Bitch Slap might more aptly be named Bitch Punch, Bitch Kick, or Bitch Groin Bite, for it is an incredibly over the top male fantasy grindhouse of bitches, boobs, blasts, and blood. A has a simple plot but packed with pun filled angry dialogue and fight scenes that had me believe everyone got really hurt. Rick Jacobson has gone out of his way to write and direct a whirling sexploitation farce because like Russ Meyer once taught, chick flicks are fun and anything girl-on-girl is a go. He mostly succeeds by trying a little too hard to be campy and although it was hard to keep abreast of the crass packed angry, angry dialogue much, I have to credit the director with it. But the show belongs to the incredible show by the gravity-defying supervixens.

When the trio are not doing slow motion cleavage shots they are scrapping like boxers because each babe is after something different and is willing the ultimate cat fight; one for a bacteriological weapon, another for diamonds, and one for an antique weapon. They are surprisingly good performances by all the leads. Hel played by Erin Cummings (“Spartacus: Blood and Sand”) thinks she’s the leader of the pack and the red head dominatrix tries to bring some order for she is an operative agent handled by Mr. Phoenix in a small part played by Kevin Sorbo (“Hercules The Legendary Journeys”). Camero (America Olivo) is an angry drug crazed lesbian who constantly thinks she’s being betrayed. Hiding in a nunnery she is caught carnal with another nun in a confessional booth and ends up in prison where she meets Hel.

Hel recruits the simple stripper Trixie (Julie Voth) in order to seduce the weapons selling gangster Gage (Michael Hurst) who will only fall for the uber-hot Trixie. The three ladies kidnap Gage and drive him out to the desert to find where all the items are buried. They are pursued by a nasty Hot Wire (William Gregory Lee) and his sidekick yo-yo spider-blade throwing girlfriend Kinki (Minae Noji), who bears a striking resemblance to Kill Bill’s Gogo Yubari. Deputy Fuchs (Ron Melendez) shows up to help the trio with their broken down car is mostly just a useless fan for Trixie’s peeler act.

Jacobson and many of the cast and crew have done a lot of work on TV shows like Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess and they all obviously thought it would be a blast to do a very different hardcore girl fight movie. The hand to hand combat is brutal instead of the cat fight and mud wrestling that you might expect, courtesy of Zoe Bell the famed stunt co-ordinator also in town at the Toronto International Film Festival for Drew Barrymore’s Whip It.

The Music composition by John Graham (The Unborn II) is colourfully strong with suitable metal through much of it, reminding me of the music from Conan the Barbarian, but fruity and jazzed up. In particular, the opening and closing credits are an interesting, beautiful barrage of imagery from history’s classics of sexy girl power. Although he has worked primarily in TV, cinematographer Stuart Asbjornsen does a good job with what he has to work with. The director decided to shoot in green screen for certain scenes because of its B-movie effect but largely for practical issues around problems with shooting locations. The desert scenes are real and somewhat uninteresting but every other scene has colourfully far-out backgrounds which would only work in a movie such as this, which will not appeal to everyone.

The film exploits with jammed in references everywhere, pun line jabs, and Austin Powers silliness. But it has a sense of humour with itself as when Trixie sort of pole dances with her shovel instead of digging; and the girls angry with each other, pretty much a constant, are standing beside convenient pails of water and the wet T-shirt water fight begins and there’s an incredibly passionate girl-on-girl scene that is definitely not suitable for all audiences. There’s some violence against men but only when they actually appear in the movie. But no one’s going to see a movie called Bitch Slap for the guys.