4.25
out of 5.00 -
Film:
4
Extras:
4
Video:
4
Audio:
5
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6/1/2004
As adult movies become more and more cinematic, it's often times that the "talent" fails to show any when actually acting. Adore is an outstanding example of where that is not the case. Leading man Chris Cannon really shows some acting chops as a heartbroken writer with truly the worst screen name in film history, Gus Van Gus-Gus. But it's the ladies who lead the way with the sexual acrobatics and skillful seduction.
Star Savanna Samson, who won the AVN award this past year for her role in Vivid's Looking In, plays Emily, Cannon's love interest. While the opening scene is not particularly well lit, the light shows plenty in Samson and Cannon's first foray between the sheets. The sex may follow the standard porn formula?oral for her, oral for him, intercourse, it's still very sexy and the background soundtrack of smooth jazz, gentle moans, and squeaky bed springs does a lot to set the mood. However, there is one minor distraction?Savanna's Mardi Gras bead belly chain is so overpowering that while you're trying to enjoy the action, the beads seem to divide her "good parts" like the Great Wall of China. Breasts to the North, sex to the South.
The drama unfolds when Cannon wakes to find Samson gone and a "Dear John" letter next to him on the bed. His lady love is soon found in the apartment of his neighbor, Lance, played by Anthony Hardwood. Cannon figures out Samson and Hardwood are definitely more than friends and we're treated to a first class viewing of just how well this couple works together. Their rendezvous on his couch sets the mood with Red Light District lighting, but as they get it on vertically, you can't help but be impressed and equally aroused. But for those who are put off but the industry's tendency to use extreme genital close-ups, prepare for an overdose of those during the doggie style section of their lovemaking.
The next scene is Cannon's moment to shine as he delivers an impressive heartbreak monologue to the squeaky voiced Cherokee. However, proof that the industry can laugh at itself, Cannon laments that "my life has become some fucking horrible porno movie." But talk soon turns to action as the couple engages in a bouncy bout of sex culminating in Cannon's screaming climax then a mental breakdown over the now framed Dear John letter.
Those following the plot and not just skipping to the sex scenes are now thinking this guy will forever remain tormented by "the one that got away with the neighbor", but better days are ahead, namely with new neighbor Trina (Ashley Blue). The couple get hitched and head to the frosty Minnesota north and live the white picket fence dream.
However, what fun is there in happily ever after? Samson and her hubby, Vincent (Tony Tedeshi) buy the house next door and the tension begins. Cannon drifts into some disturbing Christmas dreams about his ex-love with her new beau while his wife's role in this insane sidebar should get a prize for the most outlandish. She's dressed as a pirate and turns a metal detector into a sex toy.
We follow the foursome through the most uncomfortable holiday dinner in history that has "chic fight" potential all over it. Instead, things get wrapped up with a morality lesson on fidelity.
All in all, the sex scenes make it worth the rental, particularly Samson and Hardwood's one-on-one. The disc is loaded with extras, including behind the scenes footage and the "Positions Room", where you can skip to the activity that gets you going, be it oral for her, oral for him, "cowgirl", or doggie style. There's also a slideshow and a five-scene bonus from other Vivid videos. Stay away from the web and "more adult fun" links?they're just repeats of the five-minutes of 800 number and Vivid product commercials you were forced to watch at the start of the disc.
By:
Jessica Greene