In Search of the Wild Kingdom

In Search of the Wild Kingdom is the latest, and best to date, film from Shine Louise Houston, whose earlier releases The Crash Pad and Superfreak garnered her accolades from feminist porn fans and queers of various persuasions. Like her previous movies, In Search of the Wild Kingdom is a plethera of lesbian sex, with a lot of hot Butches and Femmes. This is the pure product. There are no gay-for-pay bottle blondes engaged in perfunctory open-mouthed tongue kissing here -- except in a brief, hilarious scene that parodies such moments in mainstream porn movies.
The plot is clever and used to very funny effect. A documentary film crew follows around another documentary film crew as they attempt to film the mating habits of San Francisco lesbians. So In Search of the Wild Kingdom is a (fake) documentary about a (fake) documentary about (real) lesbians. (Follow all that?) Imagine one of those National Geographic programs, with cameras watching lions from the distance, only instead of lions, they're watching lesbians. The fundamental joke is that the people having sex don't notice the camera crew in their apartment or in the bar, and there's a really funny bit of business with a "decoy lesbian," a mannequin dressed up and sent out to attract the natives. All that's cute and innovative, but what about the sex? This is a film made by and for lesbians. The sex scenes are often really intense, especially a long three-way with two women wearing harnesses and dildos. The most important thing: this is the real thing, messy, gasping, sweaty, improvisational, impetuous, spirited, and beautiful. It's a very funny mockumentary, but there's nothing mock about the sex. Don't miss it.

Cast: Beau Flex, Trouble Royale, Rozen DeBowe, Dylan Ryon, Wil Thrustwell, Papi Coxxx.

65 Minutes