Since Sunny Lane was contemplating a return to porn, where she reigned a few years ago as the most delectable young thing around, it made sense to auteur James Avalon to place her at the center of this insider look at the other side of porn, the "dancing" gigs. Unfortunately, Sunny is no Gloria Swanson.
Yes, it would take a true veteran, somebody who could sincerely say "We had faces then", as Gloria so memorably enunciated in Billy Wilder's dark classic SUNSET BLVD. Instead we have Sunny, older and more fleshed out, washed up at age 32. Synopsis indicates she's playing Mr. Pete's wife, headline stripper at the club he owns, but Avalon does not establish this fact well in the dramaturgy. I thought good ol' Pete merely had the hots for her, not that they were hitched.
What does emerge as plot is a timid variant on the overly used ALL ABOUT EVE format, but without Joe Mankiewicz's wit or ingenuity. Asa Akira is the stripper on the way up who gets hired by club's manager Marcus London after humping him. Confusingly (though these Sweet Sinner films are usually stand-alone), London also co-starred in the first STRIPPER film but in an entirely different role as a customer who gets to hump title roler Jennifer White.
Besides the two femme superstars having sex, Yurizan Beltran brings her huge chest and talents to steal center stage as another stripper whose lap dance with auditor Richie Calhoun (looking mighty nerdy with a different hair style than usual) turns into full-blown servicing.
Lane's dance routines are poor, including one striptease that lasts 13 minutes and is badly handled by Avalon, who has the same background library stripper music play over about three or four times to fill the running time. The Lane/Asa rivalry is not developed or interesting, so at 163 minutes the feature is just bloated. Many extras appear and get a screen credit. All told, not one of Sweet Sinner's successful series.
