DVD Movie Rating for: Barb Wire

Rating for Barb Wire: 2 out of 5 stars , crappy movie with the exception of Pamela Anderson Lee in the shower (15 mins) in the unrated version

Movie Plot of: Barb Wire

Pity the man who gets in her way.

The year is 2017. The United States has been ravaged by the Second American Civil War, and the old Democracy has been overthrown by a tyrannical new group called the Congressional Directorate. Every city in the nation is under martial law except one-Steel Harbor, the last free city. A secluded island of shrinking independence, it is a place marked by chaos and crime, mercenar¬ies and black market warlords.

Forget about the cops. Forget about the government. If you want something done in Steel Harbor, you'd better call Barb Wire.

Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson Lee) is the toughest, most gorgeous, most desirable strong arm in Steel Harbor, and nothing stops her on her quest for good payday. But when the Congressionals take away the only thing she loves, watch out, because Barb is in the mood for a little payback.ln a world with no rules...in a world with no heart...there's only one thing you need to remember.

Don't call her Babe.

About the production

Barb Wire is based on the cult classic Dark Horse Comics series of the same name. "If you look at the covers of the original comic books, " says Mike Richardson, producer of Barb Wire,"the resemblance between Barb and Pamela Anderson Lee is pretty amazing." The Dark Horse comics team also brought the comic book "The Mask" to the big screen with phenomenal success, launching actor Jim Carrey to superstar ranks as the title character.

Pamela Anderson Lee, best known for her six Playboy magazine covers and her roles on television's "Home Improvement" and "Baywatch" ("The most popular television show in the world"), was up to the challenge of a leading movie role. Besides learning kickboxing, how to ride a motorcycle and how to shoot MP5K automatic weapons, Pamela Anderson Lee did her own stunts while dressed in leather corsets and 6-inch spike heels. Pamela Anderson Lee 's nickname on the film set was "Pambo," a reference *Sylvester Stallone's shoot-em-up movie character. Her extraordinary commitment to the role extended to the additian of a permanent "Barbed Wire" tattoo on her upper arm. The Hammerhead Bar is crucial to the setting of the futuristic, post-war, comic book feeling for the film. The seven-level set was the brainchild of award -winning production designer Jean Phillipe Carp (Delicatessen, Johnny Mnemonic), whose crew of 80 builders worked for 6 weeks to construct the set in a former Hughes aircraft factory building in southern California.

The engineering feats pulled off by Carp were rivaled by the stupendous creations of costume designer Barbara Norton, who changed the pink-and-blue "Barb Wire" comic book outfits to the legendary black leather wardrobe that graces Anderson Lee in the film version. Norton relates, "We'd be tying [Pamela Anderson Lee ] into her corset, saying, 'Honey, we don't want to hurt you,' and Pamela Anderson Lee would just say, 'Pull it tighter)"'

DVD Production Details of: Barb Wire

Starring: Pamela Anderson
Director: David Hogan
Encoding: All Regions
Format: Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned, Dolby
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1
Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Studio: Usa Films
DVD Release Date: June 6, 2000
Run Time: 109

Barb Wire DVD Extra Bonus Features

Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Sexy out-takes
Photo gallery

Barb Wire Unrated Laserdisc Edition

Polygram Video, Stereo Surround Sound, Deluxe Wide Screen Version, Extended Play Disc, CLV, running time 109 mins, LTBX, NTSC, 800 639 927-1

Cast of the movie: Barb Wire

• Pamela Anderson .... Barb Wire (as Pamela Anderson Lee)
• Temuera Morrison .... Axel Hood
• Victoria Rowell .... Cora D/Corrina Devonshire
• Jack Noseworthy .... Charlie Kopetski
• Xander Berkeley .... Alexander Willis
• Udo Kier .... Curly
• Andre Rosey Brown .... Big Fatso
• Clint Howard .... Schmitz
• Jennifer Banko .... Spike
• Steve Railsback .... Colonel Pryzer
• Amir Aboulela .... Patron
• Adriana Alexander .... Redhead
• David Andriole .... Goon
• Vanessa Lee Asher .... Emily
• Ron Balicki .... Customs Agent #1
• Candace Kita .... Dancer
• Tony Bill .... Foster
• Alex Bookston .... Man in White Suit
• Gil Borgos .... Old Man
• Mark Collver .... Manny
• Tina Cote .... Woman in Bar #1
• Vinnie Curto .... Aide to Pryzer
• Shelly Desai .... Sharif
• Miles Dougal .... Goon
• Ken Forsgren .... Greaseball
• Darrel Heath .... Soldier in Flashback
• Neil Hunt .... Weasel
• Diana Lee Inosanto .... Customs Agent #2
• Henry Kingi .... Moe
• Tiffany Lawrence .... Security Guard
• Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr. .... Bouncer (as Tiny 'Zeus' Lister)
• Marshall Manesh .... Sheik
• John Paxton .... Smooth
• Pee Wee Piemonte .... Frick
• Mary Anna Reyes .... Woman in Torture Room
• Jeffrey Dean Rosenthal .... Bald Man
• Loren Rubin .... Krebs
• Michael Russo .... Santo
• Joe Sagal .... Fred the Bartender
• Diane Shay .... Stripper in Dressing Room
• Harvey Shield .... Dad
• Lou Simon .... Passenger
• Rene Stahl .... Woman in Bar #2
• Nils Allen Stewart .... Jack
• Teo .... Disc Jockey
• Patti Tippo .... Mom
• Dominique Vandenberg .... Frack
• Al Wan .... China
• Diane Warshay .... Maria
• Nicholas Worth .... Reuben
• Jack Wright .... Package Check Guy
• Salvator Xuereb .... Young Soldier
• Angelie Almendare
• Arthur Tipp .... Custom Agent

Photo Gallery of the movie: Barb Wire

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Reviews of the movie: Barb Wire

If you're going to go to the trouble of making a movie centered around a pair of breasts, we say: set your sights high! That's exactly what the makers of Barb Wire have done. Not only have they constructed a film showcasing Pamela Anderson, she of the grossly-enhanced mammaries and limited acting ability, but they've done it as a remake of Casablanca.

When we first heard that Barb Wire stole its story from one of Hollywood's greatest films, we figured the rip-off could only extend so far. We were right, but it extends a lot further than we dared expect. The film takes place in the "last free zone" of the United States, recently taken over by a Nazi-like congressional regime. There, Barb (Pamela Anderson Lee, in the, uh, titular role) runs a nightclub and engages in an occasional round of bounty-hunting to support her employees. Dutifully, a romantic figure from her past arrives with a new love, and that new love must be smuggled out of the country. Barb, of course, accidentally acquires exactly what they need to escape, and then must weigh her own interests against those of "the resistance."

Throw in a weaselly little guy (the dependable Clint Howard), a big fat guy, a corrupt-but-goodhearted cop, some trustworthy employees/friends, some resistance members, and a goose-stepping, screaming commandant with his goose-stepping, Nazi-uniformed goons, and you've got a movie that reminds you so much of Casablanca it's impossible to think of anything else. Then, the movie takes a turn to the silly and we're back in comfortable territory again.

Even though you would be hard pressed to tell this from anything in the movie, Barb Wire is a character who originally appeared in a short-lived series of books from Dark Horse Comics, who scored a major hit when their character of The Mask was translated to the big screen. Barb Wire is a good example of a comic book that has no real reason to made into a movie, and of a comic book movie with no particular connection to the book that spawned it. We wish that movie producers would stop making movies into comic books on the strength of having an interested star and a finished script; the star should be able to act and the script should be good.