In the ‘70s, porn star Bill Cable started work on a movie called What is Love?, but never got around to finishing it. A decade later, porn director Carlos Tobalina decided to finally complete the sucker. It’s not good, but on the plus side, some of the hottest porn starlets of all time like Sharon Kelly and Ginger Lynn show up. The downside is that the sex scenes are all softcore and they are far from their best work.
A cop (Cable) pulls the Devil (Troy Walker) over for smoking grass. He gets back at him by making his motorcycle disappear and causes him to have visions of becoming a crucified, pot-smoking Jesus. After the cop dies, his brother (Tom Byron) becomes a priest. Meanwhile, his cousin (Ginger Lynn) makes him break his vows by seducing him and together, they enter into a suicide pact. She leaves all her money to her best friend (Colleen Brennan), who tries to make it with a cop who may be the reincarnation of the cop from the beginning of the movie (also Cable).
Confused? Don’t worry. The jumps in plotlines and switches in characters (not to mention film stocks from the two separate productions) are often jarring and downright perplexing. Then again, what do you expect from a cobbled together decades in the making non-porno movie from porno filmmakers? The nightclub act where the music and the performer’s lips never come close to matching is good for a laugh though.
Considering everybody’s porn background, I’m not sure why they just didn’t make this a XXX picture. Not that hardcore action could’ve saved this mess, but it couldn’t have hurt. It doesn’t help that whenever the filmmakers try to get artsy, they wind up falling flat on their face. Consider the scene where Cable is dressed as Jesus and banging women. It’s far from titillating and the artistic aspirations are dubious at best.
Contrast that with the artsy handling of Barbara, which also appears on The Lost Picture Show box set. That film was experimental and even though it was uneven, when it hit, it worked. This is just a self-important mess that really has no idea of the message it’s trying to convey.
I mean, I’ll watch anything that has Ginger in it, but damn… this was bad. At least Tobalina is smart enough to know if he has to have a dialogue scene between Ginger and Colleen Brennan, you might as well have them both be topless. I will say the Ginger scenes are… like… 100% more tolerable than the shit with Cable and the Devil. However, if you really want to see Ginger and Byron going at it, there are dozens of hardcore movies you could watch instead of the simulated scenes in this piece of crap.
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