Tan Lines (II) (2005)
3/10
Big disappointment - and where are the tan lines???
23 October 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Take some skateboard adolescents from the street and let them improvise over a roughly sketched story of one of them falling in love with the elder brother of his mate, while filming it with a hand held camera. What you'll get is what you can expect: bad acting, totally unconvincing characters, irritatingly unbalanced pictures, a story (if any!) that's falls apart. Everything is wrong in this movie, and I don't even blame the young guys who were mislead in joining-in. In fact, it felt almost like they were exploited, as the director frequently zooms in on their making-out and their bare buttocks.

The bizarre and almost surrealistic scenes with the girl and her aunt, where the (anti-)hero of the movie provides sexual services, seem to come from an entirely different movie and to have absolutely no relation to this one whatsoever, although I must admit that these were the only really entertaining scenes of the whole movie.

You are bound to get disappointed by this movie, whether you expect some sort of serious coming-of-age & coming-out story, or – as the title seems to hint at - a movie with lots of smooth surf-dudes. It's really neither.

I rank it a scarce 3 out of 10.
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