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'Malibu Express: Special Edition'
(Darby Hinton, Sybil Danning, Art Metrano, et al / Blu-ray + Digital / R / (1985) 2019 / Mill Creek Entertainment)

Overview: What appeared to be a simple murder case for private investigator Cody Abilene becomes a complicated matter when you have to factor in all the beautiful women, including the widow, who are potential suspects.

Blu-ray Verdict: This was actually the first film I watched from Andy Sidaris' wondrous 12-film box-set (aptly titled Girls, Guns and G-Strings) and now I get to watch it via this all new 4K film transfer and HD restoration (first time available in HD Widescreen also!) from Mill Creek Entertainment.

Sidaris's formula is simple: dumb action films with dumb heroes and sexy women. The men boast big 'taches, big guns and big muscles; the women sport big hair, big tits, and unfeasibly tiny outfits.

Furthermore, the film seems simply made to show off the "talents" of numerous Playmates and Penthouse Pets. Sidaris tries to mask the playmates by creating a murder mystery to keep the flow of the film going (which was an ongoing trend in many of his later films).

While the so-called "plot" in 'Malibu Express' does become rather needlessly convoluted, Sidaris doesn't allow it to get in the way of delivering plenty of fake tits and athletic bodies!

Darby Hinton, the star of the film is all smiles - as well as he should be considering the amount of ladies who offer their bodies to him - as a private eye put on the case of uncovering the identity of the person behind selling computer chip secrets to the Russians.

Soon he is involved in uncovering the person involved in the murder of a butler / driver who was blackmailing the household of a rich wheel-chair bound aristocrat, Lady Lillian Chamberlain (Niki Dantine).

It all ties to a businessman whose being supplied monetary funds from Lady Lillian's daughter, Liza (Lorraine Michaels). He sends his muscle after Cody (Hinton), needing to recover some film shot by Shane(Brett Clark), the butler before he died after the killer shot and stabbed him.

The film has the face of the killer who was escaping after removing a tape from Shane's video recorder. Sybil Danning has a minor role as Contessa Luciana, an agent who not only hires Cody but is one of his (many)lovers as well.

Well, Danning is here basically to show a little skin, mostly in a teeny bikini or gowns which are designed to showcase her figure and big jugs!

Thrown in the mix is this family of hicks who constantly challenge Cody to street races and a female cop, Beverly (Lori Sutton), who assists him in his case (among other things!).

Unveiled as Cody works on the case is that Lillian's son, Stuart (Michael A Andrews), married to Anita is gay (oh, and moonlights as a transvestite!), one of three Shane was attempting to extort.

Hopefully you're keeping up with all this, so I shall continue. Cody's affair with a race car driver, June Khnockers (yuck, yuck) is played for laughs when he uses her vehicle to evade the trio of assassins after the role of film.

Lynda Wiesmeier is always pulling out her tits, often getting the attention she seeks after. Another gag is two honeys who have a boat docked on the same harbor as Cody, always calling on him for a little hanky panky; with him often too busy to take them up on their offers!

It's important to understand what you are getting yourself into when popping in an Andy Sidaris movie because his work doesn't exactly appeal to the head on your shoulders (if you catch my drift!). This is a newly-restored Widescreen Presentations (1.78:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

Introduction by Director Andy Sidaris
Audio Commentary
Behind the Scenes Featurette
Trailers

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