Michael Zen and his talented screenwriter Raven Touchstone fashioned this entertaining two-parter, more of a pastiche than a porn parody. Taking Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo" as prime inspiration. It impressed me no end.
Asia Carrera as the gamine heroine, losing herself in watching the 1940s romantic film noir "Easy to Love" starring Leena and Steven St. Croix. Zen takes the movie within a movie concept and does a great job with it, moving smoothly between movie and reality as well as from black & white to color with ease.
Basically, Leena suddenly starts talking back to Asia through her large-screen TV as she watches her performance as a stripper for the umpteenth time, and they agree to change places, with the remote as the activator of the switch. This is after we've watched some of Leena's movie, which begins with a quite accurate lift of the opening of Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd.", with a dead character Paula narrating in voiceover as we see her corpse floating in a pool.
Leena takes over Paula's place in the movie's story and does a fine striptease (in color), before making the bargain for Asia to replace her in the movie, while she pretends to be Asia's cousin from Cleveland in the real world. Sexy Krista, who is given to plenty of masturbating and changing her wigs, play Asia's roommate.
The way each of the two women adapt to their new worlds is fascinating, and Touchstone/Zen also play wonderfully with the limitations of the differing milieu. Especially fun is the fact that the movie characters cannot have sex due to the censorship of the time, while Leena is not just thrilled to discover a new world of color but also have sex, too.
Part 1 of "CineSex" ends with a cliffhanger of Asia and her new fictional movie boyfriend Steven St. Croix threatened by gangster Guy DiSilva, leaving the best plot twists for Part 2, released the following year. But it's a tantalizing Adult movie, much cleverer than other big projects of the VHS era, including those by Michael Zen and his peers Michael Raven and Michael Ninn.
Asia Carrera as the gamine heroine, losing herself in watching the 1940s romantic film noir "Easy to Love" starring Leena and Steven St. Croix. Zen takes the movie within a movie concept and does a great job with it, moving smoothly between movie and reality as well as from black & white to color with ease.
Basically, Leena suddenly starts talking back to Asia through her large-screen TV as she watches her performance as a stripper for the umpteenth time, and they agree to change places, with the remote as the activator of the switch. This is after we've watched some of Leena's movie, which begins with a quite accurate lift of the opening of Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd.", with a dead character Paula narrating in voiceover as we see her corpse floating in a pool.
Leena takes over Paula's place in the movie's story and does a fine striptease (in color), before making the bargain for Asia to replace her in the movie, while she pretends to be Asia's cousin from Cleveland in the real world. Sexy Krista, who is given to plenty of masturbating and changing her wigs, play Asia's roommate.
The way each of the two women adapt to their new worlds is fascinating, and Touchstone/Zen also play wonderfully with the limitations of the differing milieu. Especially fun is the fact that the movie characters cannot have sex due to the censorship of the time, while Leena is not just thrilled to discover a new world of color but also have sex, too.
Part 1 of "CineSex" ends with a cliffhanger of Asia and her new fictional movie boyfriend Steven St. Croix threatened by gangster Guy DiSilva, leaving the best plot twists for Part 2, released the following year. But it's a tantalizing Adult movie, much cleverer than other big projects of the VHS era, including those by Michael Zen and his peers Michael Raven and Michael Ninn.