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Emmanuelle 4 / Adult Movie [VHS]

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

After seeing this film on TV in Germany I was interested to see it on DVD, because I think it is really erotic film. BUT the film on the DVD is not real Emmanuelle 4. So many scenes are cut that it is hard to recognize the film. Even worst is the qualitiy. I cannot understand that they write digital remastered on the package.

Even this one star is too much!

My advise, don't buy that DVD!

I always thought this one of the better Emmanuelle films and it still is but this has got to be the worst DVD's ever. It's not so much DVD artefacts that the actual master seems to be from a home video recording with the bleeding colours and tape dropouts a dead giveaway. There is no reason to get this on DVD unless that's the only way you have to see this. Film gets three and a half stars, DVD only one star. A pity

This film has had an interesting history. I first saw it in Germany in the late 1980's and loved every minute but when I tried to find the video in the U.S. all I found was badly edited versions. Then on a business trip to Canada I stumbled across the Cinema Plus version distributed by Trans Canada Video, this one is complete, unedited, the dubbing is reasonably good and all the sex scenes are intact. I have no idea how anyone could find another copy now. In it's original form this is one hot video!

I first watched this film on late night cable. The version I saw was Obviously originally X-Rated. There were many splices in the cutting room but there were at least two scenes with the blonde girl with the glasses, (I believe her name is Marilyn Jess)where full hardcore scenes were cut. The torrential downpore where she is on a swing and meets up with and gets oral sex from a man were cut. as well as a subsequent scene involving another man and good old fashioned 70-1. where several frames were visible showing complete felatio.
Be careful which version you get. The plot leaves enough to be desired without too much cutting. Only you know what you want from a film so make sure you get what you want.

Sylvia Kristel supposedly turns over her role of Emmanuelle to a new rising star, Mia somebody, in this film. Unfortunately, the plot stinks and in fact, there is no story, Well, if there is no story, there should be at least some good sights. But there isn't any either. So it has no story to appreciate and no flesh to titillate. Save your money. END

There may be a good version of Emmanuelle 4 out there, but it wasn't this one! Though the actors are speaking in English, it is all dubbed, and very poorly. The photography is washed out at times. The music is really bad. The sound shifts volume, and there is one segment several seconds long with no sound at all. There is no plot whatsoever, the acting is atrociously bad, the film is an editing nightmare (by the director, or the company releasing a heavily censored video, I don't know). I even had trouble tracking this film, and when I rewound, I got a blue screen. How did Sylvia Krystel, whose first two Emmanuelles were classy, thoughtful, and truly erotic films, get sucked into this mess? Maybe the French version is better. But I'm returning this one!

While Emmanuelle 4 is in my opinion the best movie out of the whole series, this DVD is crap! The Audio is catastrophic, the Picture quality is worse then on a VHS tape and the worst: it is cut so badly, that, well, all the reasons you buy an Emmanuelle movie for, are gone...
Get the uncut version somewhere else, but save your money on this movie.

I have seen this movie in both the x-rated and r-ratedversions, and the r-rated version definitely stinks. The x-ratedversion had some explicit scenes, but they were an integral part of the plot. When they cut these out, there was very little plot left.

EMMANUELLE IV was shot entirely in stereoscopic 3-D and widescreen; however the DVD version is cropped and only 2-D. The old MGM video looked better, but that was also cropped and flat. A widescreen 3-D version was released on disc on Japan; it requires field sequential glasses such as those used with the IMAX 3-D sets, but this version was also edited.

This is a cheat. Sylvia Kristel is just a "background" actress.