The Movie

Playboy: 2007 Video Playmate Calendar is a collection of twelve pictorial features of the 2007 playmates. The opinion I had from my review of the 2005 calendar is the same. At a quick glance, the calendar looks like a dream come true. It follows the Playboy tradition by producing a handful of very beautiful girls, who are more than eager to show a little skin. Unfortunately, the excitement that this video produces does not last too long. The truth is, it is quite boring and offers very little in both entertainment and replay value. For past reviews of the annual video calendar, please refer to DVD Talk's reviews of 2005 [review 1] [review 2...Read the entire review

The Movie

I know so much about Playboy TV, I had to Google it. Apparently, Playboy TV is a pay-per-view channel that is available on cable and satellite television services. It is owned by Playboy and features content that is more explicit than the regular pictorial sets their playmates pose for. It is unlike any other Playboy video I have reviewed (2005 Video Playmate Calendar, America's Sexist Bartenders, 2006 Playmate of the Year: Kara Monaco, Meth and Red: How to Throw a Party at the Playboy Mansion, The Ultimate Jenny McCarthy, Read the entire review

The Documentary

Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds is a traditional-style documentary from A&E Television Networks. The documentary focuses on Playboy's centerfold history and various female celebrities who have graced the magazine's cover. This includes famous faces from television, movies, music, sports, and fashion. What several of these women have in common is that Playboy was the fire behind their careers. After posing nude, they were able to continue have successful careers in the entertainment realm. The documentary originally aired on the A&E channel. This DVD version is unrated and contains brief nudity, whereas the original cable airing did not.

The documentary is divided in to ten chapters:
1. Introduction
2. The Photos, Not the Articles ...Read the entire review

The Collection

Have you ever been in a restaurant or a retail store and seen a beautiful female clerk servicing customers? The attractive blonde cashier? The gorgeous apparel girl who accidentally brushed up too close to you? The woman's smile behind the counter left you speechless? Have you then ever fantasized what it would be like if her clothes were to come off and she did a striptease to some cheesy Playboy music and told you about her turn-on's and turn-off's? If you have ever had the former (or something similar) happen to you and found yourself thinking about the latter, you are in luck.

Playboy Video packs together four of their video compilations from some of America's favorite places in Playboy: Women of Retail collection, complete with four different video releases: Playboy: Girls of Hooters, Playboy: Women of Wal-Mart, Playboy: Women of Starbuck'...Read the entire review

The Movie

McDonald's is one of the world's largest fast food chains. It is well known for the its Big Mac sandwich, quarter pounder with cheese, tasty French fries, and happy meals that come with a toy for the younger eaters. People of all ages love McDonald's. And I will admit, I have had more than one meal at the establishment. But over the past few years, I have found my tastes for greasy, overly salted prepared foods not to my liking. Regardless, Playboy picked it for their Women of... series and six girls heeded their call for bombshells behind the counter who willing to strip down naked and show the world their "goods".

While I can imagine having a fantasy about customer service gals "helping" you out more than they are expected to, I can't possible think ...Read the entire review

The MoviePlayboy's Girls of Hooters is an older Playboy video from the late nineties. The video featured a lengthy fifty-six minutes of female Hooters Restaurant employees from locations in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and Colorado doing what they do best, looking good. The eleven girls featured in this video all participate in some theme or another, strip off their clothes, and bare their "hooters". Of course, there is some interview/narration included and they reveal some information about themselves.

Part of the fascination of eating at Hooters is the scenery and by scenery, I mean the girls working. Hooters is known for their female servers wearing short shorts and white cotton shirts that point out the fact they have supple breasts. While eating at the resta...Read the entire review

The Movie

You can't go more than a block without seeing a Starbucks. They are a huge company with an establishment on every corner (figuratively speaking). Heck, in some of the higher traffic areas in big cities, you will find Starbucks across the street from each other, and sometimes in the same building on different floors. They are an enormous company and everyone loves their coffee. In Playboy's Women of Starbucks, Playboy video considers the fantasy of having beautiful girls who serve you coffee do a little bit more. Girls from across the country, mostly in California and a few from Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Kansas, and Texas join Playboy for some tasteful nudity, candid interviews, and narrations.

