danielemerson
I like bad movies. I like them a lot. So when I heard tell of the legend that is Andy Sidaris, I decided to check this one out.Now, normally, my taste in cinematic sweepings is a lot less boobular than this. However, you have to admit that Sidaris had a vision and knew what he needed to fulfil it. 1. Guns that go BANG! 2. Breasts that go BOING! 3. Dialogue that goes "buh..."The two female leads are not great thespian talents (I suspect the casting was done at the Playboy Mansion with the assistance of a tape measure), but do their part with bucketloads of enthusiasm.The film does have possibly the only skateboard/blowup doll/bazooka death scene in the history of celluloid, but the escaped snake is even less convincing than the plot itself. Altogether, this is a sort of evocation of what made the Eighties so damn... Eighties. Tasteless, silly, shiny, pneumatic, hairsprayed, gratuitous.
Matthew Anderson
Hard ticket to Hawaii was introduced to me by pure randomness, on a rainy day of having nothing to do, I looked out on the Internet movies considered so horrible and cheesy, that they are actually hilarious and entertaining! I saw all of them except that one movie; Hard ticket to Hawaii... And... Oh.. My.. F****ng God, this movie is a masterpiece of awful! I mean, it's like if a Porn movie and Rambo had a baby... Let me sum up this movie in a few words; Boobs, Guns, Drugs, Blood, Lots of boobs and A GIANT SNAKE! After reading this, you probably have the urge of watching this flick out, if not well... Good for you, cause that movie if really terrible!For those who wants to be entertained by nudity violence and hilariously bad dialogues, watch this movie you'll laugh your butt off! For those who wants a cinematic and artistic experience of art, well, why are you even on this page?! This movie, as a normal dude who wants to be entertained, deserves an 8/10... For the mainstream critics, it is AT BEST a 3/10... In my humble opinion! Thanks for reading!
gridoon
"Hard Ticket to Hawaii" is a movie that seems to have all the right ingredients, but somehow they never quite gel. There are beautiful, fit women in skimpy clothing or less, exotic locations, witty / corny dialogue ("If brains were bird crap, your cage would be clean"), killer frisbees (!), explosions, etc. But the pacing could have been snappier, the girls could have kicked more a$$ (the villainess-bodybuilder is definitely underused), and that snake is the fakest snake in the history of snakes! Still, Dona Speir handles her role with conviction and Hope Marie Carlton is just adorable. For all his flaws, Andy Sidaris remains one of the few American directors who love the girls-with-guns genre so much. (**1/2)
culwin
After seeing some of the reviews on here, I had to set the record straight. This on Cinemax around 11pm almost every other night - so what does that tell you??? If you are looking for nudity (which I'm all for), then you will enjoy this movie (once you fast forward past all the other parts). But if you are looking for anything else other than a purely awful movie then you are in the wrong place. The plot is laughable and quite boring, and is only spiced up irregularly by all-to-brief nude scenes. Oh yeah, and there's like this totally fake-looking snake that goes around killing people or something. Worse than Anaconda (believe it or not). I can't even imagine anyone enjoying this movie even if they were drunk.