Virtual Girl (1998 Video) User Reviews

Real girl

[kosmasp · 4/10 · 22 July 2022]

Almost like a horny female version of Pinocchio, the main (virtual) character of this movie, also wants to be a real girl. I am not familiar with all Pinocchio material, so there may be some fan fiction or something that goes in a similar direction. But let's move away from that and concentrate on the movie at hand.

The movie and the characters are self aware. The main character especially has to be convinced to get it on with the titular Virtual Girl (no pun intended). Of course it is all only on the surface. Do not expect there to be too many obstacles. There is a fair amount of nudity, though I doubt you will get what you look for - if that is what you are looking for. You decide - if you are a bit of a prude - you best get off ... the page that is (sorry for the pun, but I am curious how you even got here).

Anyway there is something almost cute about the whole thing -and sinister too. It may have a surprise for you too. Especially when it comes to the ending ... (no happy ending jokes ... not from me at least, feel free to add some of your own)

Nothing but softcore spanking material

[MBunge · 3/10 · 26 August 2011]

If you like fake boobs, special effects that were cruddy in 1998 and practically look like cave paintings today, the worst episodes of shows like Tales From The Darkside and The Hitchhiker, being bored out of your skull and seeing a man embarrass himself as a writer, director and actor…Virtual Girl is your dream movie. If what you enjoy are motion pictures that don't make you want to wrap your belt around your neck and do an impression of David Carradine…keep your eyes and ears away from this base concoction.

John Lewis (Max Dixon) is a computer programmer who's getting no love at work and no love at home from his wife (Miche Rene Straub). His dickish boss assigns John to work out the bugs in a new game called Virtual Girl. Players strap themselves into a sensor suit, enter the artificial reality of the game and they get to have sex with a cyber-hooker named Virtuality (Charlie Curtis). The program appears to have a mind of its own and Virtuality becomes so obsessed with John that she extends her influence into the real world until John is forced to confront his digital fatal attraction. There's also the completely pointless appearance of the real world model of Virtuality and a twist that is so groan-inducingly stupid even M. Night Shyamalan would say "Man, that was really dumb".

Now, there are a lot of scenes in this film were women are topless, particularly the physically impressive Charlie Curtis. That tells me the folks who made Virtual Girl weren't total nincompoops. They can probably dress and feed themselves and know to have exact change for the bus. But those topless women are the only thing of any value in this movie, only two of them are attractive and some of the boobs are quite fake-looking. The writing and direction on display here barely qualifies as professional, the acting is porn-level bad and the computer effects look like the product of a dateless 17 year old with an Amiga and nothing to do over the weekend.

If this thing were 25 minutes long and on HBO so all the nudity was intact, this would have been perfect for frustrated adolescents to try and watch on scramblevision. At 84 minutes long, it's like watching your grandma die. From continuing to employ establishing shots for locations the audience has seen 5 or 6 times already to a soundtrack that defied space and time to travel back to 1998 from the 2000 Gene Roddenberry TV show Andromeda, Virtual Girl is a cornucopia of weak-ass movie making.

Let me put it this way. There's only one thing you can use this film for and you'd be better off using the women's underwear section from a 1956 Sears catalog. At least you'd be less ashamed when you finished.

Dumb 90s erotic sci fi thriller.

[b_kite · 3/10 · 2 June 2022]

90s erotic sci fi thriller that has a decent amount of fake 90s hooters on display, and an even more amount of crappy 90s CGI. Other than a blink and you'll miss it scene where a guy's head CG explodes, there's nothing much here and it's also really really dumb.

Virtually Soft Porn

[Graz-4 · 10 December 2000]

Yes, this had me expecting a lot, but alas, it didnt deliver a lot.

The girl(s) are great, especially the computerised method of changing from one girl into another seamlessly - phew !,really great - but apart from this aspect, the film really was lacking. It is a reasonable story, though a few along similar lines are around now without the nudity.

Excellent photography, as usual, with the girls.

Is it softcore porn or is it a weird vanity project?

[phenomynouss · 1/10 · 9 August 2020]

I'm not sure what I expected here. The dark poster and sparse description on AmazonPrime led me to believe it would be some kind of goofy 90s cyberpunk horror/thriller along the lines of The Lawnmower Man.

What I got instead was an incredibly goofy, extremely low budget simulated softcore porn type thing. It opens up with an extremely early-90s feel and bad CG and overly dramatic sci-fi music reminiscent of "Babylon 5" which feels like a complete lie as to the actual tone and plot of the film.

The plot is some people develop a virtual reality AI woman to play with and have sex with whoever purchases the software to use. Inexplicably, the woman, called "Virtue" (as in Virtual) kills two of the test guys, and the project is e-assigned to John Lewis, who is married to an attractive woman and has a baby and is thus seemingly immune to Virtue's clumsy flirtation attempts.

There's lots of bare breasts, particularly as Virtue starts switching through various bodies to tempt John with (all portrayed by different women), but none of it is any more than you'd see in an R-rated film. There's also several sex scenes which are similarly not hard enough to stray from a standard R-rating. The number of these tame sex scenes might be excessive for a standard R, but they come across more as tedious than in any way titilating or compelling.

The acting is very bad and the plot is very dumb and suffers from a last minute twist which makes no sense.

While I grew up understanding the early-mid days of the internet and the relative scarcity of pornography compared to today, I am very certain that even as early on as 1998 they had actual pornography, hardcore and softcore, on video and on HBO and on the Spice channel and the likes.

