Atomic Vixens: Escape From The Valley Of The Sluts

With a Mexican surf rock theme song topping a soundtrack of MySpace bands, a loosely connected comic book plot about an evil organisation (L.I.M.P.) bent on controlling Earth's women, and a trippy series of scenes with game performers like Lacie Hart, Mika Tan and Justine Joli, Atomic Vixens: Escape From The Valley Of The Sluts is the perfect porn confection. Filmed in Erotivision, less a technology than a philosophy summarised by director Ron Royster's earnest wish to "just want to eat pizza with pretty girls, man," Vixens is a Pretty Girl-heavy evolution of American International Pictures like Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine that delivers where the good doctor did not; the bikinis come off and the go-go girls go-go for each other. Each scene in Vixens is introduced with a comic book story board that is a helpful way of setting apart what might normally be formulaic sex scenes from their counterparts in similar-budget movies. What makes Vixens an instant party classic is the glee with which tarted-up space-babe Mika Tan does a full Bond-girl scrim dance or extra-bendy Justine Joli performs a solo scene in which she rips her lime-colored tights and bites her own toe. Another way Vixens digresses from formula is the paucity of scenes with guys. James Deen seems to appear as an afterthought, a last-minute attempt to hit certain marketing points. Not needing to share the restroom with anyone, he delivers an equally-hammy performance to the ladies. Royster seems less concerned with giving screen time to the fellas in this movie than creating a male-gaze Sapphic Wonderland. And he succeeds. This movie is chock-full of pretty girls doing sassy, non-threatening things. Cast: Lacie Heart, Mika Tan, Justine Joli, Jade Starr, Ashley Steel, Leah Luv, Marie Luv, James Deen