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Never thought I would see this film on Blu ray. Much less one with a commentary. Bit of history. When cable finally made it to the backwoods community I grew up in it was 1990. I was working part time. So while my parents were happy to pay for cable,going from 6 to 8 channels on a good day to 30 was mind blowing to them,I was the one that said Hey I will pay the 20 bucks a month they want so we get Showtime and The Movie Channel, Yea this tiny company (Rural Cable vision) only offered Showtime,TMC and Disney Channel as premium channels. At 10 each a month.
Quickly I learned about Joe Bob Briggs show on TMC. I would set my vcr to record it. Then one week he got a 5 night event on Showtime. Each night he showed a different Emmanulle movie. And not the Sylvia Kristel ones. This was Laura Gemser and all the other bootleg Emmanuelles. I had an 8 hour vhs that I recorded each of this 5 night event on. And the final night after the Emmanuelle film ended Showtime aired the R rated cut of Bikini Carwash company and my tape got this too.
I had no clue. That tape sat in a box for years. I was tape trading a few years later and someone wanted that Fridays Joe Bob airing of Emmanuelle 4,the COrman cut of the film with Monique Gabrielle,and after it ended I let the master tape keep playing and saw Bikini Carwash Company.
Watched it all and found a film that was dumb and funny. A film where over half the running time feels like music videos shot for Hot Rocks on Playboy Channel. But a film I would put on sometimes just cause it was so dumb.
The nephew of the car wash owner is called to Califorina from the mid west,I think it was Iowa. He gets dropped off at the beach and is trying to find the car wash. Ends up running into our leads,who have just had all their packs of edible bikinis melt in the heat. They sell him one as "California Gumbo" and tell him how to get to the car wash.
The Uncle is sick. Nephew has to run the place and sees it is about to go under. Gets talked into hiring the California Gumbo Ladies to wash cars in bikinis. Saves the business. But a local politician wants to shut them down on moral decency grounds.
All the while a flasher is running around showing his dong to people.
This all converges in the last 20 minutes before we get one final MUSIC VIDEO set to a song from some forgotten glam rock band.
Being on Blu ray this of course looks better than my copy on that 8 hour VHS tape. From what I have read online it is the unrated cut. The music videos now are a bit longer and include some shots that were not on that SHowtime airing.
Heard this is an AI Upscale and sometimes the backgrounds look a bit smeary. The sound was decent. It is revealed on the commentary,cereal at midnight host talks to Jim Wynorski,that this was filmed on 16mm and then edited on tape.
Really this is a niche release for a niche audience. Those of us that remember when it was a big deal cause Hardbodies was playing on HBO that weekend.
Bikini Carwash Company Blu ray gets a B-
