Directed by Angela Robinson (2004)
by Judson Cade Pedigo

I’ve been thinking a lot about the movie D.E.B.S lately and I’m not sure exactly why. D.E.B.S is a perfectly fine movie, not particularly remarkable at first glance but that’s exactly what makes it so extraordinary. The D.E.B.S are a group of young women trained to be an elite task force by a highly top secret spy organization. Stylistically the movie looks and feels like any mainstream teen movie released in the early 2000’s like Agent Cody Banks or Drive Me Crazy. Here’s the thing though, about thirty minutes into the movie we find out that one of the D.E.B.S might end up falling for the super villain with world domination plans. That’s a plot twist we’ve all seen before except here the actual twist is that the villain is actually a villainess and the story is not girl meets boy but girl meets girl. It’s one that I didn’t really see coming because the movie looked so glossy. That’s an interesting take and had me paying attention to a movie I normally wouldn’t have paid attention to. The script is funny, the cast is great, and the whole thing moves along wonderfully. It’s just fun. It’s really a teen romance wrapped in the guise of a spy spoof; the only difference is that it’s actually a coming out story. The film itself doesn’t let that detail weigh it down - while it is commented on, the movie is more concerned with being a fun action comedy and it succeeds. We need more movies like D.E.B.S I think, movies that are nice, normal mainstream movies that just happen to have a gay element because guess what, a coming out story is normal, it always has been, it’s just the rest of the world that has been a little behind at catching up.