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She looks like a million bucks even when done up trashily enough to set off a metal detector.

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Laila Robins is trashily good as Crystal, the most significant home wrecker, who has mastered the ignoble art of throwing a youthful tantrum in a bubble bath.

Sure enough, the moment I clambered up into the cab of that Dodge Ram, I was as trashily seductive as Xena the Warrior Princess in full combat mode.

We've already had Robert Katz's trashily titled "Naked by the Window," a 1990 account of the Andre case, and now there is "Bag of Toys," David France's exploration - or should we say exploitation?

Soderbergh could have pumped up the horror, turning the material into a "World of the Living Dead," with disintegrating near-zombies lurching everywhere, but doing the story straight makes it scarier than any amount of trashily morbid movie spectacle.

Luckily, the group's assertive camera man (Ice Cube) isn't afraid to jump in the muck and do battle in, Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, "a trashily entertaining reptilian version of 'Jaws.' "

Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post gave a negative review, saying that The Scorpion King "has none of the qualities - epic sweep, relative originality and heartfelt bloodthirstiness - that made Conan so trashily entertaining."

This inside-the-beast view from the recesses of a monster's devouring gullet is the niftiest shot in Luis Llosa's "Anaconda," a trashily entertaining reptilian version of "Jaws" set in the steaming heart of the Amazon rain forest.

It's not as cheekily knowing as the "Scream" movies or as trashily Grand Guignol as the "Evil Dead" franchise, but like those pictures it recognizes the close relationship between fright and laughter, and dispenses both with a free, unpretentious hand.