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| Category | Couples feature |
| Director | Toni English |
| Themes | straight sex, relationships |
| Production or Street Date | 09.04.99 date of production, VHS released 06.19.02, DVD released 03.14.03 |
| Released By | Vivid Entertainment Group |
| Available Formats | VHS & DVD (DVD version reviewed) |
| Running Time | 84 minutes + 7 bonus scenes (about 63 minutes) -- 147 minutes total |
| Source and Price Paid | DVD courtesy of Vivid Entertainment |
| Box Cover Quote | "A hooker, an arrest, a wedding postponed. Welcome to the game of life." |
Synopsis
"The Game" is a couples oriented feature that was filmed about four years ago (September 1999). The DVD version is new for the spring of 2003.
Bobby Vitale has wild sex with a hooker overlooking the lights of Los Angeles. Unfortunately, at the end of the tryst, the cops arrest him. None of his friends are available to bail him out, so he is forced to call his wife (Taylor Hayes). Although she gets him out of jail, she isn't too pleased and now the marriage is on the rocks. Bobby visits one of his buddies (Tony Tedeschi) for a drink and formulate a plan to get her back. The plan boils down to calling Taylor a lot and begging her to forgive him. Taylor also talks it over with her friend Nina, and the girls decide going out and spending time with other cute guys is the best thing to do in this situation. Nina promises the scoop will get back to Bobby, and it will "drive him crazy." This is the relationship "game".
What's Hot
Taylor is always a turn on, but she doesn't get super nasty like in the early days of her career.
Nina is sexy in this feature, but she's only in one sex scene.
Generous selection of bonus scenes. Lots of girl/girl scenes featuring Dayton and three anal scenes lifted from other Vivid productions.
Fairly good production values, but the video quality is not as good as new Vivid releases. Some sloppy camera work and jerky editing was evident.
What's Not
The plot was pretty thin and overly familiar.
Other than one anal scene in the beginning, there's nothing here for the raincoater audience.
Some of the sex scenes were broken up by cutting to scenes related to story development. To be fair, the cuts were very well done, but it does break up the continuity of the sex.
The sex scenes are short. Most clock in at about ten minutes.
Although she's not bad looking, Nina struggles with English, so she cannot deliver her lines in an convincing manner.
Taylor's vocals during sex seemed obviously dubbed at places in post production.
Annoying commercials at the beginning of the disc that I could not bypass on my stand alone player. The best I could manage is to fast forward past them. Viewers, many of which presumable paid for the disc should not be forced to watch four or five commercials before reaching the main menu.
Blow by Blow
Below is a brief blow by blow account of the sex scenes:
Scene One -- Renee La Rue & one guy (Bobby Vitale). Renee and Bobby Vitale are making out in the nighttime inside a pick-up truck. They are parked at a lover's lane overlooking the lights. She's wearing a short, tight, purple glitter dress and no panties. They get out of the car and Renee goes down on her knees for a blowjob. Vitale is rock hard and Renee is focused on the task at hand. Instrumental smooth jazz movie plays in the background. Renee lies down on the flat bed of the truck and Vitale fingers and tastes her pussy. After a few minutes, she climbs on top and he fucks her cowgirl. Multiple angles are enabled during this sequence. Next is good amount of sideways screwing. Now Vitale slowly crams his large cock up her ass. Renee is a little more vocal during this portion. Again, multiple angles of the butt bongo action are available. After a fair short time, she then rides Vitale's cock anally reverse cowgirl style. He pumps her like a piston and Renee handles it easily. When he's ready to explode, he whips off the condom and shoots his cum upward. Most of the jizz lands on his own thigh.
