Top teen pop singer sensation Sexina (a winningly spunky performance by the gorgeous Lauren D'Avella) fights evil and corruption in the music industry on the side as a luscious, yet lethal leather-clad private investigator. Sexina's latest case has her on the search for a missing scientist who has been abducted by a nefarious record company president The Boss (deftly overplayed with deliciously hammy panache by Adam West) so he can create a cyborg boy band.
Writer/director Erik Sharkey keeps the enjoyably silly story moving along at a constant brisk pace, maintains an engaging tongue-in-cheek tone throughout, and milks loads of laughs from the amusing sense of blithely kitschy and ridiculous anything goes humor that not only pokes merry fun at everything from abusive gay football coaches to tacky daytime talk shows, but also makes plenty of spot-on sidesplitting satirical jabs at the inherent inanity of the whole modern music industry and our society's obsession with glamorous pop stars who are basically all style and no substance (the robot band Top That in particular are absolutely hilarious in their jaw-dropping absurdity). Moreover, it's acted with zest by an enthusiastic cast, with especially spirited contributions from Kellie Fernold as lovable nerdy misfit Vera, Luis Jose Lopez as arrogant and conceited singer Lance Canyon, Allyn Rachel as Sexina's smitten partner Sara, Ronald J. Zambor as sensitive jock Zach, Steve Lord as Sexina's overzealous bodyguard Chainsaw, and Alfredo D. Troche as smarmy agent Sal. Both the glossy cinematography by Greg Boas and Domnik Mack's funky score are up to par. Supremely groovy theme song sung by Davy Jones of The Monkees, too. A real hoot.
Writer/director Erik Sharkey keeps the enjoyably silly story moving along at a constant brisk pace, maintains an engaging tongue-in-cheek tone throughout, and milks loads of laughs from the amusing sense of blithely kitschy and ridiculous anything goes humor that not only pokes merry fun at everything from abusive gay football coaches to tacky daytime talk shows, but also makes plenty of spot-on sidesplitting satirical jabs at the inherent inanity of the whole modern music industry and our society's obsession with glamorous pop stars who are basically all style and no substance (the robot band Top That in particular are absolutely hilarious in their jaw-dropping absurdity). Moreover, it's acted with zest by an enthusiastic cast, with especially spirited contributions from Kellie Fernold as lovable nerdy misfit Vera, Luis Jose Lopez as arrogant and conceited singer Lance Canyon, Allyn Rachel as Sexina's smitten partner Sara, Ronald J. Zambor as sensitive jock Zach, Steve Lord as Sexina's overzealous bodyguard Chainsaw, and Alfredo D. Troche as smarmy agent Sal. Both the glossy cinematography by Greg Boas and Domnik Mack's funky score are up to par. Supremely groovy theme song sung by Davy Jones of The Monkees, too. A real hoot.