Perpetual loser Lester (Chris Pratt) wins a vintage porno booth in a contest and invites his buddy Carl (Brendan Hines) over to check it out. When they go inside the booth, they are magically whisked away into an old porno movie. While the uptight Carl tries to find a way out, Lester sets out to make the best of the situation by trying (and failing) to hook up with as many hot sorority babes, sexy cheerleaders, and naughty nurses as he can.
Despite the fact that the characters find themselves in an old porno, the movie itself is strangely chaste. There’s no nudity (except for Pratt’s butt) and the innuendo would feel at home on a sitcom. In fact, with a few slight edits, it probably could’ve been PG-13.
Pratt is kind of funny and gives the best performance of the movie, but I can’t help to think he’s probably embarrassed by the film given his conservative lifestyle. Denise Richards looks foxy as ever as the sorority house’s den mother and Christopher McDonald (looking like a gaunt Ron Jeremy) is the porno director/inventor of the nudie booth. Scott Caan is amusing as the detective trying to bust our heroes. It’s just a shame he wasn’t given any funny lines.
The whole film is like that though. There’s a good idea for movie here. (It’s kind of like Delirious, except with a porno instead of a soap opera.) I mean, who wouldn’t want to be sucked in a porno flick? Let me rephrase that. Who wouldn’t want to find themselves transported into a porno? However, the filmmakers never really take full advantage of the admittedly solid premise.
It feels like a case where they had a solid first draft of the script where they mapped out the plot, situations, and character development, and assumed they could always go back and add more jokes later. Except, they kinda forgot to do that by the time the cameras rolled. The jokes that are there are obvious (people have sex at the drop of a hat, the cops wear tight uniforms that show off their cleavage, etc.) and aren’t especially funny.
The biggest problem is the lack of T & A. I could’ve been more forgiving of the lame humor if there were scads of nudity about. (You know, like a real porno.) Sadly, that wasn’t the case. Overall, Deep in the Valley is rather shallow.
AKA: Hot Babes.
AKA: American Hot Babes.
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