A lesson in not understanding your target audience.
I’m perplexed by this film. A superhero film starring Kitten Natividad with Golden Age situations and humor, with a relatively high budget for B-movies of the time (2001). Somehow it’s a complete train-wreck. Your target audience for this are fans of the the actresses from appearances in their prime. 30–40 years later though, they are grannies with low hanging breasts and caked on makeup. You want to remember them at their best. To that end, the writers insert a 5–10 min scene of them dreaming and it was just a montage of Kitten Natividad’s pinups. The film would have worked better with Sheri Dawn Thomas, Elizabeth Starr or Logan LaBrent (typecast as various bimbos in the movie) leading the action.
In addition, the technical aspects are amazingly pitiful. Audio cuts in and out. Editing is atrocious using stock elements for cuts (star wipes, clock wipes, fades). The costume of the titular Double-D Avenger is hilariously bad: They literally cut holes in a pair of pantyhose and stuck it around her head while giving her a classic Golden Age female leotard and cape. The end credits enforce the level of ineptitude. William Winckler should have used some content consultants. In comparison, Up Uranus appears as a masterpiece.
However, I can’t give this a failing grade. Winkler created original content. Somehow this falls into an R rating in my head. Golden Age comic situations would normally fall into PG-13 (e.g. The Developing Adventures of Golden Girl) or X (e.g. Big Blue). Overly endowed superheroines will always be appreciated, but they’ve got to be taken 100% seriously. The Double-D Avenger wasn’t.
First screened November 5, 2023 on the Internet Archive.
