Oct 02 2008
THE BEVERLY HILLS 90210 CONSPIRACY (DIMPLES MOVIE REVIEW)
THE PLOTDIMPLES opens on a cop with an extremely scarred face investigating the murder of two young people. The two were killed just as they were about to make their first ever sex tape, which really has to suck. Not that I’d ever make my own sex tape…maybe. After about 10-15 minutes we find out that this is all a movie that one of our characters Henry is making. Of course the name of his movie is, you guessed it: Dimples.
Then the movie introduces a bunch of new characters: the virginal girl who isn’t sure she wants to sleep with her boyfriend, the sex crazed friend who works as a cyber sex girl and keeps dildos in her bathroom, the filmmakers, the kind of jerky boyfriend and another friend who irritates everyone by speaking in French, though she’s obviously not French.
The mangy little crew heads off into the woods for some rave party where they plan on camping in a humongous RV. They stop at a small grocery store on the side of the road where they see a creepy guy masturbating in the window. He later follows them outside where the boyfriend character beats the shit out of him for doing nothing except really looking at them.
Then they start to the party, get a flat tire and the virgin girl thinks she sees someone. While everyone else argues and bitches that their phones don’t work, she follows a strange little girl into the woods.
THOUGHTS
Oh god, someone should have told me Randy Spelling was in this movie. Oh god, someone should have told me Gabrielle Cateris was in this movie. I always wondered what happened to those people, er not really. In case you didn’t know, Randy Spelling is the younger brother of Tori Spelling and son of Aaron Spelling. Aaron produced “Beverly Hills 90210”, which starred? Tori and Gabrielle Cateris. The Spelling connection is solidified!
There’s also a nice little “cameo” from April Tuna. No one will get that reference, but for those of us that do, it was definitely a nice little surprise to see this actress still getting work and still with her unusual looks. On another note the guy playing Henry kept irritating me because in the back of my mind, I knew that I recognized him from somewhere. And then it hit me that he actually played…Henry on “What I Like About You”, oddly enough starring Jenni Garth from 90210. It’s a conspiracy I tell you, a conspiracy! Sorry for that rant, let’s just move on shall we?
Obviously Dimples didn’t impress me much, considering I could only remember the name of one character. The virginal girl irritated me so much that if she were my friend, I would have left her ass on the side of the road. Seriously, does anyone actually have a friend like this? Maybe my friends just fall too much into the drunken whore side of things.
It also took me halfway through the movie to realize these people were supposed to be high school students. Really? One guy doesn’t have a cell phone because his parents took it away for spending too much money, yet give him access to a massive RV. I’m not even going to touch that.
Dimples takes an insane 49 minutes before anyone dies and that death is extremely lame. It never really gets going and it never really seems to go anywhere, despite the fact that it’s 90 minutes long. If you find it odd that this review was so long for a movie I obviously didn’t like, just chalk it up to the 90210 conspiracy…
I will say that this one has a twist ending that I didn’t see coming, mainly because I wasn’t really paying attention. If you see it, let me know if this really was a twist or something I should have noticed early on!
If you find one, make sure you stop back by and let me know what the hell was going on.
For those who want to know: It turns out that Henry videotaped everything and the cops from the beginning were watching it the whole time. They blame the virginal girl because they can’t find any proof and start carting her away. They find proof that she was abused as child in a house hidden away in the woods. It starts to end the movie as she was the killer and then cut back to a weird scene of the creepy masturbating guy. The confusing thing is that it may/may not have been all in her imagination anyway.
Hey HQ, great site, found it while stumbling around google looking for an explanation to this movie I finished watching.
I guess they leave it for the audience to decide that really happened, but since it doesn’t solve any questions, it makes it way too open ended.
I got a shock from the demon in the movie, that was a scary surprise even though it was foreshadowed. It almost feels like the directer didn’t know how to end this, so decided to leave it as a pitchfork ending.
I recognized the mother Shannon (?) from 90210, and it was cool you were able to let us know about the other special appearances if you can call them that.
I had no problems with the acting, and it wasn’t a BAD movie, but probably remains much too open for people’s likings.
Open ended is a great way to describe it and probably the words I should have used. Now that you mention it, it did feel like the director probably wasn’t sure how to end it and probably not the writer either. I assume the writer had a different version of the final film in mind.