Review of Just Visiting

Just Visiting (2013 Video)
Sci-fi trifle has a certain bit of charm
4 November 2020
Thankfully devoid of Brad Armstrong's usual pretentiousness in making science fiction extravaganzas, this cute comedy vehicle for Wicked's Samantha Saint delivers an innocence and naivete that is refreshing. It doesn't amount to much, but passes the time pleasantly.

Perhaps an answer film to that Gore Vidal/Jerry Lewis comedy "Visit to a Small Planet" (which I saw at my local cinema in my youth), mild tale has Saint playing Luna from the planet Thoronia, crash landing in the California desert. She learns about earthlings by watching folks having sex, starting with Alec Knight and busty waitress Nikki Delano.

Her picaresque, lightly comical adventures continue with Richie Calhoun treating her to food at Nikki's diner, and then learning hitchhiking with him, as well as servicing Richie sexually in his pitched tent at night. Several cameos ensue, starting with David Lord giving her ride to L.A., and Barrett Blade well-cast as a pornographer "discovering" the blonde alien beauty and immediately putting her into a 3-way scene with Danny Mountain and Aleksa Nicole.

Crew member Jack Vegas hits her with his car when Saint darts out into traffic, and she's taken to hospital where that great of old Shanna McCullough is the nurse and Marcus London her doctor.

Saint's amazing recuperative powers alert London to her alien status, and she later rewards his help with her newfound sexual powers. Fanciful ending has her visiting director Brad's video store and finding him as fellow refugee from her planet, providing her with a handy ride home.

Overall, "Just Visiting" provides a response to all those movies (since the 1930s) depicting an innocent girl going to Hollywood and encountering only abuse and misery - a comical flipside to that exploitation movie cliche.
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