Up for Grabs 2: Silvia Saint Review

Running Time: 93 min.

Production Date: 9 / 13 / 1999, 10 / 21 / 1999, 7 / 20 / 2000, 10 / 12 / 2000, 12 / 28 / 2000

Director: None listed

Cast: Silvia Saint, Wendy (Maya) Divine, Sky Taylor, Tanya Danielle, Autumn Haze, Nina, Peach, and

Initial Expectations: Up for Grabs Vol. 1 pretty much sucked, so I’m not expecting much here either.

Initial Reaction: The only things that should be happy with this one is the guys collecting the sucker checks from the people who bought it and the fast forward button on your remote.

Who Should Watch It : Extreme (and I mean extreme) fans of the stars only

Who Should Avoid It: Anybody who’s expectations are above poor

Audio /Video Quality: The audio is average at best. The balance changes throughout the scene, which is a little annoying, and some parts are horribly off balance. There’s also quite a bit of outdoor background noise, since all the scenes are set outdoors, as well as frequent comments from the director that never got edited out. The video has a soft feel to it, almost as if it was shot on film. It also has frequent problems with shadows in many of the shots that ruin most of the scenes. If that’s not enough, there’s some horrible pixelation flashes that are extremely noticeable.

Music: The music seems pretty typical for a couples style feature, but comes and goes during the scenes. It also changes in balance throughout the scene, ranging between nonexistent and slightly overpowering.

Menus: The main menu is simple, but does have a nice little bit of animation to give it a soft and friendly feel. The chapter menu gives a small clip of each scene where you can barely identify the girl.

The Feature: Just as it was in it’s predecessor, Up for Grabs Vol. 2 is a series of unrelated sex scenes. There’s absolutely no setup to any of the scenes, and the only thing that at first appears to set them apart from other features like this is that it can be viewed as a standard feature or with an interactive option. I’ll get into the interactive option in the Extras portion of the review, so for now, let’s get on with the sex!

Silvia Saint starts things out poolside with big tittied blonde Tanya Danielle. Both girls are only wearing a pair of white panties and platform shoes, and start out taking turns kissing each on the mouth and nipples. Tanya lays back first to let Silvia tongue her bald beaver and taking quite a bit of time before ever letting her finger come close to entering Tanya’s twat. Silvia seems pretty cold and fairly bored while licking Tanya’s pussy, but gets a little better when she starts fucking her with a dildo, even using her mouth to hold it. Tanya returns the favor, playing with Silvia’s pussy and spanking her ass lightly as Silvia gets on all fours on the pool chair before pulling out the vibrator. She spanks Silvia’s clit with the vibe before sliding it into Silvia’s pussy. Tanya helps the heat build through the scene by lightly trash talking to Silvia, which seems to get Silvia into things a little more. It’s a pretty average scene, but that takes a little drop at the end when the scene ends abruptly with absolutely no closure.

Sky Taylor, an attractive Latino who has a realistic body with the exception of her over-implanted tits, starts the next scene out with a little kissing before letting her man start to strip her down and then ravage her body orally. Okay, ravage is not the best word since he barely moves once he gets between her legs, but Sky puts out a nice bit of energy as he eats and fingers her pussy. She returns the favor by nicely fucking his cock with her face, taking it all the way into her throat, and giving him some great eyes a few times. They work their way through a few common positions before Sky takes a slightly under average pop in and around her mouth. There’s a little heat and the performers try to bring it up to average, but they never quite make it there, mostly due to the camera work.

Wendy (Maya) Divine, a very cute blonde who at the time had an unimpressive pair of bolt-on tits quickly moves the next scene into hummer territory. From what I’d seen in the past, Wendy gives some of the best head around, but the cameraman doesn’t appear to want you to know that as he keeps most of her partner’s cock (which I think might belong to her husband Eric Masterson) in shadows for much of the scene. Wendy never gets her purty pussy eaten, with the action instead moving directly to doggie sex. They take their time fucking there before moving into both cowgirl and reverse cowgirl, with Wendy putting great energy into both of them. She really does all she can to make this scene work, including taking a nice facial to end things with, but once again there was somebody behind the camera who appears to barely know which end to look into.

