Payback's a Bitch

Marvin Love is producing and directing content for the once-mighty porn label Digital Playground, and his work is not up to snuff. This rom-com starring Kira Noir began with an intriguing, light and fluffy opening segment, but quickly deteriorated to gonzo filler and the corniest of stupid endings. It makes one yearn for the days when DP made some very fine videos, ranging from the hit "Pirates" movies to many comedies by the late Robby D.

Kira, who constantly turns to the camera to make dumb asides commenting on the action, is plotting to get back at her ex-boyfriend Ricky Johnson by marrying his dad, played by Lexington Steele. How this scheme backfires is the subject of the story by Kelly (according to IMDb, a mainstream actress-writer who also scripts many Digital Playground porn features), but it's insultingly unfunny. Watching this latter-day scripted porn often makes me into a conspiracy theorist: are they bad on purpose to help speed up the rush of porn toward the all-sex gonzo mode?

Also appearing are relatively new talent Chanel Camryn and Jasmine Sherni in merely okay scenes. By the end I was hard up for entertainment, but spotting a fave of mine, Brit porn actress Katy Jayne pop up in a fleeting bit part at the end was all I got.