PT is almost frank about this project in the 18-minute BTS featured on a phony 2nd disk of the DVD package (marketed pretending to offer a bonus), noting that the original porn he directed has recently been outsold consitently by the trendy porn-parody genre of "tapes" (note that he doesn't call them DVDs in 2011). So he's joining the bandwagon and surprisingly is proud of the result. Apologies to "Mike and Buck" are listed in the end credits, as if Nichols and Henry cared.
What emerges is a competent enough Cliff's Notes imitation of the original movie, with the sophomoric humor generally falling flat. Casting of India Summer as Mrs. Robinson is a plus, while Anthony Rosano is stiff and mechanical in the iconic Dustin Hoffman role of Ben.
PT also helped me understand, at this late date, why Ron Jeremy is so frequently cast in the latter, non-porn days of his career. Thomas notes that giving him the famous "Plastics" line (here changed to "plastic novelties" to mean sex toys) works because Ron just showing up in a movie is all that matters. And RJ Hyatt adds zero in his dull walk-through cameo, while he gets an embarrassing 4th billing in the opening credits.
Raven Alexis instead of Katharine Ross is quite effective, exuding innocence, and unlike Summer and Rosano she does not automatically signal to the viewer that we're watching a porn performer rather than a character on screen (due to their hundreds of credits and over-familiarity). Other prominent porn actresses like Kagney Linn Karter (a natural for the stripper with pasties role played by Lainie Miler in the original) and Veronica Avluv deliver the necessary XXX content.
Wishful thinking is all one can say when PT enthuses that he would expect the original cast of "The Graduate" to appreciate what he's done with the material, but right down to the "original music" (alternately credited here to Lord Phallus or, in the BTS credits, Rob Crow and Jeff Placeholder) what he has created is merely plagiarism, like all the other so-called porn parodies.
