Blondes Have More Guns

Starring:Michael McGaham, Elizabeth Key, Richard Neil (III), Gloria Lusiak, AndrÃ© Brazeau, Brian A. York, Bernie Buttner, Ramona Lisa, Derek-James Yee, Ron Meier, Anderson Lim, Elizabeth Conrad, Paul Ferrari, Carol Daly, Dianne Lanning, Megan Bajon, Antoinette Sandmann, Cathy Pizza, Karl-Heinz Teuber, John Faris
Director: George Merriweather
Studio: TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Product Description
A scarf, a chainsaw and a mysterious blonde are the only clues to a growing number of stiffs (and not all of them are dead bodies!) Who can the police turn to? Harry Bates, of course, the smartest officer on the force. TOO BAD HARRY CAN'T OUTWIT A HOUSEPLANT! Lucky for him he has his trusty partner Dick Smoker (Richard Neil - The Young and the Restless, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and his faithful dog (who seems to be a guy in a dog suit) to help him solve the case. The only suspects are a pair of beautiful sisters, Montana (Miss California Elizabeth Key - Mr. Payback, Matt Houston) and Dakota (Gloria Lusiak - Power Rangers, Tales from the Crypt). When the trigger happy Harry gets romantically involved with the twin half step-sisters will he lose more than his cool?

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Running Time 90 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE
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Writer-director George Merriweather's proudly crude comedy Blondes Have More Guns parodies erotic crime thrillers like Basic Instinct and largely succeeds, thanks to a very game cast and a nonstop barrage of lowbrow humor. Michael McGaharn stars as a trigger-happy L.A. detective assigned to crack a rash of chainsaw murders; his investigation (such as it is) leads him to a gold-digging femme fatale (Elizabeth Key) and her equally unscrupulous half-sister (Gloria Lusiak). When Harry becomes intimately involved with both women, it's up to his partners--one of whom believes he's a dog--to help him crack the case and find the killer. Borrowing the gags-every-minute approach refined by Airplane! and The Naked Gun series, Blondes isn't as consistently funny as those films, but does manage to be frequently amusing even when a joke bombs (which is fairly often), and should appeal to fans of broad slapstick. --Paul Gaita

Average customer rating:

Blondes and Troma have such fun
Blondes and Troma have such fun
A Weird Al Yankovic style parody
I laughed nonstop
Wild and wacky

Blondes Have More Guns
Starring: Michael McGaham , Elizabeth Key , Richard Neil (III) , Gloria Lusiak , and André Brazeau
Director: George Merriweather
Manufacturer: TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0001XAL5U
Release Date: 2004-04-27

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Writer-director George Merriweather's proudly crude comedy Blondes Have More Guns parodies erotic crime thrillers like Basic Instinct and largely succeeds, thanks to a very game cast and a nonstop barrage of lowbrow humor. Michael McGaharn stars as a trigger-happy L.A. detective assigned to crack a rash of chainsaw murders; his investigation (such as it is) leads him to a gold-digging femme fatale (Elizabeth Key) and her equally unscrupulous half-sister (Gloria Lusiak). When Harry becomes intimately involved with both women, it's up to his partners--one of whom believes he's a dog--to help him crack the case and find the killer. Borrowing the gags-every-minute approach refined by Airplane! and The Naked Gun series, Blondes isn't as consistently funny as those films, but does manage to be frequently amusing even when a joke bombs (which is fairly often), and should appeal to fans of broad slapstick. --Paul Gaita

Customer Reviews:

Blondes and Troma have such fun.......2003-03-13

A beautiful blonde, whose face we don't see, is sitting atop a man, his hands tied to the bed. Sound familiar? Well, instead of an ice pick, she uses a chainsaw, and guess what? From the moment the message "This motion picture has been altered from its original format. It has been dubbed in Swahili", appears on screen, we know how serious this movie is.

The Concord Police Department investigates, with officers Dick Smoker and Harry Bates, the latter who find a clue through a wedding invitation. The blonde getting married is Montana Beaver, though via her marriage to loser architect Lyle Shotz, becomes Montana Beaver-Shotz. The exchange over this bit of info goes like this:

Smoker: It was a lovely ceremony Mrs. Beaver-Shotz.

Montana: Montana, please.

Smoker: It was a lovely Montana, Mrs. Beaver-Shotz.

Montana: The hyphen is silent.

Bates: You shouldn't try to hide it. You should be very proud to still have it on your wedding day.

