User Reviews

Good LORD, this was awful. Hilariously so. Always interested in docs about the porn industry, so we thought we'd check it out. Don't quite know where to start---the most entertaining footage is of an overweight, very old looking Ron Jeremy falling asleep in public places. Yup, that's the highlight. There are about 20 such scenes, sprinkled through the movie, in between "interviews" with a surgeon, a reality-show preacher, a couple of rabbis, a life coach and a naked lady in a pool, who is built like a Sherman tank--all of whom are straight out of a Chris Guest mockumentary. Ostensibly a cautionary tale centered around Mr. Jeremy's recent surgery to correct an aortic dissection (which is explained and described for what seems like hours, punctuated by archaic animated medical stock footage), it is no doubt well-intentioned, but amateurish beyond belief (the director herself shows up in several scenes in mirrors, filming it with her phone.) And yeah, there are sex scenes, dropped in seemingly at random, horribly grainy, scratchy and colorized, and frequently used multiple times. The actual interviews with poor Mr. Jeremy are almost agonizing to watch, and the rest of the bunch are nearly as bad. Oh, yeah, there's also extensive footage of Sam Kinison (cuz Ron knew him), and Sam Kinison's BROTHER, who gets what seems like a half-hour of screen time. Absolute funniest moment is when the director/interviewer/phone-camera-person is interviewing Jeremy and the "beloved" owner of the brothel featured on the HBO series "Cathouse," and asks, with a wink, what's the biggest perk of being pals with the owner of the Bunny Ranch (nudge nudge). And without missing a beat and completely serious, Jeremy AND the owner both earnestly answer "the food!" And go on to talk about the wonderful catering, at length. Ron does play a little piano, but despite the ample female nudity on display, never gets to show off his money-maker, which I guess was a decision to keep the whole thing "classy." Good LORD, was this awful. Ed Wood awful.