Blondes Have More Guns

Writer-director George Merriweather's proudly crude comedy Blondes Have More Guns parodies erotic crime thrillers like Basic Instinct and largely succeeds, thanks to a very game cast and a nonstop barrage of lowbrow humor. Michael McGaharn stars as a trigger-happy L.A. detective assigned to crack a rash of chainsaw murders; his investigation (such as it is) leads him to a gold-digging femme fatale (Elizabeth Key) and her equally unscrupulous half-sister (Gloria Lusiak). When Harry becomes intimately involved with both women, it's up to his partners--one of whom believes he's a dog--to help him crack the case and find the killer. Borrowing the gags-every-minute approach refined by Airplane! and The Naked Gun series, Blondes isn't as consistently funny as those films, but does manage to be frequently amusing even when a joke bombs (which is fairly often), and should appeal to fans of broad slapstick. --Paul Gaita