When Pure Pleasure 3-D arrived on my doorstep, I figured I was in for a good time. With a title like that, how can it be anything other than 3-D smut? Well, imagine my surprise when I pop open the packaging and find… get this… a relaxation video. Interesting, huh?

So, once I got over the initial disappointment that came when I found out that this wasn't porn, I threw the disc in my player, grabbed myself a cold can of Pabst Blue Ribbon (to enhance the relaxation I assumed would come as I worked through the disc), and put on my 3-D glasses. What I ended up with was a mild headache and no small amount of confusion.

The disc is really divided up into two sections, though there is quite a bit of overlap between the two. Anyway, the two section are Nature Environments and Non Nature Environments. The first 15 chapters are Non Nature and are comprised of nine 3-D chapters and seven non-3-D chapters.

In 3-D we get Snow Flight, Fish Circle, Jellyfish Ballet, Return To Portofino, River Reflections, Train To Geneva, Yellowstone Rapids, and Red Rocks of Utah. The titles are more or less self-explanatory and there aren't any real surprises as to what's there. Surprisingly, the 3-D effects, done in the Pulfrich Effect, work rather well. For the first few minutes at least – then you start to develop a bit of a headache. It's kind of neat though to check out a few of these scenes, just don't stare at them too long until you feel like your eyes are going to start bleeding like I did and you should be ok.

The non-3-D chapters are Steaming Pools of Yellowstone, Waterfalls, Surf At Sunset In California, Glowing Creek, Warm Fire, Tivoli Fountains, and finally Pompei Saturday Night. Again, the chapters more or less explain what we see. These are set to some music that, just like the 3-D chapters are, that in theory should soothe you, but unless you're into new age style music (and I'm honestly not at all), it may not have that effect on your. But hey, if new age music works for you, maybe the footage would be more effective.

The Nature Environments are similar to the others, but there is no background music at all, just the natural sounds. Hence, the name. Makes sense, right? Right. Anyway, we get nine chapters here and if some of them sound familiar, it's because they are identical, at least visually, to some of the chapters in the first section. We're treated to River Reflections, Steaming Pool, Curtain Waterfall, Dome Waterfall, Gap Waterfall, Glowing Rapids, Surf At Sunset, Crackling Fire, and Tivoli Fountain.

Last but not least is a five minute speech from the director of the project, that kind of puts the entire thing into context as far as what he was working towards in creating this DVD.

Video:

The picture quality on this release is surprisingly decent. It's nice and clear with good color reproduction and only some slight edge enhancement to watch out for. Contrast appears to be set properly and there isn't any print damage at all (I'm guessing most of this material was shot on digital video and just ported over, which would result in a very clean picture – which is what we have here).