Asteroid Vixens is a comedy sci-fi that according to IMDB was written and directed by Felicity Yeung (White Slaves of K-Town). It doesn't shy away from female nudity, with almost every scene in this 90 minute film having women scantily dressed, half naked, or indeed fully naked. Trying to piece this together is a loose plot that mainly succeeds due to some amusing dialogue between the film's two main characters.
Xex (Kate Ly Johnston - Feral Female) is a fembot, who alongside a floating robot A.I, has travelled to Earth in their spaceship to abduct beautiful women and impregnate them with embryos of hybrid humanoids. Their mission sees them fighting off would be adversaries, while travelling around the globe across time and space looking for suitable candidates.
This sexploitation indie B-movie revels in its purposely cheap looking sets and features no end of female nudity. Despite this there was a lot of variation with scenes set in many different locations. This was almost an anthology of sorts, lots and lots of different things going on, with the lead characters having a slight Mystery Science Theater 3000 feel to their scenes. These were the best parts of the movie, with the space ship represented externally as an obviously CG creation, and internally with a smallish room covered in foil. Computer screens and read-outs are obviously just bits of paper stuck to the walls rather than actual props, and the impregnation beam is a very bright and artificial looking CG effect. I loved the A.I, represented on screen by what appears to be an upside down plastic bowl suspended from the ceiling by a string, with foil strips hanging off of it. This was by far my favourite character, and the scenes on the ship were my favourite moments. Neither of the two characters speak out loud, with it being stated it is all via telepathic communication. Their conversations are almost nonsensical, with both characters going on about the things they are trying to do. They were all universally entertaining, with much of the comedy coming from their discussions. The A.I has a text to speech sound to it, making what they speak about all the more amusing. A special mention to the couple of interview scenes here also, they gave me a real feel of classic parody news show The Day Today with the reporters disinterested delivery.
Most of the film takes the form of different scenes of naked young women hanging around with each other. There are no sex scenes thankfully, but instead you get girls dancing, having baths or showers on their own or with others. There are occasional scenes inserted that have a more traditional film type feel. One of the core side plots being Bouvier (archive footage with her playing a film version of herself) trying to rescue her twin sister who is one of the 'millions' of people that the aliens have abducted. Other plot based scenes included one set in the ancient past that features the legendary Lloyd Kaufman as High Priest, and one set at a party whose male guests all appear unwanted by the girls there. The plot is barebones enough that there did become a moment where I began to wish there had been more to what was going on, with the final third of the film beginning to outstay its welcome ever so slightly. I would be lying if I said I didn't like the frequently trippy visuals, and I also appreciated how well this all was edited together into a cohesive whole, despite it featuring essentially random and unrelated scenes. Despite the very high amount of nudity, it managed to never feel tacky, something that sex scenes would have tipped it over into feeling like.
I liked the B-movie vibe with Asteroid Vixens, especially the parts set on the space ship, and it did feel like something that was different to the norm. I did wish for more of a connective story to all the nakedness (something that even happens in the end credits, with the end credits painted onto a naked dancing woman of course). Asteroid Vixens won't be for everyone, but I personally enjoyed the trippy and non-serious vibe, the integration of space ship and random scenes, and the humorously cheap looking set design.
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