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Jesse in Pink

Watch a couple of hundred porn movies, and you’ll inevitably start to get jaded, and begin to privilege novelty — something that looks different will seem inherently superior to something that looks familiar, even if the familiar is also good. I certainly feel that way sometimes, but for Jesse in Pink I tried to take a step back and evaluate the film on its own merits. Yes, it’s straight mainstream porn featuring some familiar stars (some with fake breasts, no less), but that doesn’t mean it’s not good. And, indeed, it is good, with a playful tone, nice lingerie, beautiful people, and some great dirty talk. Director Celeste is known for doing couples-friendly movies with lots of slow-motion effects and no vocal track, but she must have been feeling especially raunchy and randy when she wrote this flick, because it’s got a bit of gonzo flavor. There’s sort of a plot, about blonde headliner Jesse Jane’s quest for sex, which inexplicably seems to elude her (I never said it was a believable sort of a plot), and she has a masturbation scene, and a good boy-girl scene, and a hot girl-girl scene, and an even hotter three-way where she’s joined by brunette Shay Jordan. She even gets to do some acting, of the deliberately over-emotive school, with lots of wistful sighs and simpering, but it’s supposed to be over-the-top, so it works. Interspersed with Jesse’s story are a few other sex scenes involving people who are, presumably, luckier in love (or at least fucking), notably Tory Lane, who throws herself into her scene with tremendous gusto, keeping up a steady stream of impressive dirty talk that only ceases when she has a cock in her mouth (and that gets louder and more impassioned when she has a cock in her ass). There’s a nice BDSM-flavored scene with Jaylynn West and German dom Chris Charming — the paddle with the word “slut” written on it in reverse, presumably to imprint the word readably on some poor ass, is a bit silly, but the sex is great, with lots of leash-tugging and arm-restraining. And did I mention all the pink lingerie? Lots of pink lingerie.

Look, this one doesn’t break new ground, it doesn’t interrogate the core values of porn, it doesn’t push gender boundaries or reach new heights of kink, but it’s an exemplar of a good fuck-flick with a lot of variety, a script that isn’t painful to hear, and uniformly gorgeous (if sometimes surgically-enchanced) female performers. For just plain smut, it’s pretty damn good.

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