R & R

1994, VCA Platinum

Reviewed By:
Nastya Pederov

On: 09/24/99


Produced by: Stuart Canterbury
Directed by: Stuart Canterbury
Starring: Asia Carrera, Tiffany Mynx, Tricia Yen, Vivian, Victoria Andrews, Melanie Masglow, Tony Tedeschi, Steve Drake, Sean Michaels, Buck Adams, Johnny Prober, Jack Mehoff, Austin Moore
Directing: 2
Production: 3
Storyline: 2
Music: 2
Editing: 3
Costumes: 2
Dialogue: 2

The Sex Index ©

Melanie Masglow with Steve Drake                
Tiffany Mynx with Tony Tedeschi                
Tricia Yen with Sean Michaels              
Victoria Andrews with Buck Adams and Vivian              
Asia Carrera with Tony Tedeschi                    
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       
                       


 
 

Review:

A GI (Tedeschi), trapped in Laos on a secret mission, reminisces about his time in Vietnam and his girl back home, after it becomes doubtful that he will make it back to either. The devotion he showed both the woman he loved and the country he served are memories tainted with the sense that both have abandoned him. Inventive as it sounds, however, this passe attempt to merge sex and the violence of war is carried off with little conviction, not to mention continuity. Its tawdry subject matter and poor acting make R & R a difficult watch, particularly for female viewing.

Tedeschi's remembrances center mostly on a brothel in Saigon prior to the mission as his comrades in arms try to get him to partake of the local flavor. Vowing eternal allegiance to his girl (Tiffany Mynx), he declines, even though she has failed to write to him in months. Mynx must have given him something to wait for in his flashback within a flashback to their first time in the front seat of his car. How romantic. And the audience can only guess why Tedeschi's character would remember scenes of Steve Drake manhandling Melanie Masglow or Buck Adams pumping away like a poodle at Victoria Andrews and Vivian in a mosquito-netted whorehouse bed while he slowly bleeds to death in a Laotian rice paddy. Don't let the top billing of talented and excessively alluring Asia Carrera fool you either. She appears in only one scene with Tedeschi as the innocent peasant girl (in high heels no less), happened upon while traversing the countryside. So much for the girl back home.

During the only scene that stands out in this flick, Sean Michaels presents his favorite prostitute (Tricia Yen) with the gift of a shiny new dildo and proceeds to show her its many uses. Her tiny mouth and sensuous lips wrapped around Michaels' purple-headed monster is a feat of physics that must be seen to be believed. The opposition of their skin colors and sizes is so extreme, it's as if they are from different planets. Truly amazing, yes, but worth the price of admission?

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