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With: Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie, Meagan Good, Michael Clarke Duncan, Holland Taylor, Geoff Stults, Jimmi Simpson, Jessica Cauffiel
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Written by: Angela Robinson
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Directed by: Angela Robinson
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and language
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Running Time: 91
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Date: 16/01/2003
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By Jeffrey M. Anderson Buy D.E.B.S. on DVD. Sundance queen Angela Robinson stretches out her outstanding, 11-minute short film D.E.B.S. (2003) to feature length. It still has some of the fun jokes and the carefree, slam-bang premise, but lacks the punch of its predecessor. The short film had a team of four sexy girls fighting a sexy villainess. One of the girls has a secret love affair with the lady outlaw, and gets herself "kidnapped" every so often for a secret tryst. This time, Robinson sets up the story with the supervillain, Lucy (Jordana Brewster), and heroine, Amy (Sara Foster), meeting for the first time, and charting the dissent their relationship causes within the group. Brewster makes a terrific, unpredictable villain with a dazzling smile, but Foster looks a little lost in a very passive role. (It's a far cry from her warm, sexy debut in The Big Bounce.) Robinson, 33, borrows heavily from Valley Girl (1983) for her plot, showing the lovers yearning for each other across the wrong sides of the tracks. She further betrays her 1980s nostalgia with a great-sounding New Wave soundtrack (The Cure, New Order, etc.). The more plot elements Robinson uses to stretch things out, the thinner and glummer they get, especially toward the climax. Yet D.E.B.S. has enough wit and deadpan subtlety to recommend it. Devon Aoki (Sin City), Meagan Good and Jill Ritchie (a veteran of the short film) co-star as the other members of the team, while Michael Clarke Duncan and Holland Taylor play authority figures. DVD Details: Sadly, Sony's DVD does not -- as we had hoped -- include Robinson's original knockout short film.
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