Pornô!

The unimaginatively titled "Porno" is a passable softcore romp from Brazil. It contains three stories of the erotic, none of which are particularly interesting, but which at least provide opportunities for the performers to get naked.

The first story is something to do with lesbian high school girls hanging out and having sex. One of the girls seems visibly older than the other, and I thought perhaps she was a teacher and not a fellow student, but the plot description indicates she was a student too. I stopped paying attention and missed the ending, if it even had one, but I enjoyed the ease in which the girls were naked before the camera.

The second story is about a man and a woman who return home on a date and shower separately while the other one watches. The guy, aware he has an audience, starts playing with his penis and apparently masturbating. Then they have sex in a variety of uncomfortable locations in one of those montages that were a staple of erotic flicks back in the day. Surprisingly, in one scene, the man starts slapping the woman about the face during climax, and the movie treats this behaviour as normal. Again, I missed the ending/conclusion, if there even was one.

The last, longest story, is the weirdest of the lot, and introduces aspects of horror. A man is imprisoned by a beautiful blind woman who can apparently still see with the use of mirrors. The man wants to escape, the woman won't let him, so he hatches a surprisingly violent plan to escape - but not before he uses a grasshopper as a sex toy in bed with the woman, using the creature to tease her nipples and groin area.

I was mostly just bored by "Porno!", just waiting for it to end. My attention waned constantly, but it does have good nudity, and some not unerotic moments. I just didn't really care for what I was watching.

Brazilian 70's-to-80's sexploitation comedy subgenre called Pornochanchada used to have films with titles that were even more exploiting than the movies themselves. However, the so direct, explicit and unimaginative title of this one was not an exaggeration, at least for the first segment. The feature film is divided in three independent segments, and the first and worst of them has a script that seriously is identical to the plots of generic pornographic productions. The second segment is not good either, but is at least more sophisticated (and weird): until the (not that innovative) intentions be unveiled, there is kind of a suspense interwined with naked bodies. Things become much more interesting, innovative, artistic, and bizarre in the last segment, "The cricket", directed by John Doo. Pace is not always the best, but that home situation is near surreal, the supernatural element is quite nice, and the horror end is the best of all in the whole movie. Considering full film with all the three segments, it is a very irregular production from Boca do Lixo, becoming better as it advances. However, it has watchable sofcore scenes throughout it, certainly including the silly first segment. I give the movie three stars. Taking each segment separatedly, these would be the rates: 1st: As gazelas (Gazelles), directed by Luiz Castellini - Rate4 2nd: O prazer da virtude (Pleasure of virtue), directed by David Cardoso - Rate5 3rd: O Gafanhoto (The cricket), directed by John Doo - Rate7.