As such, I have no idea who or what this film is for. It's not sexual enough to be a softcore porn, and it's so uninspired and pointless everywhere else (acting, directing, writing, etc) to justify watching.

It's Not Nice to Fool Your AI Girlfrirnd

[cvspataro · 3/10 · 17 September 2022]

You will have to suspend a lot of disbelief in order to make VIRTUAL GIRL work as a sci-fi film. The sex/love sequences are mostly basic T&A. Where is the logic in a scene where a huge explosion takes place in a high rise building, in the business district, and absolutely no one responds? The actors work very hard to make the plot believable but often the dialog works against them. Unfortunately, too often the characters are placed in situations that are not believable. I would rate the overall cinematography and CGI A C+. Bring plenty of popcorn and enjoy the film for what it is, a brief diversion.

A Little Better Than I Anticipated

[Uriah43 · 6/10 · 2 May 2019]

Although he would much prefer working on another project, a computer programmer named "John Lewis" (Matt Dixon) is assigned the task of debugging a virtual sex program known as "Virtual Girl" instead. So, with very little choice in the matter, he connects to the program's interface and finds himself in a room with a sexy computerized woman by the name of "Virtuality" (Charlie Curtis) who can essentially change her environment with just a thought. Yet as seductive as she is, John cannot quite bring himself to forget that he has an equally beautiful wife at home named "Karen Lewis" (Miche Straube) who he loves very much--and his reluctance to fully engage with Virtuality doesn't go unnoticed by her. But what he also doesn't know is that apparently Virtuality is capable of jealousy and that her powers extend beyond her own world. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this science-fiction film turned out to be a little better than I anticipated due in large part to the interesting plot, the attractive actresses just mentioned and the nice twist at the very end. That being said, I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

I admit it...I watched the whole thing.

[JBoze313 · 10/10 · 20 September 2000]

Ya know, when it comes to cheap soft porn flicks, this one isn't half bad. It had a plot! (GASP!) Actually, the movie isn't half bad in respect to the storyline. As for the acting, one could ask for a lot better performances from the unknowns that make up the cast. Just to comment on the main character, Virtuality, I think her name is, the actress who plays her is very beautiful, and if I wasn't a monk, I would marry her. Ok, well, I'm not a monk, but I still won't marry her. Anyhow...I wouldn't recommend setting your alarm so you can wake up at 3:00 A.M. to see this movie, but if you catch it on, you might get into the story...maybe I'm crazy...who knows.

Serves the purpose

[chucky-5 · 30 November 2003]

Caught this one on a trip to Florida in 2000 to see the Jets game. It was my first night on the trip, and I was beat so I headed back to the hotel from the bars around 1 AM. This was showing on whatever the heck station in Fort Lauderdale.

The plot is decent - you dont often get that in soft core stuff. The main characters are bearable to look at and listen to. Even Charlie Curtis showed some ability to act. It could've been done better perhaps. The computer-ish graphics, while part of the plot, serve to cheese up things a bit.

In summary, yeah I'd nail Virtuosity. Er, I mean decent, catch it if you can.

I watched the movie

[Jerr · 10/10 · 25 September 2004]

It is about a virtual girl who falls in love with a man. How can a software/computer fall in love with its programmer? well!!! the case is that they live a torrid romance in virtual world where she knows exactly all of his fantasies and will do anything to satisfy him... UNTIL he decides to quit dating the virtual girl. Somehow she goes out of the vitual world to the real world and things could turn freak and nasty. And yes!! it's got a plot. And yes!! it is about sex.

Do I recommend it? I don't know it just depends on what you're looking for. I just like science fiction and this movie contains a lot of science fiction. How can anyone know the deepest sex fantasies you have? And further more, how can a computer program use them? It's weird, but in a sense wouldn't you like to know a woman who knew all this and was acting the way you ever dreamed? the virtual girl does it.

one of the best of its genre

[villard · 8/10 · 2 March 2009]

OK, I really haven't sat through many soft-core flicks because they are just terribly boring.

But there are three good reasons to remember this film. Two of them are on sex kitten Charlie Curtis. And, the third is that this is the funniest, campiest script I have hear in a long time.

The lines -- whether deliberately written as a parody or not -- are just devastatingly funny. For example: "if you're not happy all the time with your wife, I can take up the slack."

or,

Programmer: "You're asking me to work on a cyber-sex toy for chronic masturbators!"

Boss: "They're our client base."

It's just a totally outrageous, deadpan acted, mindless, cheesy looking story. It's sort of a soft-core TRON, with poor sap Max Dixon (yep, now there's a stud stage name for ya) wresting to save his virtue in cyberspace.

Curtis plays the role of a virtual-reality sex doll to the hilt, and gives a whole new nuance to "hard drive" and "interface." In one arresting scene she morphs into various ladies who all manage to have the same bra cup size for the sake of, er, film continuity.

If you want to do your own home-grown R-rated version of "Mystery Science Theater" this is the flick to watch.

Not surprising that it went straight to video

[Gordon-11 · 5 August 2006]

This film is about a programmer's life falling apart because of a virtual lover program.

In the opening scene we are already treated with a lengthy sex session in a fantasy room. I thought that this film was just a soft porn film, but the amazing thing is that there really is a plot. The plot is plausible and gripping, and it could really have been developed into a major film.

Many a times, the graphics of this film looks like a college graduate production. It is probably because of the low budget, but this explains why the film went straight to video.