Review:
‘This Ain’t Star Trek XXX’ DVD Disc 2
NON-SEX FEATURE
Dolby Digital 2.0, (Widescreen), Length 22 minutes
The sets and wardrobe colors are saturated and pop like 1960's TOS remastered.
The video quality is really top notch and I didn't notice any video or compression artifacts. There are some nice closeups in the 16x9 widescreen framing of Kirk and others.
I did not notice ANY soft filtration on any of the actresses closeups but they should have used some as a nod to TOS closeups. The transporter CGI effects are adequate.
*Some spoilers of the plot*
Khan looks a little sweaty sometimes but that's just the makeup and he is a little. There are some nods to TOS colored lighting on Enterprise. The video intercom reminded me of the one in 'Austin Powers' car with Basil Exposition. TOS only had an intercom system on the Enterprise and not a video intercom but oh well they took creative license...
The music sounded like a sequenced sampled orchestra as it is all orchestral-style music.
Nice low level ambience of ships interiors. The sound effects for computers, communicators, tricorders are not 'vintage TOS' but stand-ins that do the job. It would have been nice if they used the same sound effects although with Paramount's lawyers they probably would have to license them for this parody.
They ADR’d (looped)
ALL of Uhura’s dialogue and the sync is off quite a bit.
Some of Spock is looped. The actor playing Spock is British and sometimes you hear his accent and sometimes you don't.
Kirk’s monologue has no reverb at all and that should have some reverb on their next parody Star Trek film.
Khan introduces himself as ‘Khan Noonien Singh’ of the S.S. Botany Bay. Which was established in
TOS episode 'Space Seed'.
Kirk introduces himself as ‘James Tiberius Kirk’.
Khan’s wardrobe, a yellow shiny raincoat-type jacket with stars is ridiculous. Those stars just scream out 20th century Porno or daredevil. The video shot on HD shows a lot of detail in the textured fabric. His overacting is kind of funny.
And Sasha Grey's acting is amateurish.
The plot device for Khan to take over is called PSI 2000 virus.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Psi_2000
taken from
TOS episode ‘The Naked Time’.
The actor playing Spock sometimes has a British accent and sometimes does not.
Kirk yells “Khan!” with echoes & reverb similar to TWOK.
There are a couple shots where Evan Stone is totally parodying Shatner's acting with long pauses between words.
Basically the opening and closing scenes are looped ADR dialogue partly due to the wide crane shots over the bridge (done with a jib as seen in the behind-the-scenes).
SLIDESHOW:
6 seconds each of still images taken by photographer. Orchestral music plays underneath for about 8 ½ minutes and then the music starts over. The whole thing lasts about 20-25 minutes. “pretty-girl” style shots in wardrobe then Hustler style porno with penetration, then cast group shots on bridge in wardrobe, then behind-the-scenes on-set shots. The images from the first post of this thread are in there too.
The music is like an ISO music track of some of the score.
Storyboards
Length 1:36, (Widescreen)
Director talks over the storyboards that dissolve to the shot
BLOOPER:
(widescreen) blooper reel. A few minutes or so.
MAKING OF: about 45 minutes (Widescreen)
*Some spoilers of the plot*
A few shots full frontal nudity.
Casual interviews all of the actors separately and lots of joking around on the set and behind-the-scenes in and out of wardrobe. A very humbling shots of an actor on his knees putting in his special effects contact lens in the bathroom with assistance.
Most of the sound is from the camera microphone but within a couple feet it sounds adequate inside the studio. I wish all of the behind-the-scenes footage was NOT handheld but smoothed out with a monopod or a tripod. Since I'm only reviewing the DVD I cannot tell if the 'Making of' was shot in High Definition.
I mentioned in my initial review how the studio facility looks professional and it does. If there were no nudity on this disc and the title was different you would not know it was a company that makes porno films. The size of the crew is smaller than even a non-union independent scripted film though.
Watching this 'making of' video kind of ruins the fantasy of the recreation of the Enterprise bridge, transporter room, sickbay sets though since you really do see a lot including the director blocking out a scene. If you purchase this film you may want to save this part until you watch the NON-SEX Feature a few times.
This thread deals with this parody video a serious way for Trekkers.
I am NOT reviewing the hardcore video this DVD's Disc 1.
If someone purchases the Blu-ray version please write your own review of the video quality and let us know if the making-of is in HD.