Instead of delivering what has later been christened "porn-parody" Michael Zen wisely chose to make fun of his own segment of the industry, namely Adult Cinema, with this Jenna Jameson vehicle. Unlike the naysayers (they abound on IMDb apparently), it is all the better for not kowtowing to the superstar's status but giving her ensemble cast mates a chance to shine, too.
Steven St. Croix is effective in drag costume and makeup emulating Carmen Miranda (!) as a cross-dressing film director who hires Nancy Drew-styled intrepid reporter Jenna for his currently shooting project "The Legend of the Golden Oyster". There is considerable film-within-a- film content here, sometimes poorly edited and with continuity issues (for example, the showpiece "3 cum shots in succession" T.T. Boy scene), but generally the video is fun and funny. Particularly cute is Jackie Beat also in drag (and styled a bit after Divine) as Jenna's harridan of a boss at a gossip rag who's assigned JJ to get the goods on St. Croix's character.
Pic's opening of St. Croix on the couch, seduced by his horny shrink Rebecca Lord has a terrific performance by the French beauty, and Lana Sands as an actress playing an Amazonian woman in the "Oyster" film is effective providing IR content. There are many inside references, notably a spoofing of the industry's obsession (then and now) with anal sex, as we see a scene from the fictitious "Anal Snow Bunnies", as well as a mocking of the leading man's inability to deliver a money shot on cue, forcing St. Croix to doff his dress and don male attire to hump his lesbian amanuensis Jeanna Fine in the movie's climactic vignette. Gender issues and stereotyping are well-delineated here in comic fashion.
Jenna looks marvelous and has three distinct styles: ultra glam in a masturbation scene involving a cryptic, talking Blue Ball; empathetic and innocent-seeming as the reporter, and finally taking on a Monroe aspect near the end credits, restyled with shorter platinum blonde hairdo.
One interesting sidelight: The DVD released 9 years after the VHS original has quite a bit of excised footage that illuminates the changes in editing and audience-demanded content in the changeover from the VHS era to DVDs and now website/streaming delivery. Sex scenes in the film proper are concise and to the point, while the Bonus scenes on the DVD run endlessly like current practice. This is especially obvious in the rearrangement of T.T. Boy's exemplary 3 money shots back to back footage with Jenna, garbled in the shortened VHS cut.