Hyphen, hymen, get it? This is typical of the dialogue throughout the movie, snappy, play-on-words, but delivered deadpan a la The Naked Gun. Much of the film's strengths rest on that delivery, as well as sight gags.

Bates is very much lacking in the brain department. His former partner Henry took the death of his dog hard and is dressed up in a dog costume, but Harry takes it all in stride. "He was a good cop. Now he's a good pet."

To complicate matters, there's Dakota, Montana's "twin half-sister, once removed", who falls for Harry. She looks really nice when she has her hair like Bonnie Tyler in one scene. Meanwhile, there are a few more killings.

This is mostly a parody of Basic Instinct, down to the "no smoking in the interrogation room scene", but there are pokes at
Indecent Proposal, Silence Of The Lambs (the autopsy scene involving the cadavre "Wait! There's something in his mouth!"), The Three Faces Of Eve, and The Crying Game, as well as plays on verbal references to Rear Window, Dirty Harry and 9-1/2 Weeks. Some of them are caught easily, such as the list of doctors paged over the hospital intercom--"Dr. Quinn, your show has been cancelled." Others are subtle, such as the opening scene at a restaurant, I heard a black man saying off-screen, "Nicole, tell the waiter to get me one of them big a-- steak knives." I about bust a gut laughing.

The sex scene between Harry and Dakota involving pizza is sheer hilarity, with cartoon and animal sound effects, and Dakota has a really nice pair to boot.

... In one scene, Harry, when discussing having rugrats (guess which movie?) says he wants three kids: "If one turns out gay, you can disown him and you won't be left with an only child."

Michael McGaharn is simply funny as Harry Bates, aided by the two luscious blondes, Elizabeth Key (Montana) and Gloria Lusak (Dakota). A very silly movie lacking PC-ness of any kind. It'll leave you with anything but a "7-11 state of mind." Whoever thought Troma could make something so funny?

Blondes and Troma have such fun.......2003-03-13

The Concord Police Department investigates, with officers Dick Smoker and Harry Bates, the latter who find a clue through a wedding invitation. The blonde getting married is Montana Beaver, though via her marriage to [] architect Lyle Shotz, becomes Montana Beaver-Shotz. The exchange over this bit of info goes like this:

Smoker: It was a lovely ceremony Mrs. Beaver-Shotz.

Montana: Montana, please.

Smoker: It was a lovely Montana, Mrs. Beaver-Shotz.

Montana: The hyphen is silent.

Bates: You shouldn't try to hide it. You should be very proud to still have it on your wedding day.

This is mostly a parody of Basic Instinct, down to the "no smoking in the interrogation scene", but there are pokes at
Indecent Proposal, Silence Of The Lambs (the autopsy scene involving the cadavre "Wait! There's something in his mouth!"), The Three Faces Of Eve, and The Crying Game, as well as plays on verbal references to Rear Window, Dirty Harry and 9-1/2 Weeks. Some of them are caught easily, such as the list of doctors paged over the hospital intercom--"Dr. Quinn, your show has been cancelled." Others are subtle, such as the opening scene at a restaurant, I heard a black man saying off-screen, "Nicole, tell the waiter to get me one of them big a-- steak knives." I about bust a gut laughing.

The sex scene between Harry and Dakota involving pizza is sheer hilarity, with cartoon and animal sound effects, and Dakota has a really nice pair to boot.

A Weird Al Yankovic style parody.......2001-06-28

Greetings from Tromaville!

A parody of cop films involves a cop who tries to solve a murder with his traumatized friend who is a policeman that think's he's a dog ("It's a shame, he was a good cop." "Yea, but he's a great dog!"), a woman who has an identical twin step-sister, and many other zany charectors!

If you are a fan of "The Naked Gun", "Hot Shots", or "UHF", you should definetly check out "Blonds Have More Guns"

I laughed nonstop.......1999-09-10

This is one of the funniest films I have seen in a long time. I literally laughed nonstop until the credits, and even they were funny. This reminds me of the Groove Tube or Kentucky Fried Movie. I can't wait to see what this Merriweather guy does next.

Wild and wacky.......1999-09-03

Wild and wacky sendup of such thrillers as Basic Instinct and Seven. Comedian Michael McGaharn is right on the money as Detective Harry Bates, quick with the one-liners and hot on the trail of a serial killer. In true B-movie fashion, Harry falls for the prime suspect, a mysterious woman named Montana, (Elizabeth Key, blonde and then some). The best part is that none of this is taken with a grain of salt. George Merriweather is the genius behind this project.

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