Alice

Bill Osco & teammates created the classic XXX "Alice in Wonderland" film 35 years ago, memorably starring Kristine DeBell, and still quite popular. So why did untalented pornographers (check the directors' prior credits) have the temerity to crank out the crummy video ALICE recently? Obviously because Tim Burton made a big-budget film and the current wave of Adult porn mavens insist on satirizing everything for fun but mostly for profit.

I watched this stinker because casting Sunny Lane in the title role sounded like a winning idea. But the peaches & cream beauty is wasted in mechanical sex scenes, campily overdone costumes and a repellently ugly video, made with a goth sensibility. I don't admire Burton's goofy visuals, but this video is yucky. Of course, in the inverted value system of late, it was nominated for many awards by porn scribes. Go figure.

After suffering through an unarousing, idiotic two hours, I was struck by the fact that a lot more effort went into the packaging of the video than in shooting it. Pretentious and attempted-kinky (but failing even in that department), it's hardly the followup to the adventurous porn (see Rinse Dream, etc.) that once tried to break through the boundaries of this genre.