Blue Seduction (2009/Anchor Bay DVD)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: C+     Extras: C-     Telefilm: C

 

 

If you put Basic Instinct in a tale about a one-time popular Pop/Rock singer trying to make a comeback, than you might get something like Timothy Bond’s Blue Seduction (2009), but since these stories get silly you can only expect a mix of sex and laughs.  The differences in this case include two really good lead actors who are underrated and even have some chemistry here: Billy Zane and Estella Warren.

 

Zane should have been a big actor after The Phantom and Titanic, but that did not work out, yet here he is, still better than most of the younger, newer lead actors in Hollywood as the singer of a once-popular band still getting over drugs and drinking.  His wife (Jane Wheeler) helped him through all of it.  Now, a fan (Estella Warren, who did not get a second chance after the disastrous 2001 remake of Planet Of The Apes) comes on to Mikey (Zane) and wants to record a record with him.  In the meantime, she has sex with him and keeps having sex with him.

 

Absurd storylines ensure and the script by Jackelyn Giroux has fun with them, but there is nothing original here of course and there is a point where it just looses any credibility, but it is worth seeing for a few laughs and to see likable actors interact.  That is something we do not see enough of these days.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is a little soft, but has some good detail, color and even depth, while the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is dialogue-based despite the music and the mix is too much towards the front speakers.  The only extra is a trailer.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo