Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

mario10zeus This un-erotic documentary shows the life of Grace Quek, otherwise known as Annabel Chong, star of the World's biggest gang-bang. Quek seems to be a contradictory character. Even though she is doing graduate studies at USC and many of her teachers and friends refer to her high intelligence, she doesn't mind filming pornography and degrading herself. I'll give a semi-biographical synopsis of the movie's view of Quek from my personal perspective: Quek was born into a middle class family in Singapore. Her life seems OK. She decides to move to London to start college. One night she is brutally raped in an alleyway. Later she moves to LA, and while majoring in Gender Studies at USC, she decides to film porn as an experimentation against the anti-feminist views of society. The gang-bang is supposed to show her as a female stud who should be admired the same way as Hugh Hefner. I believe that first, Quek must have suffered from severe insecurity as a teenager due to her appearance(she does have rather bad teeth, and she feels that the porn community sees her as a beauty queen. Second, the rape she suffered extremely lower her self-esteem, to the point where she probably believes she has no worth. Hence, the porn makes her feel powerful. Still, she has extremely erratic behavior. When she is on Jerry Springer, she resembles a porn bimbo instead of a supposed graduate student. She attentively follows any order given by her porn producers, which are portrayed as they are, shameless pigs. Later she is discarded by them, and replaced with a better looking gang-bang girl.In one scene, when she starts yelling at someone on the streets and then runs, I get the sensation that she is extremely ashamed of herself and wishes to completely disappear from public view. But later, she is seen at an academic conference in London, again taking pride in her gang-bang. Either she's bi-polar or she suffers from multiple personality disorder. This documentary shows a lonely woman with extreme self-destructive behavior. She only has one friend, she doesn't seem to have a real emotional relationship, the porn community totally rejects her. As a viewer I ended up feeling sorry for this "porn star".

lastliberal In the same year that Steve Zahn was winning a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for Happy, Texas, this movie was competing for the Grand Jury Prize. I have to admit that I was not expecting a film that discusses triple penetration to be one on my list, but it came highly recommended by someone I trust.This film will give you some very interesting things to see, and I don't mean naked women, even though there is plenty of that. I was intrigued that the mother of this middle-class Chinese girl from Singapore was interviewed. Anyone that knows anything about society in Singapore knows this is 180 degrees from reality. In fact Annabel says: To Singapore, pornography is filth. That's okay. But it's become a national ideology that, just, you know, a value judgment, you know, to do pornography is to be against the collective agreement of what it means to be a Singaporean. F*ck 'em. They can lick my a**.I had to laugh when one porn star (MIchael Coxx) stated that her signature act gave porno a bad name, and a porn star (Ona Zee) trying to pretend that she did "high class" porn.It was a great inside look at the business that killed Beta and will kill Blu Ray.I love fried zucchini, but I will never look at a zucchini the same way again.

Hashimuri Aside from the fact that this documentary displays little technical skill, it also seems to possess no real artistic or narrative INTENT. This is supposed to be Grace Quek's chance to tell the REAL story of her alter-ego, porn starlet Annabel Chong. Naturally you expect some in-depth analysis of Quek's unconventional trajectory, with adequate psychological insight and complex discussion. However, you get none.This is an exploitative and disjointed sleazefest - but Quek herself is largely part of the problem. Instead of making sense of her dubious and scandalous career choices, she flounders, displaying faux-confidence and nonchalance at times, emotional instability and fragility at others. Quek is one of those privileged and intelligent people who orchestrate their lives in order to precisely undermine their privilege and intelligence. It is this unrepressed, egocentric, ungrateful display of self-indulgence that makes such people unable to garner sympathy or respect from anybody. Such happens here, and it is rather pointless to have the subject of a documentary be so contemptible.Quek grew up as the only child of well-meaning, middle-class parents in one of the world's wealthiest nations, where she attended some of the top schools before being granted the means to attend university in the UK. Yet amidst this oasis of privilege and opportunity, she was oh so overwhelmed by her existential lack of purpose and identity that she headed for L.A., where she nosedived into the underworld of drugs and pornography.Meanwhile, she rationalizes her choices by claiming there is some sort of higher philosophical quest embedded in what is otherwise blatantly self-destructive behavior. Although it is clear Quek has unresolved issues, and most probably longstanding clinical depression, there is a catch: she is, and always has been, in a position to DEAL and SEEK HELP. That she CHOOSES to destruct beyond repair and delude herself about her motives is the real travesty here, and not all the nonsense some people keep pointing out about the porn industry being sleazy and exploitative and devoid of morals.Most women who get into porn come from working-class, if not downright desolate backgrounds. Their childhoods and adolescenes are best quantified by LACK rather than excess. Many have a history of child abuse, sexual abuse, violence, and early drug and alcohol addiction. That Quek would choose such an exploitative industry as the medium to carry out some of sort of "intellectual exercise" to, in her words, "subvert Western ideals of masculinity" only exposes the fact that her choice had NO SUCH INTENT. Partaking in the infamous "gangbang" was merely indulgence in a high form of self-destruction - hey, with an audience to boot (Quek seems is undeniably a narcissistic sort of masochist). The fact that she doesn't care about never having been paid a cent also compounds this. Name a single porn actress who would work for free! The sad this is, her intent in making this documentary is one and the same as her intent in doing porn: more self-indulgence, more self-absorption and more self-destruction. I am only sorry that she consented to getting her parents involved in it - watching the scenes of her mom is heart-breaking. Many kids fail their parents, but for a kid to be so ungrateful as to FLAUNT their failure, is just unnecessary.

