Year:
1985-1990
Studio:
ADV Films, Sunrise
Feature:
3/5
DVD:
0/5
Kei (voice of Pamela Lauer) and Yuri (voice of Jessica Calvello) are
elite agents of the WWWA. The concept is two scantily clad gunbunnies
solve crimes while always
managing to cause a stupendous amount of destruction. Kei is the tech
girl and Yuri the hand-to-hand combat expert.
In their ship The
Lovely Angel and with the help of their intelligent pet Mughi, the duo
at times bumble through cases and avoid gruesome death and
dismemberment through sheer combat skills and womanly wiles.
This set of five volumes contains 10 episodes of a series plus three
feature films. In general I found the series ok though a bit juvenile
at times. The first two films are good while the last one was a
letdown. Overall it's not a bad collection and it is mostly
entertaining. There are almost no extras and they are on the first two
DVDs.
Episode 1: Prison
Uprising! or I Hate People with Grudges!
The inmates of an asteroid prison take over and hold the warden
hostage. The Lovely Angels are going in to save the warden.
Episode 2: Not Thanks! A Totally Wasted Halloween Party!
The Tactical Robot Weapon is accidentally activated goes on a
rampage. Kei and Yuri must stop the robot before it destroys the
city.
Episode 3: The God's Challenge
A mining base is destroyed. The Dirty Pair nvestigate the possible ties
to a death cult.
Episode 4: But They're Only Children
A group of spoiled rich kids take over a military base. Kei and Yuri
are sent to stop them before the army is used to recapture the base.
Episode 5: Nobody's Doing It Anymore
The girls go to a Las Vegas-style gambling space station to convince
another agent to stop gambling on Meteor, the most addictive game in
the universe.
Episode 6: Wedding Panic!
Yuri almost marries handsome mobster Carrine while searching for the
mobs' secret counterfeiting facility.
Episode 7: Revenge of the Muscle Lady!
There's a new drug on the streets: hustle, short for hardened muscles.
It creates muscle-bound insanely-aggressive people. Kei and Yuri
investigate because hustle distribution is controlled by Scary Sandra,
a former WWWA trainee who gave the two girls a hard time in camp.
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Episode 8: Sleeping Beauty
Kei and Yuri resurrect a 20-year old case when the last survivor of a
passenger liner turns up frozen in a hibernation chamber of an escape
pod.
Episode 9: Red Eyes, A Sign from Hell
The girls are sent to a 3rd world country torn by civil war. A
mysterious group of five commandos threaten to sabotage the peace talks
and the girls have to find and stop them.
Episode 10: We're Space Truckers!
Space truckers are disappearing left and right. Kei and Yuri go
undercover to find out who's behind the murders. Perhaps it's Universal
Incorporated, a conglomerate buying out all the independent truckers.
Volume 3: Dirty Pair - Project Eden
Project Eden is a full-length movie with Kei (still voiced by Pan
Lauer) and Yuri (this time voiced by Allison L. Sumrall) investigating
sabotage at some refineries on a distant world. The duo stumble on a
plot by a mad scientist to genengineer the species that will succeed
humanity.
There's also a dashing thief, Carlson (voice of David Matranga), with
whom Kei falls in love with. Explosions, madness and mayhem ensue.
Fairly well done movie with serious parts, big-time action, and the
pair going scantiliy clad (I mean, even more scantily clad) and
barefoot for 1/3rd of the movie.
Volume 4: Dirty Pair - Flight 005 Conspiracy
Pam Lauer and Allison Sumrall return as the voice of Kei and Yuri. The
Dirty Pair are sent on a dual mission: find out why Flight 005, which
exploded with 300 passengers on board, has had no insurance claimants
from relatives of the deceased. While they're in the system they also
need to find Professor Dornenschtern and his family.
I think this is a feature film, though short at less than an hour. The
graphics are good and the mystery is suitably convoluted and
intertwined between the two missions. There's the usual Dirty Pair
firefights and death and massive property damage. I thought this was a
fairly good feature.
Volume 5: Dirty Pair -
Another hour-long feature, this time Kei (Lauer) and Yuri (Sumrall) go
to a barely habitable planet looking for a missing girl, Missiny
(Hilary Haag). They meet resistance from Security Chief Samara (Shawn
Taylor) and Oran (John Gremillion), who is head of the corporation that
controls the planet.
This is an unremarkable adventure. The mystery is solved off-screen
which is a bit unsatisfying. There are lots of dream sequences which
keeps things confusing to the viewer. The whole resolution is kind of
sad because everybody dies.
On another note, this mission uses Mughi (Brett Weaver) a lot more than
usual. There is also Kei and Yuri nudity which I believe is the only
time in the DVD set. It doesn't make up for the weak story though it
does come close.
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