David Stanley, clearly given free reign during his Vivid Video stint, foisted this TV satire on the public, so sophomoric and unfunny that he even included a brief short at the end sort of apologizing, as the show's host played by "Big Tasty" tells us that the director (David Stanley of course) ended up in an insane asylum, and that the movie clearly wasn't funny.
It's about "Film Forum", a show on BBS America with BIg Tasty as a pompous host with phony mustache, pipe and attitude plus crummy British accent, sitting in front of a roaring fireplace. David Stanley plays his producer, occasionally on screen to reassure Big Tasty that he'll get a raise if he doesn't quit. Portraying one Professor Irwin R. Lexington, he gets very angry that the classic foreign films he's showing turn out to be crappy porn satires (by David Stanley) mostly in beautiful black and white.
In a way, what Stanley is doing reminds at times of Monty Python, especially with the fake British angle, but that's an insult to John Cleese, Graham Chapman & co. The montages of contrasting genre images feature many Stanley tropes such as his familiar Gorilla suit character and don't do much to suggest (as intended) what a stereotypical tv addict with remote control who's out of control, might see. Stanley's cornball Patriotic signoff montage at the end of a broadcast day is childish, hardly creative satire.
But what sinks this dumb project is how the humor and everything else halts periodically for a mandatory (if novel in black & white for a change) 10-minute dull XXX scene, five in total, as if that was the only thing Vivid required him to deliver -bottom line. One of these is a sex scene on the show "Fixer Uppers", making fun of those home remodeling reality shows, with Chris Cannon humping away in color, and delivering his money shot on co-star Malezia's toes, Stanley's favorite fetish. Malezia is a failed porn "star", here sponsored by Vivid at the beginning of her unimpressive career.
The black & white "movies" essentially mock film buffs, such as a 1931 German classic with Eric Masterson & Malezia that's just stupid, a 1949 casting couch sketch starring the team of Voodoo and Nicole Sheridan, and a well-shot (by Ralph Parfait) in high contrast b&w spoof of New Wave movies with Evan Stone and Malezia styled with wig as a Monica Vitti type. Prof. Irwin is a poor man's cross between Mike Myers and that funny Dan Aykroyd character named after a softcore porn producer "B. Ron Elliott".
I've watched most of Stanley's movies (he seemingly is retired now) and while he showed both originality and signs of comic talent from time to time, not so in this stinker. It has no reason to exist other than for him to show off his enviable independence (at the time) as filmmaker, thumbing his nose at the front office Vivid execs by delivering utter crap for them to release, take it or leave it.
It's about "Film Forum", a show on BBS America with BIg Tasty as a pompous host with phony mustache, pipe and attitude plus crummy British accent, sitting in front of a roaring fireplace. David Stanley plays his producer, occasionally on screen to reassure Big Tasty that he'll get a raise if he doesn't quit. Portraying one Professor Irwin R. Lexington, he gets very angry that the classic foreign films he's showing turn out to be crappy porn satires (by David Stanley) mostly in beautiful black and white.
In a way, what Stanley is doing reminds at times of Monty Python, especially with the fake British angle, but that's an insult to John Cleese, Graham Chapman & co. The montages of contrasting genre images feature many Stanley tropes such as his familiar Gorilla suit character and don't do much to suggest (as intended) what a stereotypical tv addict with remote control who's out of control, might see. Stanley's cornball Patriotic signoff montage at the end of a broadcast day is childish, hardly creative satire.
But what sinks this dumb project is how the humor and everything else halts periodically for a mandatory (if novel in black & white for a change) 10-minute dull XXX scene, five in total, as if that was the only thing Vivid required him to deliver -bottom line. One of these is a sex scene on the show "Fixer Uppers", making fun of those home remodeling reality shows, with Chris Cannon humping away in color, and delivering his money shot on co-star Malezia's toes, Stanley's favorite fetish. Malezia is a failed porn "star", here sponsored by Vivid at the beginning of her unimpressive career.
The black & white "movies" essentially mock film buffs, such as a 1931 German classic with Eric Masterson & Malezia that's just stupid, a 1949 casting couch sketch starring the team of Voodoo and Nicole Sheridan, and a well-shot (by Ralph Parfait) in high contrast b&w spoof of New Wave movies with Evan Stone and Malezia styled with wig as a Monica Vitti type. Prof. Irwin is a poor man's cross between Mike Myers and that funny Dan Aykroyd character named after a softcore porn producer "B. Ron Elliott".
I've watched most of Stanley's movies (he seemingly is retired now) and while he showed both originality and signs of comic talent from time to time, not so in this stinker. It has no reason to exist other than for him to show off his enviable independence (at the time) as filmmaker, thumbing his nose at the front office Vivid execs by delivering utter crap for them to release, take it or leave it.