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Finally, the female super agent genre receives an overtly dyked-up makeover compliments of writer-director Angela Robinson. Unbeknownst to high schoolers taking the S.A.T., there's a diagnostic test embedded within that's designed to judge their abilities for lying, cheating and killing. High-scoring students are recruited for an elite academy of U.S. secret agents: the D.E.B.S. (Discipline, Energy, Beauty and Strength). Four of the D.E.B.S., Amy, Dominique, Janet and Max, land a daunting new mission: track down and capture the legendary, deadly villainess Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster, bearing more than a passing semblance to Demi Moore's lesbianesque Charlie's Angels baddie). But Amy, who recently broke up with her boyfriend, Bobby, realizes that she would rather love Lucy than arrest her. Between dodging bullets, applying eyeliner and all this sexual confusion, what's a checkered-skirt-wearing young secret agent to do?

Robinson first made D.E.B.S. as a short film for the lesbian filmmaker empowerment group "Power Up." Its tremendous response resulted in Sony's Screen Gems division backing a feature version. Bursting with colorful visuals and CGI effects, sassy dialogue, gun-slinging action and a superb cast including The Fast and The Furious' Jordanna Brewster, model Devon Aoki and Michael Clarke Duncan as the Academy's President, D.E.B.S. is guaranteed to fulfill its mission of delighting you.

 -- Lawrence Ferber