Its 8 industry award nominations speak volumes about the untrustworthiness of those accolades, as demonstrated by the low quality of this DC Comics ripoff. It was made at the height of prominence for Britain's Bluebird Films, a company which seems to be defunct now, or at best on life-support.
I really knew better, having seen the same team's horrible "Cranked" previously, but I've been catching up rather thoroughly with the product of the leading British porn studios, so watching this clunker was more or less mandatory. Unlike most Bluebirds which are seemingly improvised 1-day-wonders, this evidently had a decent budget based on its set-pieces, but that budget was largely wasted given the poor results (poor lighting, poor SPFX, poor acting).
Dylan Ryder in the title role is appealing in her latex katsuit, and attractive in other identity as Miss D. Like many a recent TV episode re-arranged in post- production, the film opens with an exciting flash-forward wherein Ryder is thrown through a skyscraper window by villain Evan Stone. Hitting the pavement, it turns out she's only lost one of nine lives and lives to fight villains like Stone another day.
Minor plot line concerns her search for an antidote to a deadly poison that was developed by Stone's corporation and threatens the inhabitants of Gothard (I wish that were a tribute to a wonderful '60s Brit character actor Michael Gothard, a fave of mine circa 1971 when he co-starred in Ken Russell's "The Devils" as well as the fab horror film "Scream and Scream Again").
After seeing a scientist (Craig Spivek in a non-sex role), she has two missions, to steal a vase containing a rare "carnal mist" from a museum and also freeing the Joker character (untalented writer-producer Paul Chaplin) from his jail cell.
Along the way she is joined by other ripoffs from DC Comics, notably Wonderchick (sort of acted by thesping-challenged Jennifer Dark) and Superchick (another Yank import in the form of busty Kagney Linn Karter). The action scenes generally devolve into orgies or threesomes or foursomes of very routine and mechanical sex, especially where Chaplin is concerned. Seeing him over and over in Bluebirds, and nowhere else, it becomes clear that this is largely a vanity label for him.
Mr. Pete shows up as a comic book character named 2-Face, though the sloppy film has a girl calling him Harry at one point, too. Gemma Massey, Anna Lovato and Bridgette B. add to the porn content, but boredom sets in well before the clumsily directed open ending that lets the Joker character escape to set up a sequel, which fortunately was never foisted on us.
I really knew better, having seen the same team's horrible "Cranked" previously, but I've been catching up rather thoroughly with the product of the leading British porn studios, so watching this clunker was more or less mandatory. Unlike most Bluebirds which are seemingly improvised 1-day-wonders, this evidently had a decent budget based on its set-pieces, but that budget was largely wasted given the poor results (poor lighting, poor SPFX, poor acting).
Dylan Ryder in the title role is appealing in her latex katsuit, and attractive in other identity as Miss D. Like many a recent TV episode re-arranged in post- production, the film opens with an exciting flash-forward wherein Ryder is thrown through a skyscraper window by villain Evan Stone. Hitting the pavement, it turns out she's only lost one of nine lives and lives to fight villains like Stone another day.
Minor plot line concerns her search for an antidote to a deadly poison that was developed by Stone's corporation and threatens the inhabitants of Gothard (I wish that were a tribute to a wonderful '60s Brit character actor Michael Gothard, a fave of mine circa 1971 when he co-starred in Ken Russell's "The Devils" as well as the fab horror film "Scream and Scream Again").
After seeing a scientist (Craig Spivek in a non-sex role), she has two missions, to steal a vase containing a rare "carnal mist" from a museum and also freeing the Joker character (untalented writer-producer Paul Chaplin) from his jail cell.
Along the way she is joined by other ripoffs from DC Comics, notably Wonderchick (sort of acted by thesping-challenged Jennifer Dark) and Superchick (another Yank import in the form of busty Kagney Linn Karter). The action scenes generally devolve into orgies or threesomes or foursomes of very routine and mechanical sex, especially where Chaplin is concerned. Seeing him over and over in Bluebirds, and nowhere else, it becomes clear that this is largely a vanity label for him.
Mr. Pete shows up as a comic book character named 2-Face, though the sloppy film has a girl calling him Harry at one point, too. Gemma Massey, Anna Lovato and Bridgette B. add to the porn content, but boredom sets in well before the clumsily directed open ending that lets the Joker character escape to set up a sequel, which fortunately was never foisted on us.