Women of Starbucks takes us on an adventure into a fa...Read the entire review

The Movie

Playboy's Women of Walmart is a documentary-style video with a mix of special interest. It is one of many themed features, where Playboy video went across America in search of the attractive female employees who were employed at Wal-Mart stores. They found seven girls in Colorado, California, Montana, New York, Illinois, and Florida. For those who do not know much about the company, Wal-Mart is a huge worldwide retailer that has well over a million employees, and almost four thousand stores in sixteen countries (including the US). Wal-Mart is well-known for their "rolling back" prices motto and in this Playboy video, seven different girls roll back their clothes and bare it all!

I don't know about you, but when I go into a Wal-Mart store I am not there...Read the entire review

The Movie

Chances are if you have not heard of Jenny McCarthy, then you have been living under rock for the last century or you just weren't around to find out just who she is. On the chance you don't know who she is (or you need a refresher), Miss McCarthy was a beautiful blonde vixen who found her way into the entertainment business by removing her clothes. Yes, folks, she got naked and everyone looked. In 1993, she took the title of Playboy's Miss October and was featured in a number of Playboy pictorials, magazines, videos, etc. Her frame came quickly, as she was picked as the 1994 Playmate of the Year.

But Jenny did not stop there, she moved into mainstream media and starred in a variety of television shows and movies. Notably, she had her own sketch comedy seri...Read the entire review

Background: As one of the reviewers at DVD Talk to concentrate his efforts on adult or mature fare, I tend to get dibs on some of the better porn and titles associated with the complete lack of social redeeming values that many of you find favor with. My point of view is that men like watching hot ladies in limited clothing (if any) bounce around and tantalize which is why I have enjoyed watching even the lighter titles like the Playboy 2006 Video Calendar, The Girls of McDonald, Hottest Housewives, and Playboy: At The Beach since I grew up reading (yeah, looking at the words in between my admittedly more concentrated focus with the pictures) Playboy de...Read the entire review

Background: Playboy Enterprises has been around for a very long time and their playmates are symbols of womanhood everywhere. The Playboy logo is one of the most well known in the universe, a telling fact about the depth the company has in regards to our public consciousness. Well, as popular as the company has been in the past, recent years find it struggling to stay afloat with the loss of circulation, closing of their clubs, and the virtual retirement of founder Hugh Hefner. Most of us have fond memories of the monthly magazine or the calendar they release but their airbrushed models just aren't cutting edge any more and the Playboy "look" means less with each passing generation. Having reviewed The Girls of McDonald and Read the entire review

The Movie

Meth & Red: How to Throw a Party at the Playboy Mansion! is a sixty minute feature about Redman and Method Man (hip-hop stars) and their crazy adventure at the Playboy Mansion. The feature depicts a series of events, with Redman and Method Man narrating. It begins with them running around on the Playboy grounds while Hef was out and turning the mansion upside after throwing a wild party. For a movie (and I use the term movie, feature, film, etc. very loosely), there is not much to Meth & Red: How to Throw a Party at the Playboy Mansion!. Redman and Method Man see lots of naked girls in various situations and it ends with a party on the Playboy grounds. If you are looking for some nakedness tied into a story, Meth & Red: How to Throw a Party at the Playboy Mansion! just might be of interest to you. I, however, found it to be dull and a waste of t...Read the entire review

The Movie

With a smile like that, it is no wonder...

In 2004, Playboy went around the United States looking for America's sexiest bartenders to star in a pictorial set and video feature. In Orlando, Florida, a blonde beauty named Kara Monaco was found. She was the featured girl in the 2004 DVD release of America's Sexiest Bartenders. After her stint as a sexy bartender, Kara found her way into other Playboy features as Miss June 2005. And now, i...Read the entire review

Movie: Fifty years ago, a man by the name of Hugh Hefner started something of a revolution in the United States by publishing a magazine called Playboy. The driving thrust of the magazine was to provide adult entertainment for men that included cheesecake pictures of attractive women (like Marilyn Monroe!), well written articles and interviews. More than just a magazine, it offered a lifestyle to an appreciative audience of men that had previously been vilified for wanting something different than the socially accepted and approved idea that a guy had to get a job, a wife, raise a family, and stick to a monogamous lifestyle counter to our genetic programming. Mr. Hefner was so successful that the term "Playboy" became a calling card for men willing to embrace a desire for the so-called good life, unencumbered by religious contracts with a single mate (especially in a day and age where 50% of all...Read the entire review

