Bikini Summer 3: South Beach Heat Reviews

Bearing no discernible relationship to BIKINI SUMMER (1991) and BIKINI SUMMER 2 (1992), this T&A comedy has no more substance than the bathing suits it exists to show off. Jamie (Heather-Elizabeth Parkhurst) is a makeup artist preparing for an upcoming televised bikini contest sponsored by Mermaid cosmetics. Hector (Rolando Millet), the show's director, tries to persuade her to become a contestant as well. While shy Jamie demurs, Hector's insistence leads to what appears to be a compromising situation witnessed by Jamie's rich boyfriend, Scotty (Michael Golden). On the advice of his lawyer, Scotty hires private detective Lance Burke (Tony Pacheco) to spy on her and see if she is being faithful. Trying to make her feel better and forget Scotty, Jamie's friends Bink (Tonya Goodson) and Dev (Tiffany Turner) drag her out to a Miami nightclub, where she is romanced by artist Pierre (Jean-Luc Dabi) When she resists his seductions, he follows her the next day to a party held by Mermaid president Peter Highsmith (Scott Trost). Highsmith also makes a pass at Jamie, who realizes how much she misses Scotty. Pierre and Highsmith are distracted from their infatuations with Jamie by dalliances with Bink and Dev, respectively. Burke presents Scotty with what he says is evidence of Jamie's infidelity, but he recognizes that the costumed figure in the photos is a different woman (in fact, Bink making love to Pierre). Scotty goes to the contest to apologize to Jamie, only to find that she reluctantly has entered the contest to fill in for a missing girl. The two make up, and Jamie wins the contest. BIKINI SUMMER 3 earns one star for honesty: viewers expecting to see acres of female flesh clad in bikinis and less won't be disappointed. That aside, this is the kind of movie that makes one long for the relative integrity of hard-core pornography. "You want someone with plastic parts, not me," Jamie pleads when Hector tries to enlist her in the show, an irony considering that star Heather-Elizabeth Parkhurst (also billed as associate producer) has the look of a woman whose assets have been surgically enhanced. No one in the film displays talent at anything other than the ability to stand on two feet. And while this sort of masturbatory aid is generally below criticism, it's worth noting that Rolando Millet's performance as a mincing Latino homosexual is broad enough to make Anita Bryant wince. (Extensive nudity, sexual situations, adult situations, substance abuse, profanity.)