From the stars and makers of the website www.SuicideGirls.com, comes the DVD entitled Suicide Girls: The First Tour. Featuring a sampling of girls from...
From the stars and makers of the website www.SuicideGirls.com, comes the DVD entitled Suicide Girls: The First Tour. Featuring a sampling of girls from the website, the film chronicles a series of burlesque shows, interspersed with beautifully shot magazine-ad-esque striptease segments and lots of crazy antics.
THE MOVIE
Two words: Hot, and hot! Suicide Girls: The First Tour features over an hour of sexy, badass, pierced, tattooed ladies strutting around in every costume imaginable. Dialogue is limited, but really, who cares? This is basically soft-core pornography, and it’s a beautiful thing. But unlike most porn, the Suicide Girls gives us a very pro-woman outlook on nudity and the art of striptease. These women are proud of their bodies, and the people in the audience aren’t just skeazy middle-aged men; men and women from every walk of life have come to see the Suicide Girls perform. They’re hot, they’re powerful and sometimes they’re a little scary (like the one who bit one of her lovers so hard he had to get nine stitches).
There’s absolutely no plot, but Suicide Girls: The First Tour is fun to watch. In between clips of burlesque shows, the girls chat, MTV’s The Real World-style, with the camera about their lives. I’m unconvinced by the common assertion that they all get along extremely well, and not particularly fascinated by their descriptions of their “regular” lives. But they’re still really hot. Do the words “latex pasties” mean anything to you?
SOUND AND VISUALS
This DVD comes in standard TV Full Screen format and is in color. It features Dolby Digital 2.0 sound, with a closed captioning option.
PACKAGING AND LAYOUT
Standard packaging but decked out with cool Polaroid-style photos of the girls, upon which credits are scrawled. The menu layout is similar.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The DVD features a few outtakes from an interview with Missy Suicide, the founder of the suicide girls, occasionally (and hilariously) having trouble forming sentences. There is also some humorous footage of the girls playing a prank on a coworker, as well as the music video for the song “Shake Your Blood” by Probot.
LAST WORDS
All in all, there’s not much to this film except nudity, dancing and body modifications. But really, what else is there in life?
DVD Film Score: A+ for hot; F for plot
DVD Sound and Visuals Score: B
DVD Packaging and Layout Score: N/A
DVD Extras Score: C
DVD Overall Score: A-
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Rating: **** For the three of you unfamiliar with the Suicide Girls, let me explain. They are young, tattooed and pierced women who strike an erotic pose...
Rating: **** For the three of you unfamiliar with the Suicide Girls, let me explain. They are young, tattooed and pierced women who strike an erotic pose on the net in a tightly knit community of similar individuals. It’s grrrrl power (or savvy marketing depending on how cynical you are), and this is a chronicle of some of those girls’ first tour around the continent as they put on a burlesque show. You’ll see interviews with the ladies, their acts and photo shoots. The less astute viewer will think it’s really just naked punk chicks dancing around, but as the hilarious photo shoot in San Francisco proves, you can’t easily classify anything when it comes to the Suicide Girls.
This is a slick film. It realizes that its hook is young, naked females, but you’ll find yourself caring more about the interviews than you will about the stripteases and photo shoots. That’s what separates this from softcore porn. These are real people with real dreams and desires. You won’t find ladies crying about drug abuse and being sexually assaulted by family members. Instead you’ll hear about trying out for the Olympic swim team and doing teenage surgery on animals in order to harvest their livers.
Speaking on a more personal level, I went into this film with that cynical attitude I mentioned earlier. I do believe this is a marketing tool that is making Missy Suicide (the mind behind Suicide Girls) quite rich. But I also believe it started out as an empowerment tool that had the added benefit of making a lot of money. You can’t find much fault with that, but I cringe whenever I hear a term like “marketing a brand.” If anything kills the Suicide Girls, it will be this mindset.
If you like hot, tattooed and pierced females (and the bad leather
Lord knows I do), you’ll want to check this film out as soon as humanly possible. You’ll come for the flesh, but you’ll stay for the personalities.
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