morrison-dylan-fan With a fellow IMDber having recently done a great thread about Rock movies on IMDbs Classic Film board,I was pleased to discover that a family friend had recently got hold of girl band Sci-Fi flick!,which led to me getting ready to find out how vicious their lips could be.The plot:Hired to be the new singer after the original one has died, Judy Jetson finds herself playing in burnt-out Rock clubs with her Punk band.Trying to get the band to hit the big team,the groups manager is pleased to reveal that they have been invited to perform a huge gig,but there is a catch,which is that the venue is on a different planet.View on the film:Made as Hair Metal was just reaching its peak,writer/director Albert Pyun & cinematographer Tim Suhrstedt turn their spaces travels into glitz covered music video,with smoked covered corridors,flashing lights and huge hair giving the title a delightfully kitsch atmosphere.Whilst he gives the movie some catchy songs and is surrounded by great looking girls,the screenplay by Pyun fails to grab the glitter on screen,due to Pyun sticking the group in a spaceship for most of the film,where the music is left behind which leads to the spaceship plodding along to its destination,in a movie which has no vicious lips at all.

Wizard-8 Doing a little research on "Vicious Lips", I unearthed the fact that the movie never got a home video release in North America until more than twenty-five years after the movie was completed (though the movie was released on video in other countries.) Watching the movie, it becomes clear why apparently no North American video company was eager to distribute the movie. The fact that it was written and directed by Albert Pyun (for some reason billed as "Albert F. Pyun" here) should give a clue. This is an AWFUL movie. It's a real cheap production, often looking like it was filmed in basements as well as abandoned buildings, and often with the camera zooming in very close to the actors to hide the cheapness and to have stuff happen out of camera range so no expense has to be spent to actually show it. The movie is broadly acted so that every character comes across as a dimwit. The songs are very forgettable, and would have been considered that even back in the 1980s when the movie was made. But the worst thing about the movie is the screenplay. The characters are really thin, and there are huge chunks of the movie when little to nothing is happening. Not only that, in the last ten minutes there is a surprise twist that will have you throwing your remote at your television. All of which makes this movie one of Pyun's worst efforts among the countless bad movies he's made.

secrective Well Well Well. what a juicy 80s movie. kickin soundtrack, actings alright.ITS AN ALL GIRL BAND MOVIE, going to a gig, in outer space.The songs are pretty damn catchy. they are frequent within the soundtrack.What more do you want from a movie? Why isn't this (and all Albert pyun movies) on the syfy channel? seriously underrated and under watched.i recommend other pyun movies too.a space Alice in wonderland. if Alice was in a band.sfx are good. some cool looking monsters and puppetry.hair is 80s. some neon showing here and there.if you like this sort of thing, 'bad channels' and 'critters' make great 80s music/space movies.

Azundris "Vicious Lips" is set in the far future, where a band finally gets the opportunity for That Breakthrough Gig -- if they can make it to an "in" club on another planet in time...Given that the plot features no major twists, turns or surprises, given that the set is extremely trashy, the number of locations limited and the choice of them not overly inspired, Vicious Lips seems like a longish episode of the original Star Trek sans the familiarity with the characters we all know and love -- so whatever persuaded me to rate it "excellent"?I'm a sucker for Big Hair, and The Music of the Eighties, both of which the movie has plenty of, since the all-girl band's guitar-and-synth sound is vaguely reminiscent of the early Kim Wilde's, if both "rockier" and catchier (and a lot like that of "Radioactive Dreams", another Albert Pyun-movie of that era with a more coherent plot, but no big hair). Last but not least, the general air of ultra-trash somehow utterly fails to be annoying, lending a certain charm to the movie instead, soon turning the initial impression ("Hey, I could do that!") into a burning desire to phone up all your friends:"Let's make a movie!"