This is probably the best scene in the movie, from a creative standpoint and also the most nasty since it includes anal. It may remind viewers of their early sexual experiences in cars as young lovers. Scene grade: B-
Scene Two -- Dayton and one guy (Tony Tedeschi). This is an indoor scene in a bedroom. House music with some vocals is heard in the background. The couple starts to make out on the bed. Multiple angles are enabled from the beginning of the scene. He slowly removes her clothes including her black panties. Dayton's hair is up and she looks pretty nice like this. Tony gives her clit attention with his tongue. Dayton gets pretty vocal here. Next Dayton sucks Tony's cock. She's on all fours and makes good eye contact with her partner. Dayton gets his cock nice and messy here and also sucks his balls while jerking the chicken with her hands. The scene cuts to Dayton getting boinked doggy style, followed by missionary. Dayton lifts her legs up and holds them nicely. Tony finishes off in a hot looking sideways position. He pulls out and squirts his love juice on her upper thigh. Scene grade: C
Scene Three -- Taylor Hayes and one guy (Cheyene Collins). Cheyene and Taylor chat a little bit on a green leather sofa about the nature of relationship. Taylor looks hot here, except her make-up could have used a lighter touch. She's wearing a tight green evening dress. Before the conversation gets too deep, they start to make out. Taylor pulls her dress down below her boobs and hikes up the bottom above her ass. No panties for this chick. Eventually Cheyene gets around to eating her pussy. Taylor returns the favor and goes down on Mr. Collins. She sucks his cock pretty good, but doesn't take it deep. Some slobber at the end is evident. The scene cuts to missionary sex utilizing multiple angles. Cheyene slams it home competently. This is followed by doggy. The scene ends without a cum shot because Taylor's character decides she "can't do this" and goes home. Scene grade: C+
Scene Four -- Nina and one guy (Cheyene Collins). This is a continuation of Scene Three. Nina picks up with Cheyene where Taylor left off. Nina looks very nice here and she has a Euro accent I found sexy. She is also wearing a tight dress, which is quickly hiked up to permit easy assess to all her sexy spots. Collins sucks her breasts and then finds the sweet spot between her legs. Nina then sucks Cheyene's cock. She grabs his pole with one hand and mostly sucks the top third of his cock. The scene cuts and now Nina is riding his cock cowgirl style. She doesn't really bounce so much as gyrate back and forth. It gets Cheyene off and he squirts his man juice on her stomach. Scene grade: C+
Scene Five -- Shelbee Myne and one guy (Bobby Vitale). Bobby and Shelbee are indoors n a living room. She's wearing a green top with straps and green skirt. Her hair is braided in this scene. Bobby keeps talking about his relationship problems and Shelbee convinces him he needs a distraction. She drops to her knees and beings to suck his cock. They move to a sofa during this relatively long BJ sequence. Shelbee makes a pretty good effort here. Bobby jerks the chicken and cums in his own hands. Scene grade: C
Scene Six -- Shelbee Myne and one guy (Tony Tedeschi). This is sort of a continuation of the last scene. Tony takes a turn with Shelbee after Bobby leaves the house. They briefly make out and then Tony eats her pussy. Shelbee seems to enjoy it. Then she sucks his cock for a short time. Tony is anxious to fuck her. The first position is doggy style. Multiple angles are available. Next missionary. Tedeschi pulls out and cums on her stomach. Scene grade: C
Scene Seven - Taylor Hayes and one guy (Bobby Vitale). This scene takes place indoors in front of the living room fireplace during the daytime (no fire). Taylor looks really good again, but the eye makeup is just too much. She's wearing a pink and black nightie with straps and slippers. Bobby kisses her breasts and rapidly moves down to her pussy. Taylor fingers herself at the same time, but the sequence suffers from jerky editing. The scene cuts to blowjob action. Taylor seems to have more energy in this scene and makes lots of sucking sounds. She makes good eye contract with Bobby. She takes the cock deep and it starts to get messy, but then the scene changes directions. Bobby begins to fuck her missionary. A poor camera angle looking over a sofa is used. The sofa actually obstructs some the view to some degree. Viewers cannot even see Taylor's head. Fortunately, there are some other angles available. Most of the time, Taylor's face cannot be seen well. After a few minutes, Taylor is fucked from behind by Bobby. When he is ready to cum, she lies back on the floor and he jerks off on her breasts. Scene grade: C+
Everything Else
The main menu of the dvd is attractive and well laid out. Viewers are presented with the following choices: Play Feature, Scene Selection, Positions Room (8 choice), Bonus Rooms, Phone Sex (Ad), Web Site (Ad) and Setup (multiple angles).
The "Bonus Room" has four choices: "Photo Gallery", "Dayton Does Girls", "Amazing Anal" and one other choice I couldn't read on my TV.
"Dayton Does Girls" features girl/girl four scenes with big titted, blond Dayton. The first is lifted from "Busted". The second scene is from from "Delirium". Scene number three is from "Dreams" and the forth and final scene is from "Interview With Raylene".
"Amazing Anal" is also 35 minutes long. It contains a three full scenes featuring backdoor action. First up is Ryan Conner from "Bad Wives #02". The second scene is hot booty burner featuring Kira Kenner lifted from "The Prisoner." The third scene is lifted from the movie "Couchtails."
The photo gallery consists of nice stills taken from "The Game". Many of them are of Taylor. However, the (movie title) logo on the screen is too large. Besides the distracting logo, the gallery is nicely done with music and roving camera.
Nice boxcover art and silkscreen on the dvd disc.
Condoms were used in all scenes.
Last Word
"The Game" is aimed straight at the couples and cable market. Since it's a talky movie about relationships, plot wise it's probably more of a "chick flick". However, viewers will probably feel like they have seen variations of this story over and over. Finally, "The Game" may appeal to Taylor fans and Dayton fans (due to the bonus scenes).
Overall Rating: C (scene GPA 2.22)
Second
Opinion?
Don Houston was disappointed in this feature and advises viewers to "skip
it". He gives the movie itself only one star out of five. He called
the sex "boring" and story "common".
Review Date: 07.16.2003
Other Suggestions & Comments
Condoms were used in this feature.
On 07.16.03, the average price for this dvd was $24.08 based on 04 online retailers.
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