Better Things to Do

Francois Clousot hogs many a screen credit in this somewhat overblown Digital Playground B-movie, which has an amusing scene midway where co-star Jane Wilde explicitly mocks the highly derivative screenplay by one "Travis Canyon". As she says, there have been too many movies lately using the "live a day over & over again" fantasy gimmick of "Groundhog Day", and this is surely one of them.

Like most recent Dig. Playground DVDs of late, it is presented as a TV series from the website, numbering six episodes, with the repeated credits sequences bloating the overall running time (to an unbearable 205 minutes total).

Clousot has an unusual structure in which the two leading ladies Katana Kombat and Jane Wilde serve as sort of tag team performers: KK starring in the first half of the show and Wilde taking over for the second half.

Unconvincing premise posits a vintage dress, bought by Wilde in some shop as a birthday present for pal KK, being cursed or haunted or whatever, causing the lady wearing it to have a strange experience that ends badly, but turns out to be only an erotic dream, followed by the same scene and time frame repeated endlessly. The mechanism of how the dress works is poorly handled by Clousot, especially since it is repeatedly removed for the requisite sex scenes.

Light-hearted dialog spoken primarily by Wilde, who it turns out has the larger role even though Katana gets all the billing and DVD cover girl promotion, is the show's strong suit. Clousot has a recurring NonSex role as a cab driver who figures prominently in the action, and seems bemused by the borderline silliness of the fantasy that underpins the action.