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Starlets:
| Category | softcore / mature audience |
| Director | unlisted |
| Themes | glamour modeling, tease, stripping |
| Production or Street Date | xx.xx.xx date of production, DVD released 09.30.03 |
| Released By | Peach DVD |
| Available Formats | DVD |
| Running Time | xxx minutes -- not easy to determine on this disc! (60+ minutes) |
| Source and Price Paid | DVD courtesy of Peach DVD |
| Box Cover Quote | "Shot live at Pipeline Café the wildest club in Hawaii" |
Synopsis
Back cover synopsis: “L.A.’s most notorious after-hours promoters, Club Naked, and the ever-so-sexy women of Peach DVD have taken their show on the road. Hawaii is the first stop on the quest to find America’s PERFECT PEACH. Hosted by Peach DVD’s very own Lana, this disc has it all, dance and strip contests, some of the hottest women anywhere, and one of the freakiest parties that this little island has seen in a long time. You even get to go backstage for all of the crazy, behind-the-scenes action. Plus, tag along as Peach takes some of the luscious contestants to the sparkling sands of Hawaii’s best beaches for some serious tropical heat!”
Basically the DVD is split into 2 halves: the first half has 6 solo scenes with the six stars, each taking a turn stripping by the beach. The second half of the DVD has the team heading to the Pipeline Café club for a show. Actually depending on whether you use autoplay or start from the menu the club half can come first. It doesn’t really matter although the club contest explains how they picked the “natives” for the beach scenes.
What's Hot
Teanna Kai – What’s not to love here? Teanna looks fantastic and I wish she had longer parts in this DVD. She looks good as she ever has on this disc.
Multiple angles – I like multiple angles on DVDs and I appreciate it when they are incorporated into the production. They are rarely used to their full potential but they greatly add to the replay value of each beach scene.
What's Not
Technical issues – The audio in the club scene is just plain terrible. The locations chosen for this DVD provide numerous production challenges (audio, lighting, limited camera placements, etc) but all this disc proved was that Peach has more work to do before they are ready to meet these challenges.
Too Short – The DVD is just over 1 hour long. Even watching the Special Features and watching multiple camera angles it is hard to get more than about 1½ hours out of it. That’s not TOO bad, but clearly another scene or two (how about more Teanna or Jessica?) would add value.
Play By Play
Below are brief scene descriptions of the content on this disc.
Part 1 – Peach Girls Go Native (Teanna
Kai, Jessica Jaymes, and Lana)
Part 1 is the first 3 (of 6) solo scenes on the beach. Part 1 includes Peach girls Teanna, Jessica, and Lana.
Teanna (5:57 minutes) goes first and is, in my opinion, the true jewel of this DVD. Teanna starts clothed in a neon pink bikini and wastes no time taking it off. Most readers of this review are probably already familiar with Teanna but for those who aren’t she is a very slender Asian with perfectly shaped breasts. At barely over 100 pounds there isn’t an ounce of fat visible anywhere on here fantastic body. This scene is a fairly typical “remove bikini on the beach as waves wash around you” scene (like the other five) but Teanna pulls it off nicely with only a couple of minor complaints. First, there is little eye contact with the camera. This might be due to the fact that because of the multiple angles there are many cameras to look at, but Teanna’s eyes seem to be constantly moving and not focused on anything. The second complaint is that with the exception of 2 very brief moments (the first near the beginning when here bikini bottoms are almost swept away and the second near the end when a large wave almost sweeps her away) she has a very serious expression on her face and doesn’t smile. This is made worse by the 2 brief times she does and her smile seems to light up the scene. Only in those two brief moments do we get the sense that she is having fun. These two complaints aside Teanna’s scene takes the cake in the first half of the DVD and I wish we had longer than just under 6 minutes to watch her extraordinary body frolic in the surf.
Jessica Jaymes is up next (4:11 minutes). Jessica is good looking brunette who is Czech, Seminole Indian, and French. She starts this scene dressed in a white top and a purple wrap around her lower half. She quickly loses the wrap as she plays in the sand. Jessica has a very similar body type to Teanna only bigger (approximately 3-4 inches taller and 35D vs. 34C for Teanna) with the same very slender body topped with perfectly shaped (enhanced) breasts. Jessica smiles and looks a bit playful as the waves roll in. The white top gets soaked and is transparent although she doesn’t actually take it off until more than ½ way through this short segment. It depends somewhat on which camera angle you use but Jessica shows quite a bit more pink than either Lana or Teanna do.
