Dan O'Connell's hit Girlfriends Films series "Road Queen" wound down to a halt recently, with much ballyhoo about its demise after 35 volumes and departure of lead roler Deauxma from mainstream Adult scene. But 7 years ago he tried a sort of spin off called "Bus Stops" that lasted for just three related episodes (all having the same basic cast) before mercifully pulling the plug.
First episode, starring India Summer "as Sage" (why only she gets a character name is left hanging), is thoroughly sloppy, nonsensical and an insult to any regular Girlfriends' viewer's intelligence or loyalty.
In place of Deuxma's legendary 1951 purple dreadnought motoring down the Western US's highways, we have India behind the wheel of a vintage VW Microbus, as close as the lengthy video gets to its Bus Stops title. When she stops en route to a home she's visiting, superstar Prinzzess becomes a squatter in the front seat, insisting India drive her to anywhere.
It's a dumb and pointless beginning to an even more pointless saga, but I guess it qualified as a "meet cute", so necessary in rom-com tradition. Yes, this is a Chick Flick, in the most basic definition of that term = hot lesbo action.
O'Connell errs right away by delivering one of the label's worst supporting casts, a mistake only magnified by starting off with the top of the line in Adult with its two leading ladies. I didn't recognize a single one of the other seven actresses, though I should have remembered Jane = Noname Jane from her memorable Adam & Eve roles using the far better moniker Violet Blue.
First half of the film dwells clumsily on Prinzzess, palmed off by India on a friend (the aforementioned Jane) to "turn her out" for the lesbian icon. India's smooth performance is a wonderful depiction of a self-assured lesbian acting as crass as any male Lothario in film cliché terms, and it's a shame O'Connell wasted her contribution on such a nothing project. She provided the makings of something special.
After Violet, I mean Jane, finishes her forced sex on Prinzzess, it's time for India to do the same, and that makes the first hour's sex content extremely repetitive.
I expected the final two vignettes involving the rest of the cast to be a separate story, but am still confused as to what they represented. We have uncredited older lady KC Kelly briefly introduced as presumably mother to young teen Elise Graves, latter sentimentally leaving the nest to go off to school. I haven't seen the two sequels yet, but it's evident from their sex-rundown that Elise is just a kept woman living with KC, not her daughter. None of that is imparted in cryptic Episode 1.
Instead we get extremely poor editing and continuity as we go from Prinzzess left stranded on the highway near a prison named Stafford Creek, then a jump cut to Prinzzess entering a motel room with Moxxie Maddron (a busty actress, providing the big rack every Girlfriends video requires and hardly provided by the flat and natural India plus Prinzzess) and Naomi Doll. These young actresses can't act, and Doll apparently never made another video apart from the "Bus Stop" series.
Essentially, Prinzzess is in a big hurry to get downstairs and coaxes the two girls to hump each other, not leaving the motel room until they get it on satisfactorily. The sex scene is desultory and only memorable in the Girlfriends canon of 600 videos to date (or approximately 2400 individual scenes if you've drunk the Porno kool aid regarding counting) if you happen to be the world's only Naomi Doll fan. She's about as obscure a performer as I've seen in a mainstream feature.
I inferred that this incarnation of Prinzzess, unlike the uppity free-spirit/hippie of the first two scenes, is sort of a madam or pimp in the lesbian parallel world, and sure enough, the final scene has her returning to the motel room to kick out Moxxie and Naomi, replacing them with three other obscuro actresses. The resulting improvised scene is beneath contempt, as the improv dialog randomly posits two of the three girls as teachers, with Eilse Graves finally returning as a jail-bait student, so that a three-way sex scene can be executed. It's almost a four-way, but the group-sex is decidedly brief as Prinzzess exits mid-way just as she did before.
None of this adds up, the characters are left undeveloped, and the mystery of who Prinzzess is or whether she has multiple personalities is left unresolved until (hopefully) the future 2 episodes in which even mysterious KC Kelly returns to have sex with Elise and others. Don't worry, I'll be watching all 3 in my quest to watch ALL of the Girlfirends productions, minus the terrible crap they also distribute from other, less talented sources (like Andrea Nobili, James Deen, Viv Thomas, and Mills & Stills).
