Simply Perfect

Powerful

Admirable film.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

BIKINI MODEL ACADEMY is a truly Z-grade independent production that I found embarrassing to watch. It's about a couple of kids who decide to stage a bikini contest and as such tries to be your typical Hollywood teen comedy. Unfortunately instead of being raucous this is simply ridiculous with bad, well, everything, the acting being notably poor. The only reason anyone would want to see this is to see what happened to the careers of a couple of old timers (Morgan Fairchild and Gary Busey), but they're only present in very small cameo scenes.

No movie ever made has influenced me more than this classic. I had the honor of doing a play version of it about 5 years ago. I had seen the film thousands of times, had loved it, but I never really knew what it meant.During the course of the production, I suddenly felt alive. I felt that I wasn't having enough fun. I felt that I wasn't doing enough in my life. Crazy things, like kissing my mother or my father. I hadn't really hugged one of them in a while. It makes you think. It's more of a thinking person's film than a mere Christmas film. If you think it's just a Christmas film, I insist you watch it again and again, until you get the message.That black kid who plays Benji gives the finest performance of his career, in one of the most difficult characters ever portrayed. A character all of us are familiar with...a person looking to find himself/herself. It's the great struggle for finding what it is in life you really want to do. Benji teaches us so lessons throughout the film and in the end he teaches us the most important lesson of all, that life, although a long and winding road, truly is (for lack of a better word) wonderful...

I had heard a lot of negative things about this movie, but despite this I chose to watch this movie. The movie itself is pretty strange, and extremely illogical, but with a movie title like "Bikini Model Academy" what can you expect besides beautiful girls in Bikinis.The fact that Gary Busey is in this movie makes it even better. I also love the fact that the only actors that are advertised on the cover are Gary Busey and Morgan Fairchild, and none of the actual main characters. This is marketing at it's finest and I fully condone it! I would highly recommend this one to anyone who is looking for a strange,but weirdly good film about modeling. This movie is truly a curveball, but you will be blown away!

Two friends kills their latest Marihuana crop and thus loose their girls who are portrayed as simple gold diggers. While eating some pot cake they get the "brilliant" idea to create a bikini modeling school. Busey as their mentor tells them to create a business-plan, the 3 stage plan is "get girls". Failure to attract girls/"students" forces them to pay students to attend. The comedy is completely lost and what remains is a sad awkward mess. Gary Busey is terrible as their "mentor" and just sad to watch.This movie is so below par and it fails on pretty much every aspect. The only thing it has going for it is girls in bikini, and that seems to be the very idea of selling this sorry excuse of a movie. Do yourself a favor and spend your time and money on something else.