Lana, the host for the DVD, is up next in the last of the Peach Girls Go
Native (Lana’s scene is 4:26 minutes). Lana is a curvy blonde who starts the
scene in a white string bikini with a flower in her hair. Right away you notice
in this scene the lighting is a step below the previous scenes because of the
reflection of the sun on the water behind her. This improves somewhat as she
kneels down to play in the sand but the ocean behind her still looks like a wall
of white. Lana stays at the very edge of the waterline so only the largest waves
make it up to her, instead preferring to play with the sand instead of the
water. A nice change from the others but personally I think naked bodies look
better wet than covered with sand.
Starlet Appearance: 7.5, Starlet Attitude & Personality: 7
Scene grade:
Part 2 – Native Girls Go Peach (April
Showers, Daisy, and Maya)
Part 2 is similar to Part 1 only “native” girls (3 girls from the contest at the club) are used instead of the Peach girls. The 3 beach solo scenes in Part 2 star April, Daisy, and Maya.
April Showers (Laura from Part 3, go figure) starts off the Native Girls Go Peach segment with the longest (at 6:46 minutes) of the 6 beach scenes. This brunette starts off in a red (top) and blue (bottoms) bikini, which, you guessed it!, comes off quickly enough. True to the “native” girl theme April seems much less experienced in this kind of posing and seems to lack direction. Her movements are the same slow motion stripper movements that the Peach girls use but she doesn’t move as gracefully as they do. She seems too mechanical and is posing instead of playing.
Daisy is up next for another longer scene (5:58 minutes). Daisy scene starts with her in a thin red and white top (no bottoms) already rolling in the waves. Daisy has about 7 butterfly tattoos, large ones on her lower back and lower stomach and smaller ones surrounding the large. She also displays more energy than the rest of the 6 combined as she rolls in the water. Some good pink shots as she waits for another wave. The top comes off and we see more tattoos including a crab between her shoulder blades. Like April, Daisy definitely lacks the polish of the Peach girls but in her case it doesn’t hurt because she makes up for it with her energy and enthusiasm.
Maya is the last of the “native” girls in the shortest scene on the DVD (4:09 minutes). Maya is a curvy brunette dressed in a blue flowered string bikini. The bikini goes by the wayside in no time. Maya poses in the sand at the edge of the water line as Lana did, with only the largest waves making it up to her. Unfortunately this position also causes the same lighting problems as it did with Lana. The ocean looks white because of the sun’s reflection on it. Maya does OK but seems to run out of things to do so the 4:09 seems mercifully short about the 3:30 minute mark.
Starlet Appearance: 7, Starlet Attitude & Personality: 7.5
Part 3 – The Pipeline Cafe (All the
girls)
Part 3 starts with the three Peach girls climbing out of a limo in front of The Pipeline Café, the site of the rest of the DVD’s action. Lana, as our host, takes the microphone and tells us that the three of them are at the Pipeline to search for more Peach girls.
The action moves into the club. Teanna looks scorching in a pink club outfit (pink bikini top and pink “pants” which are just a front and back held together by strings on each side from her hips on down her legs) and Jessica is wearing a short pink, orange, and black dress. Lana appears again with the microphone and introduces the other two to the crowd. The audio inside the club is terrible and you can barely make out what she is saying. As she introduces the other two girls we see short (30 second) clips of them posing in the beach (same footage as in Part 1) and on a boat (new footage). Shortly after an unnamed presenter interviews Teanna about what they are looking for in a Peach girl. Beauty, personality, and boobies! is the reply. The Peach girls sit on a couch on stage and get ready for the contest to begin.
Daisy is the first contestant and her portion sets the tone for the others that follow. Daisy dances on the front of the stage, stripping for the crowd. During part of the strip the scene will cut and show highlights from Daisy’s solo scene that we’ve seen before (about 1/3rd) and new solo segments that we haven’t (the remaining 2/3rds). In the club the girls only strip topless, not totally nude. After Daisy comes Jay or Jane (I think Jane, it was extremely difficult to make out her name in the noisy club even though I rewound it three times), who dances but does not take off any of her clothes. Too bad, she was a very cute Asian. Next is Maya, whom we already know. Her strip follows the same pattern as Daisy’s: strip in the club cut with scenes of her beach solo scene combined with some new solo footage. Next up is someone I swear they identify in the club as Laura, but her strip is cut with scenes of April Showers on the beach. Next is someone who I thought was introduced as Chloe, but again the noise in the club from the music and the crowd drowns out anything the presenter was trying to say. This is getting irritating. Then as she leaves the stage the presenter says Terri. By this point I’m thinking “Who the fuck cares what their names are?” This audio is horrible.