First episode, starring India Summer "as Sage" (why only she gets a character name is left hanging), is thoroughly sloppy, nonsensical and an insult to any regular Girlfriends' viewer's intelligence or loyalty.
In place of Deuxma's legendary 1951 purple dreadnought motoring down the Western US's highways, we have India behind the wheel of a vintage VW Microbus, as close as the lengthy video gets to its Bus Stops title. When she stops en route to a home she's visiting, superstar Prinzzess becomes a squatter in the front seat, insisting India drive her to anywhere.
It's a dumb and pointless beginning to an even more pointless saga, but I guess it qualified as a "meet cute", so necessary in rom-com tradition. Yes, this is a Chick Flick, in the most basic definition of that term = hot lesbo action.
O'Connell errs right away by delivering one of the label's worst supporting casts, a mistake only magnified by starting off with the top of the line in Adult with its two leading ladies. I didn't recognize a single one of the other seven actresses, though I should have remembered Jane = Noname Jane from her memorable Adam & Eve roles using the far better moniker Violet Blue.
First half of the film dwells clumsily on Prinzzess, palmed off by India on a friend (the aforementioned Jane) to "turn her out" for the lesbian icon. India's smooth performance is a wonderful depiction of a self-assured lesbian acting as crass as any male Lothario in film cliché terms, and it's a shame O'Connell wasted her contribution on such a nothing project. She provided the makings of something special.
After Violet, I mean Jane, finishes her forced sex on Prinzzess, it's time for India to do the same, and that makes the first hour's sex content extremely repetitive.
I expected the final two vignettes involving the rest of the cast to be a separate story, but am still confused as to what they represented. We have uncredited older lady KC Kelly briefly introduced as presumably mother to young teen Elise Graves, latter sentimentally leaving the nest to go off to school. I haven't seen the two sequels yet, but it's evident from their sex-rundown that Elise is just a kept woman living with KC, not her daughter. None of that is imparted in cryptic Episode 1.
Instead we get extremely poor editing and continuity as we go from Prinzzess left stranded on the highway near a prison named Stafford Creek, then a jump cut to Prinzzess entering a motel room with Moxxie Maddron (a busty actress, providing the big rack every Girlfriends video requires and hardly provided by the flat and natural India plus Prinzzess) and Naomi Doll. These young actresses can't act, and Doll apparently never made another video apart from the "Bus Stop" series.
Essentially, Prinzzess is in a big hurry to get downstairs and coaxes the two girls to hump each other, not leaving the motel room until they get it on satisfactorily. The sex scene is desultory and only memorable in the Girlfriends canon of 600 videos to date (or approximately 2400 individual scenes if you've drunk the Porno kool aid regarding counting) if you happen to be the world's only Naomi Doll fan. She's about as obscure a performer as I've seen in a mainstream feature.
I inferred that this incarnation of Prinzzess, unlike the uppity free-spirit/hippie of the first two scenes, is sort of a madam or pimp in the lesbian parallel world, and sure enough, the final scene has her returning to the motel room to kick out Moxxie and Naomi, replacing them with three other obscuro actresses. The resulting improvised scene is beneath contempt, as the improv dialog randomly posits two of the three girls as teachers, with Eilse Graves finally returning as a jail-bait student, so that a three-way sex scene can be executed. It's almost a four-way, but the group-sex is decidedly brief as Prinzzess exits mid-way just as she did before.
None of this adds up, the characters are left undeveloped, and the mystery of who Prinzzess is or whether she has multiple personalities is left unresolved until (hopefully) the future 2 episodes in which even mysterious KC Kelly returns to have sex with Elise and others. Don't worry, I'll be watching all 3 in my quest to watch ALL of the Girlfirends productions, minus the terrible crap they also distribute from other, less talented sources (like Andrea Nobili, James Deen, Viv Thomas, and Mills & Stills).