As you might expect, when space girls meet California surfer dudes, no one's for sure who's from what planet.

This is basically the premise of Beach Babes From Beyond Infinity, a very cute film that should give other imitators of the genre pointers on how to render a satisfactory accounting of both sex and goofy sci-fi premise.

Sarah Bellomo, Tamara Landry and Nicole Posey, three well-equipped ladies in more ways than one, play Valley Girl-type space cadets. They're in search of fun, frolic and intergalactic boyfriends. One of the girls fantasizes about a muscleman; one dreams about a rocket scientist, and the third craves a bohemian poet of the soul. Hey, but it's a big universe out there. They just might find guys who fit that description.

Predictably, one of the girls "borrows" the old T-bird space ship from her parents, and the trio cruise the galaxy with dire consequences. They crash land in Malibu and wind up meeting, not their dream dates, but two idiots in Hollywood who quite conveniently have a fantasy about being abducted by sexy space aliens. Love, of course, lies just around the asteroid.

If this sounds a wee bit lame-brained, it only gets charming dumber. But there's some funny lines and a few cute sub-plots tossed into the rocket fuel mix for added measure, thanks to Linnea Quigley's chicanery. One of the surfer idiots, Dave, has an uncle (Joe Estevez), a middle-aged but legendary Big Kahuna, who has to come up with $30 grand in a hurry or risk losing his beachfront digs. The prospect for the largesse is presented quite conveniently in a swimsuit design competition that allows the girls to come to the rescue, but not before the film hauls out sequence after sequence of thoroughly spicy love encounters. (Check out the first one —a hot oil massage— in particular.)

Fans of XXX will, of course, recognize the winsome Sarah Bellomo as Roxanne Blaze, a very talented lady who happens to be one of those gifted naturals who has commanding and assured screen presence. I can only see this film being nothing but a major springboard for Miss Bellomo's career.

Retailers, be sure to stock this tape —it was one of this past year's Best Film nominees in the Alternative Feature category.

(Also stars Don Swayze, Joey Travolta, Burt Ward, Jacqueline Stallone and Linnea Quigley.)