3.5
out of 5.00 -
Film:
3
Extras:
4
Video:
3
Audio:
4
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3/21/2008
I've liked the direction that Wicked Pictures has gone in lately... they've become more intelligent and less complacent in the way they produce DVDs. So I was initially a bit disappointed at how completely overproduced
Bad Girls seemed to be, with an interminable delay in actually getting to the initial menu, a very unfriendly chapter menu (photos are too small and do not identify who is in what scene), and sequences seemingly edited for those with the attention span of the video game generation. All in all, it struck me as the company from five years ago who was always trying just a little bit too hard, and not ever quite getting the results they wanted.
This Brad Armstrong piece is about, well, girls doing bad things, like hot wiring cars in the first scene. I don't blame Nautica Thorn and Kirsten Price for being good enough actresses to really pull this scene off, as there was no way it could be anything but a kind of porn stereotype. They're caught while trying to steal the car, and of course they wind up servicing the officer. Then we fade out. Okay...
Worse is the setup for the second scene with Angelina Valentine. She has this sequence where she's posing and doing an awful job of being a bad girl in front of a guy painting a graffiti mural. I mean, this one physically hurt (hyperbole? where?). The result is a scene that is washed out by far too much light, shots that aren't lined up with any purpose whatsoever, and vapid, empty sex. Granted, the last is kind of the point, but there was very little chemistry between these two, and I actually yawned.
Jessica Drake is the bad business girl in the third scene (sorry, I capitalize everyone's name, including you, Mr. Cummings). It's three way blowjob servicing, though as it's all shot in the elevator, it's really hard to get establisher shots. Armstrong tries to compensate for this by going to tease shots of Drake stripping intermittently, but it really doesn't work and has that same poor attention span feeling as the first scene.
The woman who caught my attention the most on the cover of this flick was Mikayla, the buxom brunette who, just by checking the back cover, you can tell is supposed to be a prostitute. To me, this hits a little bit too close to home for what a porn flick to be glamourising it. Seems like a wrong dual message. This scene suffers from the same poor attention span theatre as the previous ones, with jump cuts that made me think the disc was actually damaged. Mikayla is giving head in the car, followed by a pretty standard sex scene. A bit better chemistry here, and a mediocre scene.
Up next, we get Regan Reese coming out of a place that looks like a stock set dressed up today as a biker bar. Yikes. By now the narrating voice is just annoying the hell out of me, but as it's Regan, OranjeWife's favorite porn star, I watch on. For her sake. Yeah, that's it. Anyhow, there are few things in this world better than a Regan Reese reverse cowgirl sequence, and we're favoured with a few chances to watch this. Victoria Sin also does excellent work, including a long anal sequence, where most of the scene focused. It's a bit of a short scene otherwise, though, with a notably short cumshot sequence. Strange.
The last scene has Kaylani Lei, the cat burglar in heels. Yeah. I'm not going to bother.
There is a bonus scene here, which assuages some of my annoyance, but this seems to suffer from glitz without attention to detail, an eye toward quality but not the resources or the will to make it actually great. There really isn't anything as far as innovation is concerned here, and I thought they dolled up the ladies a bit too much. When the makeup becomes a distraction, it's too much. I suppose it wouldn't be a bad couples flick, but hopefully that's for couples with low expectations. Most others, unless you're a big fan of one of the ladies herein, will probably be able to stay away without missing much.
By:
Oranje