User Reviews

Review this title
2 Reviews
Sort by:
Filter by Rating:
9/10
A classic porn series from the golden era of porn
jmrecillas-8343512 February 2021
The Catalina Five-0 series is a silly porn story based and copied up on the original 1968-1980 Hawaii Five-0 detective series, with some shoots made only to locate de starlets on the island, and some short shoots on some Hawaiian beach, since all the actions happen on some studio pretending to be the headquarters of the PI, embodied by the gorgeous Raven (Vicky Vickers) and Zara Whites, who barely follow criminal cases wich lead to nothing really important, and all is a pretext to have some g/g or b/g intercourse scenes one after another.

The plot is almost inexistent, but the sex scenes are amongst the best sex scenes of that era. One curious thing is that Raven was the star on the Taboo American Style series from 1985, wich was an impressive success, and she star this new series, surrounded by very beautiful starlets such the always neglected Mexican Viviana, who made very few films but let an unforgateble warm image ofher porn persona.

So, the detectives of this series, wich appears with no name at all, Raven and Zara Whites, are lead to a series of meetings and allegedly research in order to "solve" crimes, misteries and so on. But once the sex action begin, nobody cares about the crime or mistery, just to have sex with the next girl or boy on the list.

And so there is barely plot on every film, also barely are related between them, just for Raven and Zara Whites' constant presence on all the five installment of the series. This is not, by any means necesary, a series that deserves a Bafta or a similar award. But is a good golden rate of the golden era of porn, before even porn become an industrialized product without identity.
1 out of 1 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Standard porn w/chance to see Viviana
lor_19 October 2010
Viviana was my favorite porn star of the '90s and I watched many of her videos in VHS 20 years ago. Very few have been revived on DVD, making Catalina Five-O: Tiger Shark worth watching.

A top director Anthony Spinelli was largely marking time with this one, an assembly line effort with minimal plot. Raven is spotlighted in a couple of scenes but the expected murder mystery or even noir plotting never amounts to anything. Another drawback is that there is attractive underwater photography footage, but it is mere filler, apparently shot to pad out each feature in the Five-O series.

Sandra Scream is always worth a peek, featured in lesbian action in this one, while Zara Whites' talents are not tested. Videography, credited to Jack Remy, is fine, though my bias is for film, where Spinelli made his name.
1 out of 1 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink

See also

Awards | FAQ | User Ratings | External Reviews | Metacritic Reviews


Recently Viewed