The scene cuts to Jessica grinding with two other women on a couch. After about 30 seconds of this (Jessica the only one showing any real skin) we cut again as round 2 is about to start. Back to the stage as Daisy hugs and kisses judges Jessica and Teanna as they sit on the couch. Jane comes back and dances in front of the couch for the judges but again doesn’t show anything and is replaced all too quickly by Maya, who sits on Jessica’s lap and has Jessica and Teanna remove her top and squeeze her tits. Next up is Laura, who does the exact same thing as Maya. Finally Terri returns (I’m quite sure they said Terri this time) and plays to the crowd. Daisy and Maya come out to kiss as the second round ends.
Jane is announced as the first finalist and does a quick bump and grind with Jessica and Teanna (mainly Teanna) onstage. Again she doesn’t show skin and is replaced quickly by Maya who takes her turn with Jessica and Teanna. Teanna starts to get into this, simulating analingus on Maya’s ass (who is wearing jeans so it’s just tease) and taking off Maya’s top to play with her tits. Laura and Daisy tie for the third finalist spot and get up with Jessica and Teanna for their turn. Daisy is just plain nastier here, dropping her pants for our only in-club beaver shots. The contest ends and the judges deliberate.
Third place goes to Laura. 2nd place to Jane, the hottie we never got to see
anything of. 1st place goes to Maya. Maya celebrates on stage with the Peach
girls and the scenes cuts in with footage of her on the beach during her Part 1
solo. Part 3 ends the way it started, with the three Peach girls outside getting
back into their limo. (Part 3 is a total of 28:45 minutes)
Starlet Appearance: 6, Starlet Attitude & Personality: 7
Scene grade:
Everything Else
This DVD also contains some extras for the viewer. First up is a 5:33 minute Behind the Scenes segment which follows the film crew to the beach to shoot some of the solo scenes. Daisy is interviewed and tells us she is from California and moved to Hawaii two years previously. She talks a bit about her ethnic origin and how much she loves Peach, etc, etc, etc. Next up is a quick Maya interview (where we find out her name is actually Sprig Daniels). Maya tells us she is Filipino and Irish.
The DVD also contains 1-2 minute trailers for several other Peach DVDs, including Ultra Vixens: Teanna for those of us who can’t get enough Teanna. There are 6 trailers in all. Finally there is a short (2:49 minutes) picture gallery with about 30+ stills from the DVD scenes.
Last Word
Overall this DVD was decent but not perfect. It was good enough that it sticks in your mind and makes you wish they had improved just a couple of things that could have made it outstanding. On the positive side the girls were very attractive and there wasn’t an ugly duckling in the bunch. Teanna Kai and contest winner Maya were both standouts. Daisy, who didn’t even place in the contest, still found her way onto the beach and while she was obviously a bit raw her enthusiasm could teach the others a thing or two. Come to think of it, the same could be said for her performance in the contest. The one disappointment about the talent is they couldn’t work Jane in more. She placed 2nd in the contest but got no beach scene nor showed any skin in the club. Perhaps she and Peach couldn’t reach a financial agreement. I sure would have liked to have seen more, so I my mind this was a missed opportunity.
On the negative side the production quality hurt this DVD in a big way. There was the lighting problem on the beach, which can be forgiven as it wasn’t a big problem and to some degree it goes with the territory when shooting in such a location, but the production inside the club was not good. The audio was indistinct, the lighting was bad, and the camera angles where limited. I know it is difficult to shoot inside a crowded and noisy nightclub but I think a little planning could have gone a long way here.
In summary the DVD was a worthwhile diversion for an hour or so. Fans of the softcore genre might want to look into this as an alternative to the fakeness of Playboy’s videos. The action is much more real feeling in this DVD and at the top level Peach’s girls are certainly comparable to some of Playboy’s. It was unfortunate the production on this DVD was a bit of a letdown.
New (Experimental) SRR Rating Method:
Tease & Sexual Content Ratings (weighted 2x):
7.00
Production Ratings (weighted 1x): 7.00
Dialog/Story/Script: 7.00, Costumes/Clothing: 7.00,
Location: 7.00
Technical Ratings (weighted 1x): 6.50
Camerawork: 7.00, Video Quality:
7.00 (6 in club and 8 on beach), Audio Quality:
5.00, DVD Extras: 7.00
Overall Rating: 6.875 out of 10.00
-- Sipper100
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Review Date: 01.25.2004
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