Janine Loves Jenna (2007 Video) User Reviews (3)

Not so bad.

[jetcar · 8/10 · 4 July 2007]

Okay, clearly other viewers had great expectations of this. Jenna's then-husband probably had a lot to do with the expectations... way overblown based on his ego.

Dude, it's porn, not art. Alright, 'nuff said about that douche.

Michael Ninn did most of this with his artsy porn (read: special effects/green screens and story lines) in the 90's. Private makes better artsy product, too.

The odd part of the film is the scene in which Jenna is supposed to be suffering through the trials of Hell, yet, in the opener, she is the one dominating Janine.

Also, Katja Kassin should have been allowed to "mingle" some more with Janine and Jenna in the café, before moving on with her guy/girl scene.

The scene in the rain is a good one, with Janine being the more watchable of the two. The camera seemed to reflect that as well, giving her more face time than Jenna.

Jenna gets it back in the devil's chamber, and then makes an awkward attempt to escape that crashes the whole movie back down to it's most amateur level of "non-acting"... I actually laughed out loud, because I thought they were trying to be funny, not sincere.

The lesbian scene is hot (Jenna and Janine) but a little lacking, and I'm not a fan of lit candle insertions. There are far more erotic practices that can be used in porn scenes such as this.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie, if not just to see Jenna before she totally pigged out with the plastic surgery, and of course, to see Janine working with men.

Worth renting, maybe owning in a few months when the price comes down.

... what the hell? (Quite literally ...)

[cricharddavies · 4/10 · 29 May 2007]

According to the IMDb, "Lucky You", starring Drew Barrymore, was filmed in mid 2005, and only released last month. Apparently, the studios didn't have a lot of faith in it, and so they sat on it for nearly two years. "Janine Loves Jenna", according to the statement of production date required by law, was filmed in August of 2004. So it's been sitting on the shelf for close to two and a half years. I think we should all know what conclusions to draw from that, don't you?

The story gets off to a really lousy start with an incredibly poorly animated prelude -- which looks like it was drawn by someone who thinks Rob Liefeld is a god among artists -- which then segues into a nearly interminable music-video-esquire prologue that sets up the rest of the story. In the former, we see Jenna and Janine -- or at least we should assume that they're Jenna and Janine though the figures look nothing like them -- get into a horrible car accident that leaves Janine dead. In the latter, Jenna apparently comes home to her boyfriend (played by then-husband Justin Sterling, who also directed and played the Devil) who has no sympathy. Despondent over this, Jenna draws herself a bath and slits her wrists, and -- good Catholic that she is -- goes straight to hell. Which is also where Janine is, conveniently. And the next two hours is devoted to their efforts to get out of hell, efforts that will (and here's the spoiler) ultimately come to naught! They don't get out of hell! So what was the point?

What kills me about this overblown video is how sincere everyone comes across about how they're making great art, doing something that the adult industry has never done before. Say what? I've seen this exact sort of thing in -- well, not dozens, but a quite a few -- European fetish videos. (I'm specifically thinking of 2002's "Faust".) It was annoying in them, and it's annoying here too. And the set-up is stolen from "The Devil and Miss Jones" mixed with the Britney Spears video where she drowns in the bathtub after getting hit in the head! (Heck, the music that plays over that scene even sounds a bit like that song.)

Admittedly, the ultimate scene between Jenna and Janine is probably the best lesbian scene that the latter has done in quite a while, significantly better than her scene in "The Villa". But every other scene that she or Jenna in is poorly lit, saddled with an annoying musical soundtrack, and/or laden with distracting elements like the red-garbed "monks" who circle around them in their first scene waving censers.

The unfortunate truth about trying to make great art is that the harder you try, the worse that it seems when you fail. I'm probably being a bit too hard on this video than I should be, as I've been waiting quite a while to get my hot little hands on it, and it hasn't lived up to my own heightened expectations. But I think that even if I hadn't heard anything about it before now, I'd be nearly as disappointed in it as I am.

# 56 : great team-up but too tortured

[lamegabyte · 1/10 · 19 July 2014]

Now, it's the turn of the Gramma of all porn-stars : Janine ! Since i'm watching porn in my silver age, the one of night trips that started with Dyanna Lauren (# to come), Janine has been there as she was at the start of this decade and we can guess she would be still there today if her personal life would have been more calm. If I'm not really into her, i admit she has some style and i'm not talking about her tattoos ! In a way, she reminds a bit about Madonna (# to come) but she's even wilder (yes, it can happen…).

Unfortunately, she is not really the focus of this movie as she is only there to put the spotlight on Jenna (again, a # to come) and in addition, the movie is just not arousing : as sex and sensuality can be so powerful and luminous, I never understand why people uses their energy to get them down, to choke them into the dark side : so, here, there's blood, death, blasphemes, monstrosities, vices and it's filthy, evil. In addition, Jenna's ex who directed the movie is clearly overwhelmed : as he tries to put a thousand things in the frame (special effects, weird angle, dynamic editing, stunning wardrobe), he forgets that he's doing a porn movie ! The only interest of this movie is that it had been prophetic as indeed Sterling gives Jenna a real trial when they split !