Former porn star Marilyn Chambers plays a former porn star named Marilyn Chambers who finds that directing porn videos is too demanding in this negligible skin flick.
Marilyn is approached by former porn actress Judy (Amy Lynn Baxter), whose vegetarian cafe, "Gentle Nibbles," can't buy a customer. Faced with eviction in four days by dial-a-villain Rank (Paul Borghese), Judy's cousin Ron (John Altamura) suggests using Marilyn's sex-industry connections to revamp
the cafe's image. Marilyn's redesign is a matter of moving tables around and hanging a large banner over the door bearing the subtle legend "BIKINI bistro." Oh, and making the girls strip and squeeze into tiny shreds of mylar. She herself dresses somewhat more demurely. Thank God.
And voila, we have the titular establishment, where skimpily-clad waitresses toss salads on customers' heads, spill soups du jour in laps, and bring large, rare steaks to militant vegetarians. Marilyn guarantees the restaurants' success by schmoozing food critic Colin de la Pez (Bill Bresnan, who
sounds like a Brooklyn cabbie on Quaaludes) in her own inimitable way just as the local repressive guardians of morality arrive with picket signs and horny sons. Happy endings are assured when Floyd the Bartender (Salvatore Thomas), who hides the take from the till in his pants, is exposed, and
the greasy Mr. Rank falls in love with a protester.
The cast consists of moonlighting adult-film denizens and a few slobs who couldn't hope to rise to that level of emotive excellence. The script has two or three genuine jokes, lobbed like flat tennis balls by the performers. In addition to copious display of artificially-enhanced breasts, some
full-frontal female nudity and a few sex scenes occur, but the film is so ineptly lit and shot that they lack the erotic appeal of the average beer ad. (Extensive nudity, sexual situations, profanity.) leave a comment
