Adult DVD Review: The New Devil In Miss Jones
For those who don't know (or couldn't surmise from the title),
The New Devil in Miss Jones (at
http://www.sextoysex.com/sex/start/view.html?a=buyad&pnum=VIV9604
1) is a remake of the classic adult film The Devil in Miss
Jones. Maybe that's why this film is so good. I never saw the
original, but if this remake is a faithful copy of the original
scene-for-scene, I can see what made the original Devil a
classic. The idea behind the movie is that good.
The premise of this particular movie is that a woman (Miss
Jones, of course) - played by Savanna Samson - gets the chance
to live the last day of her life over; along with all the
mistakes, second-chances, wishful fantasies, and regrets that
that do-over entails. Jenna Jameson plays the devil who gives
her that chance.
This is one adult movie you will find yourself watching over a
second time just for the plot and not for the sex. The reason
for this is two-fold: 1. The plot is very engaging for a
skin-flick; and 2. You have to watch it a second time for the
story to make sense. That's just my opinion.
When I watched The New Devil in Miss Jones the first time, the
plot made no sense at all. And this was given the fact that I
knew partially what the premise of the movie was going in
(namely, I knew that a woman called Miss Jones had a second
chance to live her life filled with lust and passion). You know
that feeling you get when you start watching a 2-hour movie one
hour or so into it? Or watching the sequel to a movie before you
watch the very necessary prequel? That's how I felt when I
started to watch this movie and through most of it: completely
lost on the plot points, like someone had dropped me into the
middle of the story. Yet I knew I'd been watching the movie
since the beginning, and there was no prequel to this movie.
However,just when you begin to chalk up the plot to some
artistic nonsense that the script-writer thought up, a
collection of story elements that you can't comprehend when you
string them together, the story starts to make sense during the
latter part of New Devil. So if you're trying to understand the
plot during the first part of the movie, hang in there.
But even when the story made no sense to me, I was still set to
give the movie an enthusiastic recommendation (4 out of 5 stars)
- not necessarily a top one (5 out of 5) - based on the sex
alone. The anticipation - from all that I'd heard - of the Devil
in Miss Jones story and this story's failure (in my own mind, up
until that point) only served to detract a little from the
overall movie. The sex is great.
The best sex scene is the last one. Now for classification
purposes, the New Devil DVD splits this sequence into two
separate trysts. But when I saw it, it was hard to tell where
one ended and the next one began. The scenes follow closely on
the heels of one another, and they take place in the same
setting and atmosphere.
The scene(s) is/are basically set in a red-lit Miss Jones'
house. Now, usually I think sex scenes in a room with red
lighting is a little cheesy, but somehow the scene seems to work
here. I think it's because red is (a lot of people consider) the
devil's color. And besides the lighting makes the scene really
look decadent and depraved, which is in keeping with the theme
of the movie: good, wholesome girl gone very bad.
The sequence starts out as an orgy romp with a lot of BDSM
(including a gimmick with hypodermic needles that made me turn
my head away squeamishly) and pares down to just Samson and her
two boy-toys. I can't really describe to you exactly what goes
on (it is hard to see in this light) but like I said, the entire
sequence is hot. And I didn't really understand the whole thing
with the snakes; I think the concept might have been taken from
the original Devil in Miss Jones. But what the hey? That part is
hot too.
The first sex scene is a gangbang where Vicky Vette gets done by
four guys on top of a garbage dumpster while about a half dozen
or so other naked guys watch with members in hand (you know,
your basic run-of-the-mill stuff :)). The guys (those
participating) lick, suck, stroke, anal-ize, and (*ahem*)
"splash" all over her and her bountiful boobs. This scene is
just plain filthy in a very, very good way and is the kind of
dirty sex men dream about.
Samson has a boy-girl scene, where she does anal, with Nick
Manning in and out of a pool. She also has a lesbian scene with
Jameson (I bet you saw that coming). Both scenes are solid and
equally good.
There are a couple of dungeon sex scenes in The New Devil in
Miss Jones. There's one in which Jameson takes a strap-on to the
young Rachel Rotten (whose name seems fitting for this feature
film). In the other scene, Angelica Sin (another appropriate
moniker) and Roxanne Hall tie up Dick Smothers, Jr - the male
lead in Devil - and make him watch as they screw/lick the crap
out of each other. Not being able to be part of the Sin - Hall
coochie-petting party? Now that's torture...
Just a note, for a while now I've thought that Jameson has a
man's spirit trapped inside a starlet's body. She only does
other girls (and her husband) on camera, and she screws like
alpha-males do. She stands her sex partners on their hands, she
makes them flip their legs over their heads in the pile-driver
position, etc, all in the name of coochie-eating and tossing
salad. Her sexual performance is not an issue in New Devil.
When it comes to the portrayal of the devil, Jameson isn't a
great actor, but she definitely looks the part. First of all,
she's always had that conceited,
walk-into-the-room-and-all-eyes-on-me strut. Secondly, like I
intimated before, she's got the whole carnal,
I-will-consume-you-in-bed thing going for her. Plus her eye have
that cunning/evil/knowing look about them (which they've always
had anyway), and she wears red (duh) a lot in the film.
As for the portrayals of other major players in New Devil, I
thought Georgina Spelvin - the original Ms. Jones, by the way -
turned in an excellent performance. Smothers was also very good.
On the other hand, even though Sampson was nominated in the
category of Best Actress in a Film for the upcoming AVN awards ,
I didn't think her acting was that good. That is, up until the
very end sequence (which I wouldn't dare give away).
But, to reiterate, The New Devil in Miss Jones has very good sex
and one of the best plots I've seen in a porno movie since The
Masseuse. Incidentally, Jenna Jameson appears in - and won an
award for - a remake (which came out last year) of that movie
also. Speak of the devil...