bob the moo The porn star Annabel Chong prepares for her part in the world record gang bang. This documentary examines her roots in the business and follows her before and after the shoot to find out why she's doing porno and what her background is. We see her as a real complex person who is seemingly unsure of what her motivations are for doing the work she does.The `porn documentary' is an area that is becoming more popular as porn becomes more mainstream. I have seen several – some that aim to just have a laugh (The Legend of Ron Jeremy) and some that are brutally honest (Hardcore). This was one of the first I'd seen and I wasn't sure what the agenda was behind it. For the most part I don't think the makers had any aim but to be honest but fair. This takes us to Chong herself as this is a look at her rather than a look at the business she's in.Chong changes her story during the film. For some of it she is a porn star who is doing it because it's `the ultimate ego trip' to have all these men wanting to have sex with her. Then we find out more about her teenage gang rape and the whole porn stuff looks different. Later however she lost my vote when she appeared at a Cambridge Uni debate and on channel 4's The Girly Show (that height of political debate) talking about how it was `a p*ss take on the whole western ideal of masculinity' and similar pretentious sounding remarks. That's fine if what you're doing is art, but porn is not art. If you are in any doubt her Cambridge debate is preceded by her boasting about loving anal sex and her pride at doing triple penetration – how very Van Gogh!She comes off very mixed up. At times very reasonable and normal, others very OTT and really into getting f*cked by as many guys as she can then at others we see her tearful confession to her mother and see her slicing up her arm with a knife just so that she can `really feel something'. It's hard to know how to feel about her because she doesn't seem to know who she is and why she's doing the things she does. For the most part the film just about manages to remain tasteful. It doesn't focus on the sex scenes and tries to have plenty of character study rather than whacking material. However it does use a lot of clips and stuff that don't add to the message but really only serve to spice things up. Some of the scenes have a reason – for example the gang bang scenes are in no way erotic and are slightly like watch meat being processed, and Chong has a weird smile the whole time. But some from the start of her career are just there to show off breasts and ass! The only good bit about following her early work is the interviews with directors like John T Bone, Ed Powers, Dick Nasty (here as `Richard'), Ron Jeremy and Robert Black. They don't give much insight into the business but it is clear they don't give much weight to Chong's idea that this is a social comment. In fact they are the first to point out how she was exploited – with many of the performers not having had AIDS tests, and also Chong not getting rich from her day's work.This is a little hard to take. I watched Hardcore where we see Dick Nasty as an agent for an English girl – pressuring her into things she didn't want to do. So to hear him take the high ground is a little daft. Robert Black is a regular for documentaries and he always make sense because he is honest about porn – `it's f*cking shameful and nasty' he says in `Hardcore' but he does enjoy his work!Overall this isn't a look at porn but a look at Chong and on that level it isn't great. How can we get who she is when she isn't clear on that herself? It's interesting viewing and slightly depressing to see a woman who is so clearly exploited claiming the artistic high ground, and also seeing someone who is so intelligent (she passes her degree) constantly going back to work in porn. A bit of a muddle but a compelling world to dip into for 90 minutes.......but not any longer than that, thank God.