Sam Fox – All Around The World
Picture: C
Sound: C+ Extras: C- Main Program: C+
Former British naughty girl Samantha Fox is back again,
still looking good and still sounding like Disco never ended on Sam Fox –
All Around The World (2002) where she shortens her name and tries to catch
the second wind experiences by Kylie Minogue.
However, Fox had been a tad more successful than her comeback
counterpart by being a few years ahead of her in hits crossing the
Atlantic. However, those hoping to hear
Touch Me (I Want Your Body), Naughty Girls (Need Love Too), I Wanna Have
Some Fun and I Only Want To be With You will get to Fun in
the middle of the program starting with Chapter 6.
As a matter of fact, this plays more like a reality TV
series, but with only a single show to offer that runs about 50 minutes
long. The popular former topless model
offers her insights and the missed opportunities that she feels may have
derailed her crossing over to feature films with any major note. The new songs, Santa Maria and Let
Me Be Free, are the focus of this show.
The problems is that they make her seem more like Olivia Newton-John
circa 1983 (Living In Desperate Times, Soul Kiss) meets The Spice
Girls, than anything really new and that was at the end of Miss Newton-John’s
run. Maybe if she got the right
producer, a comeback would be possible, but this is not going to do it, though
I give her credit for energy and plugging away. Ending the complaining and name-dropping would be a good start.
The 1.78 X 1/16 X 9 image is not anamorphically enhanced
and suffers, in part as it looks to have originated in the analog PAL
format. The result is a slight noise
that interferes with the presentation throughout. The full frame Music Video clips form the 1980s are bookended in
the 16 X 9 frame, which fans will either like or not. As old as they are, it rolls back the limits of the old PAL
footage, but has less lines of definition to show it. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo has no Pro Logic surrounds of any
kind, but is still a recent recording.
At least her music could have been presented that way, and that extends
to the two lone new video clips aforementioned, the only extras on this
DVD. Add the behind the scenes of the
making of her videos and at least fans will be happy. The rest might want to wait for that comeback, unless you would
get a kick out of this as a curio, which it is good at being.
- Nicholas Sheffo
