In the world of direct to DVD movies there are two options – bad bad or fun bad.  Thankfully the dual titled film debut of former WWE Diva Trish Stratus is a fun bad movie.

Make no mistake, its bad.  The plot is by the numbers and anything that passes for a plot twist can be seen so far in advance the disc isn’t even in the player yet.  In fact when you buy this DVD (probably at WalMart) the plot twists are revealed while you’re in the check out line.

Trish Stratus plays Jules, one of three bounty hunters along with Chase (the comic relief) and Ridley (the older dad type character but not).  They aren’t that great and it takes two of them to take down the first bail jumper they find.  Its not a bad thing to have the heroes struggle to take down a bad guy.  Its classic wrestling booking.  However, if they narrowly defeat the first bad guy then how will they defeat the stronger bad guys later on?

The fight scenes are fun, and any time Trish Stratus is on screen there is definitely some fan service.  Schoolgirl outfits, leather, and for some reason hospital gowns.  That one I don’t quite understand, but it must do it for someone out there.  The only thing I can guess is that this is to distract from the huge moral and financial question hanging over the bounty hunters decisions.

The bounty hunter group gives up one of their targets so they can go after a bigger target that’s worth $100,000.  Split three ways, and ignoring the repeated numbers anytime 3 and 10 are involved, this leaves them with about 33 grand each.  Then you have to subtract taxes of course and each person is down to 25 maybe even 20 grand.  Yet they’re all planning what they can do with this money.  Living large!  Or, just getting by.  An extra 30 grand for most people would lead to fixing things at home, fixing or getting a new car, maybe paying off some debt.  It would not under any terms equate being set for life.  It would, however, equate letting someone go free so any one of us can get that cash.  I would sell out a co-worker if it meant thirty thousand in my pocket.  Wouldn’t think twice about it either.

Which means that later in the movie it makes no sense for the team to debate whether or not to sell someone out for a third of a million each.  When your morals are already sold out for one price, a higher price will of course be equally if not more acceptable.  Its not even a matter of not wanting to work with a criminal.  Its some strange moral question which makes no sense with their previous actions.

Even the filming is strange.  Lots of language, some bare breasts, and then… off screen violence?  What little on screen blood that there is has to be the fakest blood this side of a high school A/V club.  Kids with a dream and their dad’s old video camera can make better blood, thus any movie should have good looking blood.  No excuse.

However, the worse the worse out of all of this is the dramatic finale.  See, Trish works in a strip club, but she’s not a stripper.  Because she has morals.  Then she strips down to her underwear and lets a criminal go away for more money.  While in the strip club one of the strippers does her signature move, a split.  How a move that nearly all strippers can do is a signature is beyond me.  What is even further beyond me is how this also becomes Trish’s signature move.  Trish, who wasn’t a stripper, and who didn’t perform this move earlier, now executes this move in the movie’s dramatic finale.

Writing 101 says that if a gun will be in the finale then you must have the gun on the first page of the story.  It also helps when the gun is connected to someone in the finale.  Maybe even owned by someone in the finale.  Having Trish hit this move, which she did not do earlier, is akin to the gun in the above example magically appearing from another state.

All of that said, its a fun dumb movie.  Trish works well as an action star.  There are some good fun fights in the movie.  A few good jokes and humor.  As a try out for Trish Stratus:  Action Star it works.  Hopefully she’ll go on to bigger and better movies.  As its own movie though, please don’t bring any expectations into this.