2.75
out of 5.00 -
Film:
3
Extras:
2
Video:
3
Audio:
3
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11/19/2000
Although I am not particularly fond of compilation videos, I understand that they do have a purpose in life; namely, to give viewers a quick porn fix using a back catalog of videos. Erotica 2000 has apparently looked into the vaults of Caballero and Vidco to bring us BRUNETTES DO IT BETTER, an unmistakably cheap and sometimes cheesy collection of our favorite raven-haired actresses bearing their soul and baring their bodies for our sexual satisfaction. While companies like VCA bring a little tender loving care to their greatest hits collection (particularly the DEEP INSIDE...series where the featured actresses often host and then perform in a newly shot scene), Erotica 2000 simply gathers a bunch of clips without such conveniences like credits, or production notes, or source references.
The DVD is not time encoded, but the choice of material is certainly above average, thanks to scenes from classics like Andrew Blake's HOUSE OF DREAMS, where Zara Whites, Raven and Rocco Siffredi engage in an awesome threesome. Alas, the visual quality of this particular clip is a bit worse than the David disc released from a few years back (which was disappointing to begin with). Other clips vary in quality, depending on their original master source: the Rebecca Lords straight scene has an acceptable, clear look, while the Liza Harper threesome suffers from what was obviously a cheap production. Cutie Sierra, who was so great in John Stagliano's FACE DANCE, is more of a dirty blonde than brunette, but so what? She still looks great being pounded by Peter North in her brief scene. And of course, covergirl Rebecca Lords is always a pleasure to see being pleasured or pleasuring another, even if it has to be long-haired wannabe rocker, Alex Sanders. Of course, I would be lying to say that their little fuck-party was anything great; Rebecca has done far more and far better in other movies which have yet to make their way to DVD (such as the later volumes of the PUSSYMAN series, and CATWALK from Sin City Video).
However, for me, the biggest disappointment of BRUNETTES DO IT BETTER is the unnecessarily truncated scene featuring the incredible Lauren Hall and Frank James from Vidco's PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT, an early nineties feature video. Let me just state that this is, hands down, my all-time favorite straight scene in porn ever. Lauren Hall plays a vampire who beds down real life deaf-mute Frank in a 30-minute scene which is nothing but heat and fire. I won't mislead the viewer into thinking that their tryst contains any anal fucking, or cum swallowing, or any other extreme sex, because the truth is, it isn't there. However, Lauren is so smolderingly gorgeous in her role (as she was in THE TEASE), and so breathlessly seductive throughout, that I have yet to find another straightforward girl-guy scene that is equally as arousing. Furthermore, the video quality of this transfer is excellent, far surpassing even the best original VHS copy that I have ever owned of this title. The way she kisses, sucks and fucks her "victim" is so erotic that I would have paid the DVD retail price for a an unedited excerpt of this scene alone. Ironically, Madison's merely "very good" encounter with the annoying Tony Montana, which originally followed Lauren's scene from PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT, is complete and intact and precedes the Lauren tryst at the end of the disc. Go figure.
So while on the one hand (the hand which is usually holding the, umm...DVD remote) I can recommend this disc for Lauren Hall's final scene alone, on the other hand, I must express dismay at the fact that the first original fifteen minutes or so have been unceremoniously excised for this DVD compilation, which is unacceptable for any new or old fan of hers. Here's hoping (nay, demanding) that Vidco put PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT at the top of their list for transferring old titles onto the DVD format.
BRUNETTES may DO IT BETTER, but this disc needs some improvement.
By:
Diesel