Dom Robinson reviews

Cert:

Cat.no: MDV 557

Running time: 58 minutes

Year: 2001

Pressing: 2001

Region(s): 2 (UK PAL)

Chapters: 12 plus extras

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dolby Surround)

Languages: English

Subtitles: None

Fullscreen: 4:3

16:9-enhanced: No

Macrovision: No

Disc Format: DVD 5

Price: £15.99

Extras: Presenter profile, Photo Gallery, Trailers

Detention beckons for latecommers.

Class Action is an Adult Channel programme that's not really hosted by Tamera, the leggy, thin blonde in the show, although she's the one in every programme and features in the "Presenter Profile" which I'll mention later.

This DVD contains the first three episodes and features Tamera as Cynthia Masters, a new rich bitch at the posh Cunnington School, but before she can enrol she has an encounter in "Screw Driver" with her chauffeur (any Duran Duran fans? :) and a local commoner hitchhiker they pick up along the way...

The second episode, "Smoking Pussy", finds Cynthia geting into trouble behind the bike sheds when she turns down a cigarette from head prefects Leanora and Arabella. The word "fag" starts to mean something different when the three of them have a "hay" old time in the barn.

Finally, "Bed Head", sees Cynthia and a fellow blonde student being taught a lesson about discipline - and when the Head wants head...

As with any of these type of DVDs, the censors are happy to snip, snip, snip. According to the BBFC website all three episodes are available on an uncut R18 video, but here episode one is cut by 3 mins 32 seconds ("cuts for explicit sexual detail"), episode two loses 5 mins 40 seconds ("cuts to images of oral-genital contact and penetration") and episode three misses out on 4 mins 17 seconds ("cuts to sight of unsimulated oral sex and penetration by dildo").

There's always time for the practicals...

The picture is fullscreen and clear as a bell. No complaints and zero artifacts. The average bitrate is a steady 7.51Mb/s.

The sound is Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dolby Surround) and is clear enough, but isn't used to any great degree.

The extras include a couple of pages of info about Tamera in Presenter Profile, 15 pictures in the Photo Gallery and trailers for this show and four other Adult Channel DVDs.

There are 12 chapters on the disc, although where it counts such sections only get a chapter of their own. The menus are static and silent and there are no subtitles.

If the head prefect says "Suck my tits"....

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.