Hook-Ups 2
Wicked Pictures

Genre: Vignette

Director: Mark Stone

Cast: Aria, Dee, Dolorian, Flick Shagwell, Krystal, Aria, Mia Smiles, Temptation,
Mary Carey, Taylor St. Claire, Sabrine Maui, Evan Stone, Chris Cannon, Lee
Stone, Steve Hatcher

Length: 113 minutes

Date of Production: 1/24/03

Extra's: All Access the making of: Hook-ups 2, Interview
with Temptation & Lee Stone, Star Galleries, Photo Gallery, Star Stats, Trailers,
Wicked's Award Winners & Nominations, Promo Materials, Company Profile, Wicked
Web, Wicked Casino, Free Speech Promo.

Audio/Video Quality: Presented in 1.33:1 ratio full frame
color, the picture is pretty good throughout the video. The lighting being
different with each new vignette causes the look to be a little inconsistent.
The audio is available in Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0. The only difference between
the two that I could hear is the music is mixed for the different channels and
some reverb on the scene intros.

Review: I'm not going to break this one down scene by scene
because the scenes weren't that hot. I think the concept behind the movie is
a good one and has been done a few times before by other people with mixed
results. I would think the female performer choosing who she has a scene with
would make it a hit no matter what, I guess I'm wrong, or maybe the choice
wasn't completely all theirs to make. Who knows? The dialogue seemed very coached
and scripted at times; this thought is illustrated in the behind the scenes
feature where
the director
is
telling Temptation to say she likes cum on Ice cream...she doesn't think that
sounds like a tasty combo. Mild heat is generated in the girl-girl scenes with
Aria, Flick, and Krystal in one and Taylor and Mary in the other. The first
scene with Dee and Dolorian has the two girls play with each other, with good
results, before Evan Stone comes in.Once the guy shows up, the scene slowly
loses the momentum and heat the girls together had started. Mia Smiles has
some nice tease footage in her intro which was promising but once again, when
the actual scene starts, the action fizzles. The last
scene with Sabrine Maui doesn't even seem like it belongs in this video since
it doesn't follow the format all the scenes before it had. All but the last
scene
start
with
some slow motion images of the girl(s) in the scene with a voiceover talking
about why they chose the partners they chose or what they would like done to
them. The last scene just has the slo-mo tease footage and no explanation on
why Sabrine chose her partner. My biggest gripe is that all of the scenes were
run of the mill scenes with very few memorable moments. For those that like
to know, condoms were used in all of the boy-girl scenes and
the
only
anal
was
in the
first
girl-girl
scene with
Aria having a toy used on her. One annoying thing about the DVD I found while
writing this review is, the chapter breaks seem randomly placed throughout
the video; some take you to the tease footage while some take you to various
points in a scene.

Overall Thoughts: The women look great, but the sex failed
to deliver the excitement and energy that would be expected from two performers
that truly enjoy having scenes with each other. If this is a continuing series,
maybe Wicked should look into using the same premise only keep it girl-girl
only.
All in all, it's nice idea with some very cool possibilities it was just poorly
executed.
Skip
It.