Jack’s Playground #25

Studio: Digital Playground
Director: Robby D.
Cast: Tera Patrick, Rocki Roads, Nikki Benz, Kellie Tyler, Melanie Jagger, Sandra Romain, Randi Wright

Watching archival footage of current and former pornstars, which is what the Tera Patrick and Rocki Roads segments of Jack’s Playground 25 consists of, makes me feel like I have stumbled into a temporal anomaly. They might still be young and pliant, but I can’t shake the feeling, since both their scenes (Tera’s in Budapest, Rocki’s in a barn) are a few years old, that both actresses are actually wizened crones somewhere. You know, like Helen Mirren in Excalibur.

Causing further distress is the sight of Nikki Benz in a string bikini doing the Lucite-heeled Porn Walk (camera at ass level as it tracks her up the stairs). Benz looks like she is about to fly into bits, as five separate parts of her anatomy move in opposite directions.

It is hard to make sense of Jack’s Playground, since scenes not shot for the series were mixed in with scenes that were, and still other scenes seemed like they might not have made the cut for yet a third movie.

I don’t know – that might be part of the charm.

There is also a casual mean-spiritedness that betrays old Digital Playground feuds. Again, this might seem appealing to insiders, but what purpose is served in calling Melanie Jagger a pig? That editor/MC Cousin Nick P. needed to intrude as much as he did underlined the the lack of worthwhile action.

It is fun seeing Tera in her pre-boob-job days (appearing with, the caption needlessly points out, “a couple of Euro fags”) and the Rocki Roads scene, looking a lot like an old Anna Nicole Smith Playboy video pictorial, is a nice piece of history (and ass – I forgot to mention a nice piece of ass).