Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City (1991)

This post won’t be too long. I can tell you that going into it. I don’t have too much to say about this week’s movie. Why is that? I don’t remember too much of this week’s movie. I watched it. I know I sat down to watch it. It happened in front of my eyes. But it was such a mess of a movie that it’s just hard to know exactly what happened, when it happened, or even why it happened. I can’t answer too many of those questions. And there wasn’t enough to latch onto that I could use as the basis to a post that I could maybe put some thought into while bringing other Sunday “Bad” Movies into the discussion.

Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City was a shot-on-video movie directed by Todd Sheets. It was released in 1991. When I scheduled it for Sunday “Bad” Movies, I didn’t realize that it was a sequel. There was a movie called Bimbos B.C. that Todd Sheets directed a year before. Seeing that one first would have probably given me a little more insight into what I was about to watch. I’m not entirely sure about that, though. If it had been as all over the place as this one, I’d probably be in the same boat trying to write a post about it. I wouldn’t know what I was going to write until the words were going from my brain, down my nerves, through my fingers, and onto the blank (not blank right now, I guess) Microsoft Word document.

The out-of-context feeling of Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City should have been helped by the first ten or fifteen minutes acting as a summary of Bimbos B.C. The first chunk of the movie was clips from the film that preceded it. There was no hint that it was from an earlier movie until the end of the clips had a character look into the camera and mention that the audience should return for the sequel. That made me wonder if I was watching a sequel, and I was.

All I can really say about the story is that there was a villain with robot minions trying to take over Armageddon City. It was up to the bimbos, all women except for one male bimbo and another guy working with them, to stop the robot overlord. The only problem was that the robot overlord guy teamed up with the villain from the first movie. Or did he? I’m not entirely sure. They laughed a bunch and, next thing I knew, they were riding bikes and pushing each other. It didn’t really matter that much. The bimbos were successful in the end. They saved Armageddon City. I’m not sure how much there was to save, though. It was a place called Armageddon City.

The only character that truly stood out from the hero team was Pringle (Todd Sheets). Any of the memorable stuff from the bimbos side of things came from their interactions with him, and what he did as a result of their interactions with him. He was brought into Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City through a walkie-talkie conversation. A bimbo wanted him to go to Armageddon City. He was guarding an empty field. They ordered him. He pushed back. It was more comedic than I’m making it sound and kind of worked.

Another standout moment for Pringle was when he investigated a parking garage. There are a lot of locations throughout Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City that felt like they could be filmed in without having to spend money on permits or anything. Like, who would come at you for filming in a parking garage stairwell? Anyway, Pringle searched through the parking garage and stumbled on a xenomorph. A low-budget xenomorph recreation might be a better description. There was a thing that Todd Sheets did with his leg to comically show how surprised and scared he was that worked in a silly sort of way. Then there was the part where he broke the fourth wall and said the xenomorph was in the wrong movie. It kind of worked for what this movie was.

The last bit of Pringle magic came near the end of Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City. Another character, who I assume was from Bimbos B.C., showed up to get in on the action. The bimbos told him he was too late and should save it for the next sequel. Pringle picked the guy up and carried him off down an alley. It wasn’t a major thing for Pringle, but it was a nice little comedic beat well in the wheelhouse of the rest of the movie that kind of capped it off at the end.

Other than that stuff, mostly revolving around Pringle, there wasn’t much of Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City that stuck with me. The bimbos, themselves, weren’t all that memorable. I couldn’t really tell you anything about any of them. One of them seemed like a leader, but so did another one, so I don’t know who the leader really was. I can tell it wasn’t the leader from the first movie, thanks to that opening chunk that was clips from Bimbos B.C. There was a male bimbo, but I also don’t know much about him. Oh well.

Some of the movies I watch for Sunday “Bad” Movies are memorable. They stick with me. I want to watch them time and time again. I do watch them time and time again. Others just kind of happen. I watch them. I don’t take much away from them. I move on. Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City was from that second kind of movie. I’m sure there are people out there who enjoy it a lot more than me. The comedy kind of worked, making for something a little more fun than it could have been. It was the mess of anything tangible to latch onto, story-wise, that lost me. And that’s why this post is kind of a bunch of words without a clear focus. Just like the movie.

Now for some notes that are a little more focused:

• Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City was the second Todd Sheets film covered for Sunday “Bad” Movies, following Nightmare Asylum (week 134).
• Nine actors from Nightmare Asylum (week 134) were in Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City. They were Jenny Admire, Jerry Angell, Deric Bernier, Mike Hellman, Matthew Lewis, Charles Monroe, Veronica Orr, Todd Sheets, and J.T. Taube.
• Have you seen Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City? Can you tell me what it’s actually about? Have you seen Bimbos B.C.? Tell me your thoughts on Twitter or in the comments.
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• This movie kind of detoured from the horror a bit, which I wasn’t expecting. Next week, we’ll be back into horror, though. I’ll be checking out a classic from the early 2000s. Okay, maybe not a classic. I’ll be checking out Feardotcom. See you next week when I’ve got another post for you to check out.