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5.0 out of 5 stars
Roxanna then and now, two impressive erotic films, May 1, 2004
The establishment of Retro-Seduction Cinema is one of Seduction Cinema's most inspired ideas. Take an all but forgotten yet classic 1970s erotic film, release it on DVD, and make an all-new, re-envisioned version of the film starring the company's hottest starlets to go along with it. Now I know we're here primarily to talk about the lovely Misty Mundae, but let me first describe the original version of Roxanna. Directed by sexploitation legend Nick Phillips, Roxanna was the story of a young woman drawn inescapably down into the pits of perversion, drug use, etc. You get the complete, uncut version of the film; as it turns out, a 35mm negative of the film turned up only recently, and the film you see here is transferred from that. It's quite an unusual erotic film, a plot-driven and decidedly dark look at a young woman's emotional and mental breakdown. In between scenes of Sapphic delights, we see increasingly disturbing images from all sorts of unusual angles of Roxanna, whose self-destruction seems almost inevitable. The highlight of the original film, however, has to be the scene featuring Swedish sex-goddess Uschi Digart. Digart sizzles, to put it mildly. The film is quite uninhibited by 1970 standards, I'm sure, but erotica has come a long way in the intervening decades, as the 2002 remake of the film makes clear. Misty Mundae is the new and improved version of Roxanna in the 2002 re-make. The film is built around the framework of the original, especially in terms of the music and the haunting images of a young woman descending into a pit of self-induced despair, but at the same time it is a completely different take on the subject at hand. Where the first film featured no dialogue apart from the commentary of an off-screen narrator, Misty's Roxanna features plenty of vocalization. Having already become a drug addict, Roxanna has her first lesbian experience with a young lady (played by the amazing Katie Jordan) at the behest of the man she is living with. Roxanna enjoys the experience immensely, and she soon has yet another addiction to add to her list of problems. Darian Caine and Barbara Joyce fill the roles of Roxanna's new lovers quite well indeed, but eventually Roxanna's cravings become uncontrollable, leading to an ending that, while far different from that of the original film, works quite nicely. These aren't long movies: the original film is 51 minutes long, while the Misty remake comes in at some 37 minutes. The DVD includes a seven and a half minute interview with "42nd Street Pete," 1970s erotica expert (who gives the 2002 version of Roxanna a definite thumbs up), a short film called Despair, and trailers to additional Retro titles. Seduction Cinema has released some pretty bad movies in its time, but the new version of Roxanna is not one of them - this is an impressive, serious, weighty film. The fact that it features my favorite Seduction Cinema threesome of Misty Mundae, Katie Jordan, and Darian Caine, makes a great thing even better. Roxanna, in both of its forms, represents erotica at its very best.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but not great; worth it for "42nd Street Pete", September 5, 2004
"Roxanna" is supposed to be a re-make of a soft core porno from the 70's with the same name. It isn't a re-make at all, but just a loose hodge-podge of the amazing Misty Mundae (is she a Russian? I don't know but dasvedanya bolshoi!) having sex with three beautiful women: Katie Jordan, Barbara Joyce and Darian Caine. The "theme" that ties all this together is that Misty is a "Generation X" burned out dope-head, who can only "feel" things when she's being "dirty" with other women. I know how she feels. Anyway, the hairy and emasculative Josh Robinson plays Misty's perpetually limp boyfriend who introduces her to the fairer sex and then can't control the libidinal monster he created. The 70's version is more sexually charged and features Uschi Digart and lots of well-endowed blonde women who kiss each other. I thought the 70's version was more "real," but maybe that's the old Cinemax memories coming through. The interview with soft-core porn historian "42nd Street Pete" is worth buying the disc for, as he's a real authority on the subject and it's just amazing to listen to him spew his expertese. Cool! Anyways, if you are a fan of Ms. Mundae, the scene with her and Darian Caine is great and worth the price of admission. The other stuff....it's up to you. If you want a better movie of this genre with these women, check out "Witchbabe III." Now that's a blue movie....
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fast forward review, June 4, 2003
By A Customer
OK, we got 3 stars here, one for the star, a pretty young girl with ace quality puffies, one for Uschi, who rolls around with the puffy girl just about as you'd like, a half star for another puffy girl later on (half star demotion for weird eye makeup), and another half star for all the playing around with the lead girl's puffies, which is precisely what you'd like to see. Basically it's about the lead girl going crazy, presumably because of too much girl-girl sex, I don't know, I had the volume down. Anyway, every now and then it flashes to her doing weird things, once even drooling, but those parts are brief, especially on fast forward. There's some comedy in the form of portraying R rated girl sex in ways that don't really make anatomical sense, but mostly it's a soft core loop with really good girls and Uschi in one scene. Let's see, there's also a 2002 version of the same loop, but don't bother, I'll save you the effort. And the bonus menu has a dumb thing called "Despair" that has maybe one sleaze scene that could be saved as a jpg.
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