Carnal Desires (1999) Reviews

• Cute movie

  Kenny-362000-08-20

  I just saw this movie early this morning. It's a cute little soft core porno. Interesting idea. Nothing that's going to win any awards and nothing for hard core fans, but nice and fanciful. The movie gets a little involved with who's having sex with whom. The main character/masseuse and his business partner. Then the main character and his prospective loan agents mistress, then his wife, then the loan agent and the masseuse's business partner. Would be a good idea to have a pencil and piece a paper to keep things straight.

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• Lots of sex, and a good dose of Susan Featherly....I give it a B.

  Smooth B2003-05-01

  You can tell by the name of the film, "Carnal Desires", what you're gonna get--a flimsy plot, lots of simulated sex, and good looking babes. If that's what you're looking for, this is your film. I could stop here, but I'll elaborate on the particulars a bit more. Steven Ginsburg is Mick, a "massage therapist" looking to open his own shop. He goes to the husband of one of his regular clients for a little seed money. You pretty much know the tale after this...obviously, he's sleeping with the woman, but not only that, he's sleeping with another girl (Susan Featherly), with yet another one (Peggy Trentini) he's THIS close to getting into bed. Oh, and you can't forget about Mia. Yep, this guy gets around. I lost track of the plot after this, since the story did a disappearing act halfway through. There were plenty of sex scenes, though, so someone watching this film probably wouldn't notice the dialogue getting repetitive and the story going absolutely nowhere. Women: B+ (A good selection of women to choose from in this film.) Sex: B+ (A number of sex scenes, most of them quite good. About two-thirds of the way through, the masseuse guy is banging not one, but two women simultaneously. Sound impossible? First he's having sex with the wife, then the scene fades into another scene with him having sex with Susan Featherly. It goes back and forth like this all the way through the scene. Susan's facial expressions are hilarious in this scene.) Story: D+ (It does its job, if the primary objective was to get from one sex scene to another. There's a big train wreck among the characters at the end which will confuse you...trust me, you'll be confused.) Overall: B (The "Story" grade lowers the overall a bit, but the good looking women and the number of good sex scenes made up for it. Not a great softcore film, but it's okay.)

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• OK SOFT CORE

  bazdol2001-02-11

  A pretty good representative of the soft core genre; I always like to see Mia in a film, although I can do without Stephen Ginsburg who is unconvincing as the masseur stud. The picture moves along at a moderately bright pace but the simulated sex could be better.

• Lots of good looking women

  kah-22001-10-26

  Caught part of this film on Cinemax. I'm not even sure what the plot was--something about a dude running a massage parlor. What I do know is that there was a series of absolutely stunning women naked. Since this is a T&A film of the "Skinemax" genre, I'd have to say it's a damn good one. Not only are all the women gorgeous, but it looks like all of them have NATURAL large breasts! If you like beautiful women naked, this is a good film to see.

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• A step up for Tamara Landry. SPOILERS!

  BlackJack_B2003-10-05

  I have to admit that Tamara Landry, whose Vulcan-like acting was a huge turn-off in The Pamela Principle and the Kama Sutra series steps it up a bit and shows some life in Carnal Desires. She looks mighty good here and so does Susan Featherly. The story is really out there, with the strange story of six people whose sexual affairs intertwine with each other. It would be too difficult to explain the plot and what happens, but there's a crazy whopper of a finale and they certainly found a way to have it end happily. Yes, there's a happy ending despite what happens in the events of this film. Pure cop out! Still, I have to judge the actors here (who do a cheesy but decent job, BTW). Steve Ginsburg, who plays Mick the masseuse who gets involved with all the women in the female cast, is kind of a goofy looking leading man. He has a 50's style haircut, a long nose, and he's a bit like Steve Curtis' character from Illicit Lovers. You'd also think that Peggy Trentini would be his sister as they both have long noses. Trentini looks like Elizabeth Kaitan; they could pass for twins. Mia is kind of nice, but she needs to have her rack raised up and quick. And the bald guy who plays Tony, the token extra actor? He needed to speak up; I couldn't hear him. Like Jay Madison's softies, all of Eric Gibson's films start with spoilers of what you'll see, too. At least the women aren't as hideous to the eyes as Illicit Lovers were.

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