is larger than normal for this type of film, but it's also one of the rare times in a softcore film that I thought everyone did a great job with the acting. Granted, some of the performances are campy on purpose, but there's not a stiff or bad performance in the flick. The standouts are Brad Bartram as the squirrelly, scheming lawyer, and Evan Stone as a "Lurch" type butler.As for the simulated sex scenes, the "Bikini" flicks always do a pretty good job, but this time the sex scenes are consistently very good to excellent, with lots of energy and variety. And with the larger cast, we get more variety in the actresses. And while all the girls are attractive and do a fine job, newcomer Rebecca Love is the standout. I'm still waiting for her to get a lead role in one of these "Bikini" flicks.Overall... one of the best, if not the best, of the "Bikini" softcore flicks.

warpigk This movie is a loosely adapted remake of the 60s Beach movies (think Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello) Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. So a lot of the jokes are "inside jokes". Still kind of cool since those movies lacked any real physical scenes but were entertaining none the less.The plot is an old one; evil lawyer, reading of the will at the haunted house, séance, and find the treasure at the end. Of the sex scenes, Rebecca Love stole the show by far and would have liked to have seen her in more scenes.Overall, Retromdeia Entertainment did an excellent job and would like to see more remakes of the beach movie classics, Pajama Party comes to mind among others.