Product: Femalien [VHS] (1996)
Rating: 4.0
An erotic blast thanks to Venesa Talor.
Femalien is probably among the most famous softcore movies to date, thanks to its undeniably campy premise and graphic sex. I don't know, softcore films usually bore me, but there are exceptions (like The Erotic Witch Project, The Alien Files, Casting Couch) and this is one of them.Part of the reason's got to be the silly sci-fi premise, which is about a female alien (get it, femalien?!) who comes to Earth to observe humans engage in sexual interaction. By that alone, this softcore film has more plot than three average late-night cable flicks combined. So, basically, the movie doesn't consist of much more than 90 minutes of this femalien (played by Venesa Talor), calling herself Kara in a hilariously dumb scene, watching people have sex while getting off on it, even occasionally joining in on the fun. Well, okay, there is the subplot with the chick named Sun (Jacqueline Lovell) who owns a diner that's about to be shut down by a guy who owns a massaging company, but it pretty much exists only as a set-up for Talor and Lovell to get it on.Femalien has a pretty decent sense of humor, which also places it above most films of its kind. Yeah, the jokes are awful, but they have a unique anti-charm that works in its favor (and Venesa Talor is so gosh-darned gorgeous, you can't help but get sucked in by her character's naivete).There are numerous sex scenes in this film, so I'll give a rundown of the highlights. Let's see, there's the photoshoot segment, which is actually probably the film's highlight. Whoever the actress is playing the other part of this coupling during this scene, I'd like to know her name. Simply put, she's hot. The other standouts include Venesa Talor's two love scenes, there's the superior one with the guy in the diner and another very graphic one with Jacqueline Lovell, which is so graphic, I could almost swear they were really going at it. Nice.Performances are mostly really bad, though Venesa Talor, in a campy B-movie way, excels as the hottie alien. It's got to be the naive way she approaches every situation, which isn't too unlike Starman, but come on, she's easier on the eyes than Jeff Bridges. Okay, that's an understatement, considering she's one of the sexiest women I've ever seen. Yeah, she's had work done on her (now very large) breasts, but I for one think they look great and at any rate, are far more of a turn on than the ludicrous basketballs on Shauna O'Brien's chest.Femalien sure isn't a good movie, not by a long shot, but it's an enjoyably silly one that can be easy to take thanks to non-stop sex and nudity. There's also a sequel, but I have yet to see the uncut version of it (which sort of defeats the purpose of watching softcore).[three and a] 1/2 out of [five stars]