Channel Island Girls

This early Jacqueline Lovell flick is your standard soft-core snoozer, with all the flaws that make these kinds of DVDs suck: few close-ups, no spreads, poorly faked girl girl scenes and no pink.

Granted, the girls are pretty hot w/ a nice mix of natural and nicely augmented tops, but this is completely uninspired. DVD features about 6 or 7 scenes where the girls romp on the beach and in the water, very suggestive but doing nothing. The bulk of the scenes involve Selena w/ Sara aka Jacqueline Lovell (nice scene w/ the 2 on a boat using a shower-head, decent scene getting friendly on the beach). Some of these get kinda racy, but always leave you wanting (needing) more.

The DVD features standard Peach (Vivid's soft-core division) extras, which are merely clips from other videos they want you to buy. I recently bought several Peach DVDs in a package and find one to be more boring than the next - extremely tame. I can get the lame full frontal they show on HBO. Only check this out if you can get it dirt cheap.

This relatively hard to find DVD from the soft core Vivid Studio probably isn't worth the effort of tracking down unless, like me, you're a fan of sexy and talented Jacqueline Lovell. The video was reportedly produced in 1996, just before Ms. Lovell became known as the star of several Full Moon / Surrender Cinema productions like Femalien, Head of the Family, and The Exotic House of Wax. She was working under the name Sara St. James at the time, though Vivid curiously spells her stage name "Sarah" St. James.

Channel Island Girls is perhaps slightly more explicit than most of the work Lovell did for Surrender, though still very much in the soft core range. Basically, she romps around fully nude, oils herself up with suntan lotion and sunbathes, models some lacy lingerie, takes a shower on the deck of a yacht, and at the climax of the video, gets cozy with her costar Selena for a steamy lesbian love scene. The plot, if you can call it that, consists of Selena introducing each segment by describing her vacation adventures to a friend over the phone. There are three other actresses / models in the video too, but Selena is the only cast member with a speaking part. Through most of the video, the soundtrack consists of the usual pulsing mood music. I was a bit disappointed Jacqueline didn't get any dialog since she's a perfectly competent actress - considerably more accomplished than the likes of Selena, I dare say. Of course I know most of the audience for this type of production could care less if there's any dialog at all and the video does deliver plenty of what viewers will want to see: lots of bare skin.

The DVD features an abundance of extras, including an entire second side of clips from other Vivid releases, mostly strip acts and a few other travelogue themed shoots like this one. There's also some amusing behind the scenes footage in which Lovell complains of being cold and having a bad hair day. Incidentally, during these out takes, the director and Selena both refer to her as "Jackie," not "Sara." Ah, the confusing lives of adult video actresses.

Shot in 1996 on Catalina Island, just off the coast of Southern California, this video delivers visually stunning location and talent. Selena and Sara St. James burn up the screen as we watch them go from best friends to intimate lovers. A must see for any fan of Sara!