DVD Review: Skye Blue’s “Pearl Necklace”

"When these slutly little starlets finally get their wish by being brought to new heights in having all their holes filled knowing that the culmination would be a deliciously wet string of pearls."

No, this is not a grammatically suspect Jeopardy! question but part of the liner notes of Platinum Blue's "Pearl Necklace", a study of the "most romantic gift of all". Read our review after the gap.
- G. Ponante

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Pearl Necklace

Studio: Platinum Blue
Director: Skye Blue
Cast: Cassie Courtland, Naudia Nyce, Demi Marx, Lexi Lamour, Nadia Styles, Brittany Starr, Nick Manning

Review by Gram Ponante

While this movie is not, as I had hoped, a takeoff on "Girl with a Pearl Earring", there is plenty to satisfy people who like pop culture in their pornography.

The Pearl Necklace is traditionally the act what happens when a male shoots a ropy volley across his partner's neck. In this movie an actual pearl necklace is used as the jumping off point for ropy volleys to be shot across various locations only to have the real necklace rubbed on them.

See? That's how the filmmakers got around Noam Chomsky.

In a series of prettily-shot scenes, porn stars of the platinum-haired, titan-breasted variety (like Brittany Starr) and menacing brunettes (like Nadia Styles) cavort in attractively-lit bedrooms or prepare themselves for porn studs in lube-y Sapphic shower scenes.

Director Skye Blue has described her style as "Vivid-Lite" and as such the movie seems much more accessible. While the same production values apply, there seems to be less of an effort made in the script department, which is good, because Vivid sometimes falls flat. On the other hand, the budget for Pearl Necklace isn't so high that genuinely dirty girls like Naudia Nyce get priced out.

The throughline extends only to voiceovers and the pearl necklace conceit. The same pearl necklace appears to have been cleaned and used in every scene. That's economy!

"I fantasized about what it would be like to get my own pearl necklace," narrator Starr says. "I pictured the most romantic guy giving his girl the most romantic gift of all."

I'm not complaining, but if that's romance, I'm going to register at Krispy Kreme for my wedding.

Nick Manning, who co-produced this movie, recognizes that he is a very pretty man and that this film is to be marketed specifically to couples. He can't resist winking at the genre every now and then. In the final scene, in which Starr finally gets her pearl necklace (the movie has been Starr's dream sequence), Manning can't keeep himself from saying, "I hope you get doused."

Manning indeed douses her, and on the neck, too. We have title!

· Platinum Blue Productions (platinumblueproductions.com)
· Order: "Pearl Necklace" (Adult DVD Empire)

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