How to Make Love to a Woman (Blu-ray Review)

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Or, an Idiot’s Guide to Lovemaking

With a tagline that oh-so-cleverly reads, “Don’t beat around the bush,” two things are immediately
apparent about the straight-to-video flop How to Make Love to a Woman: 1.) It’s going to be
one of those crass sex comedies where men are portrayed as total ignoramuses when it comes to the
topography and workings of women’s nether-regions, and 2.) it’ll inevitably try to make a tender,
heartfelt point about the importance of communication in sexual relationships. The latter makes
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Video

E1 Entertainment brings How to Make Love to a Woman to Blu-ray with a 1080p/AVC-
encoded transfer that does what it can with the film’s low-budget look. Like most comedies, the
lighting here is overly bright, giving the cinematography a flat, lifeless quality. This results in colors
that, if realistic, seem a bit limp. There are moments when the film has more pop and depth—like the
club scenes or the reunion in the rain—but in general the overall appearance is somewhat dull, with
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Audio

The same could be said for the film’s DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track, which serves its
dialogue-driven purpose but rarely offers any notable embellishments. The rear channels are only
sparsely used for anything besides music, and when they do pipe up with environmental atmospherics
—like club chatter or wind and sand during Andy’s walk on the beach with Layne—the effect is
somewhat jarring because you’ve been conditioned not to hear any ambience from the back of the
soundfield. ...

Supplements

Interviews (SD, 15:14)
Includes brief interviews with Forest Kline, Jenna Jameson, Josh Meyers, Mayday Parade, Ronnie
Winter, and others.

Making of Featurette (SD, 14:59)
A typical "making of" documentary, mostly comprised of on-set footage and interviews where the
participants talk nice about one another.

Outtakes (SD, 25:22)
Twenty-five minutes of deleted scenes—not at twenty-five minute gag reel.

Music Video (S...