So Extra

Quasarman has directed over a thousand porn videos over three decades and makes fun of shooting porn in "So Extra". He picks obvious, easy targets and his script isn't very funny as a result.

Weak story, narrated by lead Melissa Stratton, has her playing a waitress from Wisconsin who travels to Los Angeles with boyfriend Robby Echo to break into the film business, initially doing extra work on "indie films". Of course those indies turn out to be porn shoots where NonSex players are often employed. Seth Gamble, playing her first director, comically clears up the indie tag by stating they would never work for major porn labels (the real Seth is contracted with major Wicked and works for the top companies).

Now I would hope that Quasarman would be more self-deprecating. There is verbal mention of Isiah Maxwell and his big cock (he's one of the "So Extra" co-stars) but why not make fun of Robby Echo for changing his stage name from Echo to Apples (that's pretty silly for starters)? Also, I have often wondered how the most prolific NonSex players in porn, like Frank Bukkywd, James Bartholet and Slick Rhodes make a living or how much they're paid as "Extras", and Quasarman avoids this issue. Similarly, Brazzers employs many femme extras, whose names are unknown, never credited.

Instead there is a repetitive mockery of the craze for faux incest porn movies, been prominent for many years and no longer a timely subject. Closer to the bone is Robby fancying himself a real actor but doing such a terrible job in his first assignment as a cuck that production assistant Shawn Alff takes over the role. Similarly, director Seth take over for Rusty Nails to hump "stepdaughter" Camryn Chanel when Nails can't get it up.

That sums up the entire picture, with Tommy Pistol as the porn producer having BDSM role-play with his girlfriend Kay Lovely and spouting tired defense of porn. His overacting here for comic effect is indistinguishable from his overacting in character in hundreds of porn non-comedies.

Stupid "Hollywood ending" has Robby resolving that he and Melissa should make their own porn movie "our way", shot on a bed with his phone and seen by Hollywood director David Lord on-line, who offers them a million bucks a week later to option their story and give them exec producer credits -with Katy Jayne starring as Melissa. Yeah, right.

Movie compares unfavorably to any of the Wicked rom-coms (I've watched them all) made a decade or so ago by directors like Jonathan Morgan, Michael Raven and Stormy Daniels. Most obvious difference is that the length of a typical XXX scene has doubled or even tripled since then, crowding out most of the story and dialogue.