The Five Sins

IMDb overplays in its listing this feature's relationship to the Spice Girls, but on its own we get a fun portrait of the dynamics, and sex, involving a 5-girl singing group. There's precious little singing, and just a dollop of lousy on-stage choreography, but the cast's enthusiasm makes it watchable.

Stock footage of a concert audience is clumsily (and unconvincingly) inter-cut with the fivesome on stage cavorting in evidently a small studio facility. The girls are not identified with the Spice Girls nicknames listed in IMDb but rather have Christian names mentioned instead.

Toni James stars as Maggie, whose intention to leave the group and launch a solo career, with the connivance of group's manager Kyle Stone, is the basis for the show's plot. It's resolution is predictable and the audience is not expected to get deeply involved with such cornball Showbiz clichés.

Instead we watch the rest of the cast, unlike James littered with superstars, have sex and act perky, a winning combination for Sin City. Far from the high-brow labels of its day like Adam & Eve, Digital Playground, Vivid or Wicked, Sin City can be counted to deliver a good, sexy yarn, alongside its endless stream of mindless gonzo videos that paid the bills.

The wonderful Dee and Stephanie Swift, whose names I kind of deduced to be Coco and Goldie, are delightful in far less demanding assignments than they usually received, especially Swift who soon became an icon for Wicked. For some reason Chloe, another superstar here cast in the role of Dee -just to confuse me, is not credited. She has nothing to be ashamed of, however, as light entertainment is provided.