DVD
Review | Just Can't Get Enough Written by:Kage
Alan
No, this isn’t the life story of Kip Winger (you
know, the singer from the 80s/90s who had a hit song with a similar
title?). It is, however, the story of how the very famous
Chippendale’s came to be. This holds a very special place in my heart
too because I danced with them for a while and made more money than I
can recall…mostly because I did it in a dream. I mean, isn’t it every
male’s dream to do that? Well, it was writer/director David Payne’s
dream to bring the story to the big screen and he got to do it, so the
least I should be able to do is brag about it. It didn’t happen,
though.
Based on true events, the film opens with innocent
looking and sounding Nick DeNoia (Peter Nevargic, “Lady Beware”) getting
shot in his office. After that little intro, we’re taken back in time
to the early 1980’s when The Chippendales was just a little club on the
verge of bursting at the seams because of the male dancers attracting so
many women. Owner Steve Banerjee (Shelley Malil, “Collateral Damage”)
is all about the money and running his club to gain maximum profits.
Well, his luck is about to really take off with the arrival of Chad
Patterson (Jonathan Aube, “Ocean Park”), who recently graduated with a
Masters Degree in Business and relocated to the area.
Chad is looking to get a job and put his skills to
use and a job at Chippendales holds the promise of one day being able to
manage it. Well, it’s not quite what happens. The more the club grows,
the more complications enter the picture. Chad is just a face that
brings women in to spend their money and Steve has no intention of
promoting him for his brains. Enter choreographer Nick DeNoia who
blackmails the rights to a touring show from money hungry Steve. Steve
gets pissed and has Nick killed. When Chad breaks away with a few of
the other dancers, it doesn’t look good for them either as Steve plans
to eliminate all the competition because “It’s just business.”
“Just Can’t Get Enough” is actually quite humorous
and does for the Chippendales what “Zoolander” did for supermodels.
There’s a bit of intrigue since murder is involved, but the actors have
dialogue as well as direction that borders on camp and makes them come
off as somewhat stereotypically shallow. Again, it’s almost campy, so
it works in that light. I about fell out of my seat when one of the
characters kills an older women just by making her feel young again.
Ahem…you get the idea. She died with a smile. There’s just enough
tension in the film to keep you interested and enough buff men in
revealing outfits to keep your eyes glued to the screen.
Wolfe Video provided me with a screener featuring a
full screen transfer. I don’t know if the actual release is also full
screen or if it will be Widescreen. Video quality on this disc,
however, is actually quite good and looks professional. Audio quality
isn’t bad either and I was blown away by the sheer number of 80’s songs
featured in the soundtrack. Any film that blasts Toto Coelo, Samantha
Fox and Animotion is going to be one I watch! As for extras, there
weren’t any included, but the supplementary material may also have
changed for the official release.
“Just Can’t Get Enough” reminds me of a made-for-TV
movie that was just a little too risqué for that medium, so they brought
it out on DVD instead. The director has a background in b-films and
this seriously edges over in that direction more than once, yet I
couldn’t help but keep watching. Would it get better? Would it get
worse? Would it actually end? Well, it did get better and worse and
then better again before it ended. It’s eye-candy with a little bit of
nastiness, so it didn’t make for bad watching on a Wednesday night.
