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Catherine Review

Ninn Worx

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Reviewed by MASAMUNE  on  9/26/2005

 

Catherine (single disc edition)  

Director: Michael Ninn
Camera: Chris Hall & Miles Long
Genre: Artporn
Release: 9/05
Notes: 1 hr 59 min
widescreen
no condoms
(I recommend you check out the trailers and promo stuff at ninnworx.com before you proceed with the review)

Catherine comes in 2 editions: a cheaper single-disc version which is basically just the feature itself and also a special 2 disc collector's edition which is loaded with extras. I'll be reviewing the single-disc edition.

This movie doesn't have much of a story nor is there any character development. For those of you looking for that kind of porn, you won't find it here. Catherine may come under the guise of being an elaborate story- the beautiful sets and costumes lend itself perfectly to it- but instead it's been stripped down to a series of vignette style scenes which really have little to no relationship to each other except for the period-styled clothing. The context surrounding the sex is very weakly defined as well. 

Audrey plays a woman in the 21st century who's plagued by visions of the past. Perhaps she's a schizophrenic or has multiple personality disorder. That's really all you need to know. That's all you need to know because that's as far as the movie goes. Ninn explains nothing. 


 act 1:

Audrey Hollander vs. Otto Bauer

Anal, A2M, face-slapping, Facial

The first sex scene opens with Audrey laying nude over snow-capped steps. Otto approaches her and starts to yell at her, calling her a whore and a cunt over and over. Here, as Otto is scolding away, Ninn pulls out all his camera and editing tricks, abusing it to the point where you get lost in a multitude of quick cuts and zooms. This type of camera trickery plagues all the area between sex scenes. Unfortunately it quickly starts to grate on the nerves much like fingernails raking a chalkboard. 

Otto orders Audrey to expose her cunt and then makes her play with herself. Of course this leads into the sex, which moves from a blowjob immediately into anal. We get some sexy yet brief hip grinding as Audrey is riding away in reverse anal cowgirl. Other highlights include Audrey propping one leg up on the base of a pillar as Otto lifts her other leg so he can spear her ass as she's suspended in midair. 

This scene has a dream-like quality to it, everything in a diffused glow, blasted out white with a purplish tint. As a result, the picture quality is a bit fuzzy. Together with the echoing moans, it all seems so bleak and distant. The visuals are interesting but overall I thought the scene was boring, the sex uninspired. Hard to engage with this one.                 


 act 2:

Valentina Velasques vs. Bruno SX

Anal, A2M, clit-spanking, Facial

The next scene witnesses the punishment of a whore played by Valentina. Audrey, on her throne, orders it through the darkness: "That nasty slut...make her beg."

Bruno devours Valentina's cunt and slaps at her clit, evoking purrs of pain. Thunder cracks in the distance, lightning flashes through the windows as Audrey forces Valentina's mouth down on Bruno's cock. "Whore!" she screams. Then Audrey spanks her captive's clit as Bruno fucks the hole beneath it. After a lengthy doggy fuck, he plunges deep into her ass.  

This scene is a bit better than the previous scene. Still, the energy never seemed to take me anywhere and I was left more frustrated than anything. Lots and lots of clitty spanking here.       


 act 3:

Audrey Hollander, Adriana Rouso, Nikki Blond

Lesbian, Anal, DP, Strap-on, butt-plug 

The girls haul Audrey out into a courtyard by a horsey bit strewn through her mouth. Here, Ninn splices in bits of two separate solo masturbation scenes by Adriana and Nikki- they jam their fingers deep up their cunts yet it's all completely unrelated and has zero linearity. The chaos of quick cuts, zooms, and pans assaults us like a machine gun, techno music raging through it, and then the confusion finally recedes as the 3-way lesbian romp takes over.

Audrey clamps her throat down on a shiny, black strap-on and then she gets her head pushed down on it fiercely. The hard throat-fucking transitions into an even crueler pounding up her ass. "I wanna be fucked like a fuckin' whore!" Audrey pleads and then the girl taking her doggy-style begins to jackhammer into her as fast as she can. Soon Audrey is riding on the cock vaginally as she gets a clear buttplug with a horsey tail eased in and out of her bum.      

This was the one scene in this movie that I did like. Adriana and Nikki look like twin sisters- I couldn't tell them apart and this fact probably added to the eroticism. Audrey takes a very hard butt-fucking with the strap-on. It's so raunchy and raw. I think it's rare to see a strap-on used so brutally.             


 act 4:

Victoria Swinger vs. Mike Foster

Vag, Facial

A dark figure materializes at the end of a shadowy corridor. Goddess-like Victoria sits patiently, looking virginal in her gown of purity. Soon she's being eaten out by Mike as she kneads her boobs softly between her fingertips. She returns the favor with a sensual blowjob, the corridor's light providing a heavenly glow on her back. Then she sits on his cock and starts to ride him in reverse, her dainty feet being lifted off the ground in each bounce. But the highlight of the scene is an aerial cowgirl fuck with Mike drilling her madly, the camera capturing it from an extreme long shot.          

A very vanilla scene. This one is by far the softest scene of the movie and coincidently, it's also the most boring. Little energy on the whole. 


 act 5:

Audrey Hollander vs. Otto Bauer, Bruno SX, Mike Foster

Anal, A2M, DP, DAP, Facials

We have Otto screaming at Audrey on the steps again and he's even angrier this time. I'm not sure what she did to deserve this exactly, something about 'not leaving.' Otto drags her by the hair and throws her down onto a red couch, summoning Bruno and Mike from out of a lighted door to punish her.  

The cold is apparent from the frosty breath that shows in the air and also the steam rising from the tips of the guy's cocks (I thought this was very interesting.) Audrey goes to work on them, swallowing them down to the base and soon they've got her in a DP as Otto yells at her, calling her names like "pig," "bitch," and "whore." Her ass gets filled up by two cocks and the scene culminates in three facials, her so-called "dinner" according to Otto.    

This scene is really repetitive to me. It's dominated by DP and DAP with little variance in the camera angles.

 

 DISC EXTRAS

The single disc edition has a 12 minute preview of the Extras you get on the collector's edition. Here's what I saw on the preview:

  • Interview with Otto and Audrey

  • Photo galleries

  • Bonus scene- Audrey and Justine Jolie

  • Behind-the-scenes

  • Bonus scene- Adriana Rouso solo scene 

  • Bonus scene- Nikki Blond solo scene   

I'm guessing the collector's edition Extras last between 2-3 hours. Don't take my word on it though. 

 

 THE  BOTTOM  LINE

This movie is definitely very artistic- I think that's obvious. It's a brilliant vision and visually, it tops 90% of the other porn out on the market. Yet, there's just so many damn holes in it. How about giving us a movie that actually makes sense? A movie with a developed plot? With linearity and relationships between scenes? Real motivation behind the sex? How about giving us a movie that isn't clouded by flamboyant camera tricks and special effects that try and mimic a music video? This is pretentiousness. The driving force- the soul- gets spirited away by overtly elaborate technical elements.       

Ultimately, it's the sex that makes or breaks a movie. The sex here was nothing special and I couldn't engage with many of the scenes. Cold detachment summarizes it. I was emotionally uninvolved through most of it.

On the upside, at least Catherine is unique though. If you need a rest from all the same'ol, same'ol product that gets pushed out daily, this just may be what the doctor ordered. This is very classy porn-classy porn blended with the harder edged sex found in gonzo. For me though, I was very disappointed by a movie that's been hyped so much.

 

TOTAL SCORE: 3

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