LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Wizard-8 The packaging for "D.E.B.S." makes it look like it's a slam-bang girls with guns movie with plenty of action. In actual fact, it's anything but. Although the movie deals with young and hot-looking women who work for a secret agent organization, there isn't a terrible amount of action. Instead, the movie concentrates more on a lesbian relationship that forms between one of the agents and the bad gal she and her fellow agents are pursuing. Sounds promising, but sadly this aspect of the movie never gets beyond a PG-13 level. As it turns out, no aspect of the remaining portions of the movie are particularly well done. The development of the other characters is very poor, with no other characters really standing out. The poor writing extends to the story as well; the secret agent organization is lacking detail, and there are some incomprehensible moments like how the female villain gets away when she's cornered two-thirds into the movie. It certainly doesn't help that the entire package is surprisingly shoddy, from the film crew being seen in reflections on windows to some absolutely awful special effects. In fact, the whole movie looks and feels like a low budget children's TV show like "Power Rangers Dino Charge". You'd be better off watching an episode of that show instead of this movie, since although the show is just as dumb as this movie, it at least offers some good action (and any episode only runs 30 minutes instead of being feature length.) To sum up, it's very easy to see why this movie was barely released to theaters.

Bob_Zerunkel Nobody applauds the story, the plot, the character development, the directing, the action. Everybody seems to like the part where two nubile young innocents (played by two women in their mid-20s) explore their sexuality.And that is why some are applauding the casting. They found two hot chicks who want to kiss each other because, wow, that outfit is so hot.The Internet is full of sites that have old women posing as underage girls, and the Internet is full of hot chicks who want to kiss each other. Those sites are also devoid of plot, character development, etc.See the movie if you want to see hot women in their 20s kiss each other Avoid this movie if you have any other reason for watching movies.

packoftwenty More typical propaganda from 'God's chosen people', who own the entire film industry... Fifty years ago this film would never have been made, let alone get past the censors. What is it trying to tell you? That being a lesbian is perfectly 'normal'. Just like every other film made in the past twenty years, and every other TV show, and every magazine, and every book. And who owns the film industry? Who owns the TV channels? Who owns the publishing industry? 'God's chosen people', who think that YOU are mere 'cattle', put on earth to do the bidding of 'God's chosen people' (who I can't name for fear of being incarcerated - you see, 'God's chosen people' also introduced new laws, which we, the people, never got to vote for or against, which make it 'illegal' to tell the truth about 'God's chosen people' - i.e. it's illegal to criticise them...)

hnt_dnl I expected D.E.B.S. (2004) to be a really silly parody of spy movies and teen flicks with tons of references to pop culture, kind of like the NAKED GUN films. Surprisingly, it is really kind of neither, although it leans a bit more on the "teen" side with situations reminiscent of what one would see in teen-oriented movies, like teen angst, peer pressure, popularity, and cliques. The squad of spy girls in the film are obviously not teenagers (I mean in real life), and I guess it shouldn't matter since that is just a cover and they only interact within the girls at the D.E.B.S. school and with their superiors. Yet it is kind of distracting as I expected these girls to at least remind me of teenagers; they all seemed a bit too adult for me to believe they were real teens; they were just 20-somethings (a couple looked closer to 30!) dressed in schoolgirl outfits. Also, the spy angle is underplayed as well, with only slight scenes of fake-looking guns, CGI gadgetry, and the typical "chief-relaying-orders-to-agents" moments early on. What D.E.B.S. really is...is a love story! And a very well done one at that.The love story is between the main characters, D.E.B. Amy (played by the beautiful and refreshing Sara Foster) and world-class criminal Lucy (the stunningly gorgeous and hot Jordana Brewster). What I like about the lesbian love story is that it is done very tastefully and sincerely, with genuine sparks and chemistry between Foster and Brewster. It could have easily been portrayed as just a lustfest between 2 such stunning beauties, but it was not. It was really sweet and charming.But that's the problem. The love story was so good, and the parody so poor that they felt like they should have just been 2 different movies. It actually does TRY to be a parody with some fairly humorous moments sprinkled throughout it's running time, but the parody overall was very flat and so underdone that it all just seemed uneasy. While the love story was interesting, the "professions" of the lead characters didn't ring true for me. Lucy didn't come across as being a criminal mastermind or deadly and Amy didn't really show any signs that she was a soon-to-be top notch secret agent. They just seemed like two regular women that were into each other. Their conversations were definitely intriguing and well-written, but they should have been in an entirely different movie.The supporting cast is a mixed bag. Jill Ritchie (as D.E.B Janet) pretty much steals the movie playing the (supposedly) not-so-bright girl hiding Amy's secret and I found her to actually rise above the material and deliver a knockout comedic performance. Jimmi Simpson is underused and funny also as Lucy's right-hand man Scud, and the ever-reliable Holland Taylor comes through as D.E.B. commandant Ms. Petrie, showing the young girls how a pro does it. The weakest links acting-wise for me were Meagan Good (as D.E.B. squad leader Max) and Devon Aoki (as thick-accented, hard-to-understand D.E.B. Dominique). Good was extremely wooden and rather unconvincing as the "smart" D.E.B. and Aoki was just annoying to listen to and treated as simply a "sex addict". And their characters really needed to be better and more fleshed out to help this film be better.A lot of reviews have compared this to CHARLIE'S ANGELS, maybe on the surface, but it reminded me more of movies like CLUELESS and MEAN GIRLS, without the wit and bite of those classic modern teen films. The "spy" parts, such as they are, just feel thrown in to make the movie seem like a riff on spy movies, but it doesn't have the feeling of a "spy" flick at all. It could just as easily be a teen romantic drama. The love story is daring and excellently done, but that's about it.