Jenna Loves Diamonds
It’s tempting to say that Jenna Jameson’s back and better than ever, except that’s not quite the case; Jenna Loves Diamonds was reportedly filmed in 2002 and has been assiduously sat on until now. On the one hand, it’s a new Jenna movie, and as such contains the Jenna we once knew and loved, rather than the current one, who is bitter and alienated from both fans and the industry; on the other, it reminds us of what was — it’s a little bittersweet to watch this movie and now that not much else like it is coming down the pipeline.
Jenna herself is pretty much on fire in this film; she has a good scene with Kendall Karlsen, then a great one with Dru Berrymore — some fantastic strap on action there — and then a final scene with Justin Sterling. It’s hard to watch her objectively with Justin — the last five years or so of history keep intruding — but if you can get past that, you’ll love their scene, since it is pretty much of a piece with the others they’ve done together. I keep going back to the Scene 5 girl on girl action, though — Dru knows how to work a strap on. Cherry Rain, as a mousy secretary with more going on than you see on the surface, is also a winner here; I don’t really like Dillion Day, her costar in Scene 2, but it’s impossible not to enjoy Cherry’s performance — she seems to genuinely like what she’s doing, and she has chemistry with Day, even if I don’t. Aurora Snow and Randy Spears are great together in a throwaway scene as two club employees enjoying each other on company time — both of them are topnotch performers, and seeing them together is great. Ashley Moore and Dale DaBone also turn in a good scene as a pair of rich horndogs who get robbed while they’re busy paying attention to something besides their diamonds.
I’m not going to spoil anything in the movie for you by going over the plot in minute detail; I will only say this: Jenna Jameson plays an insurance investigator, there’s a hypnotist, there are diamonds, and there’s a twist. If you put those elements in a box and shake them a little, you can open it up and see the ending. The fun is in the ride, and with an almost-at-the-top-of-her-game Jenna, Aurora Snow, Cherry Rain, and Dru Berrymore in the mix, there’s plenty of room for fun. The plot is a little more serious than is best for Jenna — she shines at comedy — but she still has a couple of good comic moments. Aesthetically, it’s a pretty MTV-generation movie, with lots of effects and rapid editing to keep the mind occupied; occasionally, the artistic effort gets in the way, but each scene always settles down after its opening jitters.
