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Kathy (Julie Suscinski) is a young nerdy smalltown girl obsessed with
the TV series Chickboxer, in which a girl in tights kicks criminal
butt - so much so that she eventually decides to take karate classes to
become more like her idol, and is so serious about it that she almost
cancels her first date with Billy (James L.Edwards), a boy from her school
she has been in love with, like, forever. Then Julia (Melanie Todd), a
girl from Kathy's karate class, disappears, and Julia, in Chickboxer-mode,
decides to investigate. She soon learns that her karate teacher Colt
Jackson (James Black) and his two henchmen, Knuckles (Ken Jarosz) and Herb
(Tom Hoover) are behind her disappearance, but not only that, they also
deal in drugs and run a prostitution ring, have the police under control
and want to frame the mayor (Dennis K.Murphy). And soon enough, Kathy and
Billy find themselves on the run from the baddies, too. Kathy figures in a
situation like this there's only one thing left to do - to call Greta
Holtz (Michelle Bauer), the woman who plays Chickboxer on television ... Greta
Holtz is on the verge of a big career decision when Kathy calls - whether
or not to go into porn. She has little she can say to help Kathy, but
still does so in a perfectly bitchy way ... Without Chickboxer's help,
Kathy relies on nothing but Billy, his ex-cop dad (Bogdan Pecic) and her
karate skills - and somehow everything ends happily nevertheless, thanks
to things Kathy has learned from the Chickboxer TV series. And
Greta Holtz, you may ask? Well, she has decided to do porn ... For
many (or actually the few who have seen it) Chickboxer is the worst
film of all times ... and I just happen to disagree. Sure, the film is
directed devoid of any and all elegance or even the least bit of
imagination, the script is stupid as hell, the entire cast lacks talent,
the action scenes lack any spark at all, the martial arts are not even
basic, the then contemporary outfits and hairdoes are cringe-inducing, and
the lack of budget painfully shows. In other words, the film looks like
a cheap joke - and that's exactly the point I want to make, it is a joke,
and is carried by enough (self-)irony to come off as one, which means of
course all humour is intentional. And in the context of a bad movie-comedy
even the below average performances and the bargain basement action
somehow makes sense. That all said, I'm sure not everybody will find as
much to laugh in this movie as me, and I've certainly laughed more in
other films, but at least the film has some redeeming qualities.
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