Movie: Whatever else people might say about Hugh Hefner and his publishing empire Playboy, the man opened up a lot of doors for sexual freedom and expression by virtue of his vision. Fifty years later, his magazine is a shadow of its former influence due to the multitude of competitors that have chiseled away at its market share but folks still find the appeal of Hefner's style worth looking into. Good old Hef' promoted a lifestyle that many men wished they could partake in and many women came to see as okay too; in stark contrast to the "good girls don't…" attitude that he fought for years. Even though his influence has diminished though, he still influences the conversation of sexual politics and social mores routinely and a great many women seem to think that posing for the magazine is not only acceptable, but desirable as the airbrushes, implants, and other tricks of the trade convert mode...Read the entire review

The Movie:

"Playboy's Queen of Clubs" focuses on a competition between dancers from various cities (Atlanta, Chicago and elsewhere) for the title of "Queen of Clubs". 11 judges from different fields - adult film, radio, hip-hop - judge the moves of each of the girls, who try to pull out all the stops in order to win the crown. They are judged after every round, rather like a "Stripper Idol."

The contenders from Atlanta are Suga and Starr (somehow I don't think those are their real names), a pair of busty African-American women who both put on an athletic show (and, amusingly, riff on sex throughout the whole time of getting prepared), but it's Suga who goes the extra mile by an impressive intro of pole dancing and by demonstrating her flexibility. The two go through various rounds, including a lap dancing demo.

The next group includes XTC, a fresh-faced and curvy Latina; Ja...Read the entire review

Background, part 1: Playboy Enterprises has long provided fantasies for eager young males by offering up their curvy cuties for consumption. Aside from the usual criticism of the gals being airbrushed and made to look far more desirable than they are in real life, the well known company has seen better years of late. Once a powerful publisher with a string of clubs, founder Hugh Hefner has admittedly led a charmed life yet fallen on hard times of late. The clubs failed, his short lived television show was cancelled, readership is down, and Hugh has handed over the reigns of the company to his daughter as he advances into his twilight years. Admittedly, the man still has plenty to offer but the world is not the same place when he offered up the first nudes of starlet Marilyn Monroe so many years ago. Even back in the 1970's, companies like P...Read the entire review

The "Main" Feature

Yep. Apparently Ms. Tiffany Fallon was the Playboy Playmate of the Year for 2005. I can only assume that the other 11 contestants were as lovely as they were naked, so what was it that made Tiffany a little extra special?

Could be those big blue eyes or the wonderfully curvaceous figure that Tiffany's got workin', but I've no idea how these gals get voted in as the year's best Playmate. Is it a call-in vote? Can I cast a ballot online? Because if all I have to do is look at 12 naked women to become a part of the voting process, please feel free to send me a membership card.

Clearly, Tiffany's a doll. And a sincere bit of thanks to whomever chose to celebrate a gal with an actual female figure -- and not just some blond stick with a pretty face. Only thing holding Tiffany back from pure perfection, in fact, are the very things she installed to earn the extra attent...Read the entire review

The Movie

The Movie

Do fries come with that shake?

At a quick glance, the 2005 Playboy Video Playmate Calendar looks like a dream come true. It follows the Playboy tradition by producing a handful of very beautiful girls, who are more than eager to show a little skin. Unfortunately, the excitement that this video produces doesn't last too long. The truth is, it's quite boring and offers very little in both entertainment and replay value.

Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.comwww.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/13820 Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:16:09 UTC Skip It The Program In the current socio-political climate, is it even safe to say that Playboy, as an entity, is a safe and generally tame endeavor? Especially in an American society so deathly afraid of anything remotely sexual that the sight of a single areola sends Red-State Soccer Moms and Nascar Dads into screaming fits of dizzying hysteria, the likes of which would make Jonathan Edwards (the fire-and-brimstone preacher, not that other nutsucker) seem cool and rational in comparison? What's that?... What are you supposed to tell your children? Maybe that it's a boob?! Heavens forbid. Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.comwww.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/13568 Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:21:35 UTC Recommended In 10 Words or Less Every teen boy's dreams come to video life The Show Despite what some people might think, there's a definite line between Playboy and pornography, and there are people who don't wish to cross that line, for some reason. Admittedly, the women of Playboy tend to be many times more beautiful than those found in adult films and magazines, but there's also a sanitized, airbrushed feel to them that can get, for lack of a better word, boring. As a result, Playboy's gained something of a reputation as being behind the times, and their sales have suffered from it. This DVD doesn't help change that view, with graphics and editing right out of a late '80s wedding video. Take a look at that title screen...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.comwww.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/12933 Tue, 26 Oct 2004 03:43:15 UTC Skip It In 10 Words or Less Softcore soap opera from the Playboy Channel The Show What if they were allowed to show nudity on "Melrose Place?" What if they could have fully nude sex on "Dynasty?" It would probably look something like "Eden," a 1992 attempt by the Playboy Channel to create what HBO managed to put together with their original creations like "The Sopranos" and "Dream On." Being free from the restraints of network television, these shows could marry the plots and concepts of over-the-air TV with the nudity and language that made cable so popular. Unlike HBO, Playboy had to overcome it's "pornographic" reputation to get viewers, a problem it couldn't solve. Developed by two of the minds behind prime-time so...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.comwww.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/12403 Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:52:15 UTC Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson This compendium of Playboy history has one good thing going for it; it charts the history of every one of its monthly playmate centerfold 'celebrity women' from 1953 to 2003. The disc liner notes state that this is the first time the centerfold-ography has been, uh, laid out in one place. A longish, graphics-heavy 'docu' on the history of the magazine and its playmate history serves as new content. The rest of the two-disc set repackages playmate 'profiles' for those who care. The history docu is pure fluff as only the Playboy organization puts it out. We're treated to a constant barrage of moving graphics that give the impression of a wealth of visuals. They're all eye candy for an interesting and factual but entirely self-serving biography of Hugh Hefner and his magazine. It's an interesting story if one hasn't heard it before; an ener...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.comwww.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/11638 Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:29:01 UTC Rent It THE MOVIE Sorority Strip Party serves its purpose as a softcore title. It's tame enough to play on Cinemax, yet arousing enough for viewers who are looking for something sexy, yet not hardcore. I suppose it helps that all the women featured in the title are actual porn stars. They know exactly how to pose for and tease the camera, and it's also good to know going in that if you want to see any one of these babes in something a little more explicit, you need only go to your nearest adult store or online e-tailer. The movie opens with Puerto-Rican actress Dee and dark-haired Kelli Tyler washing their yellow car and talking about how men turn them on. Dee starts talking about how she loves the feeling of having sex with her boyfriend, and soon the two ladies are soaping each other up and spraying each other off. Kelli remembers she needs to call her parents, so Dee i...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.comwww.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/11616 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:52:59 UTC Rent It The Program OK, I'm going to do this review of Playboy: Women of Wal-Mart by discussing two rather disparate points, and ultimately attempting to tie them together in some kind of thesis. Bear with me. The first one, of all things, is Taco Bell. The franchise. The fast-food franchise. The pseudo-Mexican-food-serving fast-food franchise. Now, think of what happens when you bring up the topic of Taco Bell every time you are with a reasonably sized cross-sample of friends, family, or co-workers. Everybody - and I mean everybody - immediately starts making gagging and retching noises. The filth! The degradation! Why that's not food, that's garbage. You might as well tak...Read the entire review ]]> DVD Video http://www.dvdtalk.comwww.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/11376 Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:49:13 UTC Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson This is an adequate but not outstanding docu on a tough subject, the enigmatic Rita Hayworth. Through home movies, stills, film clips and interviews with people who knew and worked with the star, we're told the story of Rita Cansino, the talented dancer who became her family's breadwinner at an early age on the stage, in clubs and in movies. She seems to have moved on through a succession of domineering, controlling men; her trademark independent Gilda character may have expressed her inner rebel, but for most of Hayworth's life she worked hard mostly to make studios and husbands rich. The docu quotes her famous line, "Men fell in love with Gilda but woke up with me." The curse of stardom wasn't as bad for her as others, but it's not a very pretty story. The testimony is the best part of the show. Her daughter Princess Yasmin Aga Khan ap...Read the entire review ]]>