A Bring Out the GIMP (Girls in Merciless Peril) Movie Review


Dream Date

Reviewed by Ralphus


I've said it before. It should be my mantra. It all comes down to casting to make a bondage film work. The most important thing is to find an attractive victim. If the girl is cute and we feel attraction to her, then we'll want to see her get tied up and have bad things happen to her. So personally, if the girl doesn't move me, I'll have a hard time enjoying her movie.

Dream Date is being promoted as Forbidden Video's first interracial Dark Side production. It stars newcomer Velvet Rose as Susan, a light-skinned black girl with blonde and pink cornrowed hair and a studded tongue. Body-wise, she's attractive, and she's got a cute face. Many might find her pretty. She just doesn't have the look that I find appealing. Nonetheless, I'm not going to hold that against her. But I am going to hold that against the movie.

The film does have one positive attribute in its casting, however. The male lead is Kyle Stone, probably my favorite FV actor. Here, he is hilarious in his role as the nerdy loser, "Bob", such a total geek that I was laughing out loud from the very beginning. It's a great comic performance, particularly from the start when he calls Susan and sets up a date. This one had great potential to go somewhere.

But when the two actually get together and have their date, he sits there like a stooge, not saying a word, just fantasizing about having consensual sex with her, which we see in several dream sequences. So the first 40 minutes is basically just a comic setup and then nothing but hardcore sex between Bob and Susan, which is fine if you're wanting to see a hardcore vanilla porn flick (or should I say a vanilla and chocolate one?). But that's boring to me. I want to see bondage and forced sex. And it takes a long while to get to that point in the movie.

Finally, at the end of the date, Bob makes his move on Susan, and she knees the nerd in the balls and tries to run out. But he grabs her and pulls her into the bedroom. He gags her with a pillowcase and gropes her on the bed. Eventually, he ties her face down spreadeagled on the bed. He pulls down her panties and spanks her a bit. Susan cries though her gag but doesn't exactly act like she's giving a lot of resistance.

He then takes out a dildo and pretends to insert it inside her ass, but unlike the rest of the film to this point, the action suddenly becomes simulated and we don't see a thing. Later, he has her flipped over on her back and he uses the dildo on her pussy, but the director has to resort to shots of her face and strategically framed angles of her legs so that we see no actual insertion.

Next, Susan is tied on the bed with her legs spread wide and tied to a spreader bar, with her hands bound in front to the bar as well. Bob removes his belt and folds it over, snapping it hard against his own palm, and her eyes widen as he approaches her bare pussy. This is where the film could have really taken off, but instead he just lightly flicks the belt over it, puny little love taps.

There is a bit of bondage sex for a minute or so, and that's pretty good, but halfway though, Bob cuts her ropes and lets her suck his dick, and the action becomes at once consensual and hardcore again. He cums in her open mouth, on her studded tongue, and she smiles and coos as the music turns sweet and romantic. She enjoyed it! How lovely.

I have to admit, as a whole, the film wasn't bad. The acting is good, it's kind of funny, and it's skillfully directed. But what is Forbidden Video trying to do? I'm becoming convinced that they don't "get it" anymore, as any of their previous bondage films with a bit of an edge are now removed from their site, and their new stuff has a playful, lighter tone that works against them. They are trying to play it safe, and this one is a perfect example. A different actress might have improved this one for me, but unless Forbidden changes their direction, it may not make much difference anyway.


My Grade: C+

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