Hairspray, bare tits, and overblown action sequences are the order of the day in this oeuvre of Andy Sidaris, a former TV sports director who even won an Emmy for his coverage of the 1968 Olympics, until the home video revolution of the 1980s and a heureka moment of casting Playboy playmates as actresses gave him an opportunity to live out his dreams of being a real action film director. Honing in on a simple but effective formula he succinctly dubbed BBB (Bullets, Bombs, Babes), Sidaris’ 12 movies were very cheap, nonsensical, and borderline incompetent, but have a purity of purpose and a spark of demented genius that cannot be denied. “Hard Ticket to Hawaii” from 1987 shines brightest among his craziness and serves as a great entry point to his colorful BBB repertoire. The plot here is both needlessly convoluted and non-existent at the same time but who cares. If blonde secret agents going over their daily debriefing topless in a bubblebath isn’t enough for you, there’s also plenty of exotic Hawaiian scenery, a ferociously funny contaminated snake on the loose, a razor-blade frisbee kill, remote control helicopters transporting diamonds, motorcycles flying through walls, and a skateboarding gunman taking cover behind a sex doll gets blown to pieces with a bazooka. Altogether, this triple B-movie is a perfect example of what made the 80s so damn… 80s. Tasteless, silly, shiny, loud and gratuitous. Starring the real life Ken-doll from „The Bold and the Beautiful” Ronn Moss, Playboy playmates Dona Speir (March 1984) and Hope Marie Carlton (July 1985), and a variety of other simply attractive people kicking ass, blowing stuff up and doing sexy things romantically. *Restoration courtesy of Malibu Bay Films and the American Genre Film Archive.* **Attention!** In addition to the Estonian dubbing, the film also has English subtitles.

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