Nina returns for this episode of Up for Grabs, this time teaming with redhead Peach for a scene on a tramp(oline). It starts out as a great scene with the girls joking, laughing, and obviously having fun. Peach plays a dominant teacher giving Nina a lesson. She starts out eating Nina’s pussy and yelling at Nina as she giggles away. Nina takes a break to jump on the tramp(oline) as Peach gets a dildo to fuck her with. The lesson moves onto anal sex as Peach tries (unsuccessfully ay first) to insert another dildo in her ass. She makes Nina watch her and finally lets Nina work the dildo after she thinks Nina knows her shit. This should be a great scene. The chemistry is great and the girls are obviously having fun. The end is fairly abrupt and feels like it should have another fifteen seconds or so. Of course the main thing holding the scene back is the camera work, which as usual is plagued by shadows.

Finally, Autumn Haze and an unnamed guy get busy around some trees. It has a very unique start that reminds me of a shadow box, as you can make out everything except for the two people who only appear as shadows (and yes, they are both white people). Autumn appears to give a very nice blowjob complete with good hand motion and eye contact. They skip the pussy eating to go directly to a Where’s Waldo style missionary. It’s almost impossible to see Autumn and the guy as they fuck since all of the lighting appears to be provided by whatever can make it through the leaves directly above them. The appear to move on to some vaginal and then anal spooning before Autumn takes a facial. This scene is why there’s a fast forward button on your remote control. In the few places where you can see anything, Autumn and the guy appear to be doing pretty good, but the spots are few and far between. I’m guessing that maybe (and I’m trying to be nice and estimate on the high side here) forty percent of the scene is clear. It’s really too bad since what I’ve seen of Autumn Haze in the past was very good and I was really looking forward to her scene.

There are certain things that normally make me afraid of a DVD that I stated when I reviewed the first installment of this series. All of them apply here as well as there, so I’m going to restate them for those who haven’t read that review. The first, which is pretty common, is when the DVD has several production dates. This normally means a cookie cutter feature, where somebody just slaps scenes together. Next, I get worried when there isn’t a director listed. To me, this means that somebody doesn’t want their name on this feature. There’s an old saying about “a face only a mother could love”, and if the mother who did this one doesn’t want to be associated with it, them I normally don’t find much to love about it either. Finally, not listing many people in the cast, or including Ed “Ewwwww” Powers or Dick “Extremely” Nasty in the cast list. Thankfully this doesn’t have either Ed or Dick, but only lists one person in the cast. It never even lists the entire cast anywhere in the feature! If it isn’t bad enough to find one of these things in a feature, Up for Grabs Vol. 2 has all of them. Believe it or not, there appears to be some decent sex here. The first scene with Silvia Saint and Tanya Danielle is pretty average, and the rest of the girls put out some decent effort. Unfortunately the camera work kills almost every scene and makes this feature next to unwatchable. You’d be better off taking the money you might spend here and putting it towards a 6 pack of decent beer and a magazine to jerk off to than wasting it on this.

Extras: There are only a few extras here. Trailers are included for The first three episodes in the Up for Grabs series.

The photo gallery is run as a dual gallery. This gives you the choice of watching it manually or as an auto photo gallery. If you choose to run it manually, you also have the ability to zoom in on the pictures. There’s about fifty snapshots here that look very nice. Once again, not all the scenes in the feature are included in the photo gallery, which seems pretty lame brained.

Finally, there’s the “fantasy mode”, which attempts to make this look like an interactive title. It’s a nice idea, but unfortunately doesn’t go very far. You can choose a scene to watch with this feature, and then move around to one of four points in the scene, causing you to go from loop to loop. Even if you choose the cumshot, you’re going into a loop and you won’t get out of it until you choose another area. You also have the same choices regardless of the scene, be it straight, lesbian, or anal. It’s a nice idea, but one that was already done well over a year ago by VCA in White Lightning, and unfortunately it was done much better there also.

Themes: Straight, lesbian, toys, spanking, masturbation, anal, group, and rimming (male > female)

Raincoat Factor: I’m honestly not sure what to say. It should be extreme since every scene goes directly to the sex, but so much of the feature is done so poorly that I’m not really sure how anybody could get a decent wank out of it.

Overall: With the exception of about twenty minutes total throughout the feature, this one sucks.

Note to Adam & Eve / Destiny Productions: The nicest thing you could do to people with this is to give it away to them. Otherwise most of them are going to feel pretty ripped off.

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