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4 student friends - Jason, Band-Aid, Fatty and Leung - depserately want
to get laid, and after doing a bit of thinking on the subject, they come
up with a truly silly plan to get their share of fanny: why not pretend to
produce a porn film, invite Japanese porn star Manami Amamiya (playing
basically herself) over to Hong Kong and this way all getting to shag her
...
What seems easy (?) is tougher than thought, they need the money for
her wages (they actually have to get a loan from the bank under false
pretense), they need to convince Manami's manager that they are really a
production company (they break into an office and rearrange it one night),
they need a film director and film crew to convince Manami she's in a film
(they actually let other students pay to see the sex-action), and they
need to get it up on time (Viagra). That their director thinks he's making
serious art (pornographic art is still art, in this film as well as in
real life) and that they repeatedly get kicked out of the sets they are
shooting at further complicates matters.
And then Jason falls in love with Manami - and she with him -, and he
doesn't want her to shoot porn anymore (but she keeps going on anyway).
And the guys meet Manami's manager whom they thought to be her boyfriend
dating another woman, and learn that he has looked through their scheme
long ago but went along with it as long as the money is right - and all of
a sudden they think he is making her a prostitute and beat him up (a bit
of a double standard actually, whoever pays a woman for sex is making her
a prostitute, not her pimp ... but the pimp sure helps).
Finally, they get their film done and have all had sex with Minami ...
and Jason thinks he's something special to her - until he notices she has
given all of his friends the exact same good-luck charm she has given him
as a symbol of their love ...
If you haven't guessed it, A.V. is a light-weight sex comedy
with the sex part very restrained (it all boils down to a few isolated
topless scenes) and the comedy very good-natured for this kind of film
(this is not a gross-out film). And even though the premise for the
whole movie is very silly (and not the good kind of silly), the film
somehow manages to work, maybe because it doesn't permanently go over the
top (not necessarily a bad thing as such), doesn't every now and again
resort to bad slapstick (necessarily a bad thing), or insults its
audience's intelligence with way too many fart jokes (not one in this
film), but keeps the story flowing at a gentle pace.
This all doesn't make A.V. a masterpiece of any sort, but it's a
nice way to kill ca 100 minutes. And if you're in a relationship, this is
a film you can even watch with your significant other ...
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