Corporate Fantasy (1999)

Brilliant and touching

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* I bought this DVD. I bought it because I wanted to check out the continuing adventures of Catalina Larranaga, who I first saw in "The Exhibitionist Files". Unfortunately, she did not have the same great hairstyle from that movie. In "Corporate Fantasy", she has short black hair and it just doesn't compare to her long, flowing black hair look from "The Exhibitionist Files". It just wasn't working for her so "Corporate Fantasy" really didn't work for me.At any rate, "Corporate Fantasy" is about sex games being played at an advertising firm. It's always an advertising firm. Why can't sexual shenanigans go on at a bottling plant or an accounting firm? You know, they get horny too. Anyway, "Corporate Fantasy" has the typical set-up where the shy girl comes into the oversexed workplace and is immediately pounced on by the horny guys. If you guessed that she is going to blossom into a sexually confident super babe, you are very smart and have probably seen a couple of skin flicks before. There are a few decent sex scenes in this one but nothing too exciting. Catalina has one scene with the shy girl in the hot tub that I thought was going to rock the house but it only mildly shook it. "Corporate Fantasy" didn't do it for me but I will continue looking for Catalina movies where her long, black hair flows in the wind and across her body.

Nobody I know, with the exception of Fox Mulder, likes the stardard hardcore format. So why aren't these Eros things flying off the shelves? Here you get good production values, a semblence of a plot, and guys who don't look like they're being paid in drugs. Most of all are the gorgeous women. You get the ex-Miss U.S.A. and Courtney Cox look-alike Kelli McCarty in some films. In this film you get even better: Tracy Ryan/Smith/Angeles, who ought to be HUGE. Here this statuesque blonde with hair, eyes and skin of a twenty year old plays a naive receptionist. I won't spoil it for you, except that one scene where she lays on a bed after <<almost>> making love will definitely make you melt. And oh yes - these are films you can watch with your girlfriend without embarrasment.

Daisy Dawson (Tracy Smith) is an all-business "girl-Friday" for Mr. Blake Tyler (John Gallucci) the boss at an advertising firm where her roommates, Gloria (Catalina Larranaga) and Tammy (Susan Featherly) are also employed. Junior executive types at the same firm are Orlando and Kevin (played by Jarod Carey and Karl Preston, respectively) . Gloria and Tammy are trying to get Daisy to get back into the dating game. Mr. Tyler and the junior exec's would each be more than happy to oblige, especially since they have formed an office pool as a reward for the first of them to get Daisy into bed.Other reviewers who may have been looking for a classic, of either the "Gone With the Wind" or the "Debbie Does Dallas" variety, registered some disappointment. However, I thought it was well worth the rental.A scene in which Daisy gets caught in the work room while Gloria and Kevin are having very casual sex on the copy machine, unaware of Daisy's presence was interesting. Ms. Smith does an outstanding job of showing mixed emotions of embarrassment, curiosity, and maybe even a little envy, as she views the complete proceedings without getting noticed by either of the participants.

boring, same old formula, lacks imagination and creativity, and above all, poor love-scene acting.