(2016 Video)

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Larry Flynt misses an easy target
lor_17 October 2016
Flynt's Hustler Video label issues many a horrible video, especially its ongoing line of parody (= ripoff) features. This mocking of Donald Trump fulfills the owner's admirable efforts to support (or oppose) political causes that are important to him, but is preposterously bad and an utter failure in skewering its easy targets.

It's also instantly dated, geared towards the end of the primary campaign and concerning Trump's search for a running mate. In the urge to be speedy and topical, Flynt and his untalented filmmakers missed the boat.

So no Mike Pence here, but rather picking on Rubio, Cruz and Palin. Trump is portrayed by a hammier than usual Evan Stone, who brings his Robin Wiliams imitator persona so familiar from dozens of BTS short subjects (wherein he makes fun of the crew and film he's working on) to free-associate Trumpisms and silly asides as if there were a real script involved. His performance is poor and his participating in the XXX sex footage marks him as over-the-hill in that department.

So this 3-hour mess that plays like a 1-day wonder (cheap sets repeated, no action to speak of apart from the humping) merely affords top-heavy porn actresses a chance to f*ck by the numbers. Britney Amber, unrecognizable with dark hair and glasses, gives the worst Sarah Palin impression ever done in public and the other girls seem embarrassed.

Director Steve Matts, who IMDb either confuses with a famous camera equipment supplier or perhaps gets it right in having that fellow decide on a late career move to the director's chair (with no evidence of direction in the finished product) seems to have made it a point of honor that the actors and actresses do not resemble their real-life targets whatsoever. Perhaps that was an intentional decision, because I read the boiler-plate disclaimer on screen that none of the characters are meant to resemble any real personages, and unfortunately that is true in this case.
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