This amounts to an elongated episode of Jerry Springer's notorious tabloid TV
talk show, where the audience gets to go behind the cameras and discover how
Springer and crew panhandle for dirty laundry. The faux drama revolves
around a trailer-trash mom, her fellatio-feasting daughter, the man of the
trailer (the employment-challenged stepfather, whom they both sleep with), and
the farm-boy fiancé -- who unwittingly takes his fiancée's
diaphragm for a test drive with his mother-in-law-to-be. That's good enough to
get them on Springer's show, along with a couple of hip-hop sisters from
Detroit who have dogged their best friend's man. Things get even dicier when
the rednecks and the Motown crew get set up in the same LA hotel, where a whole
lot of bed games and selfish depravity goes down.
Fans of Jerry will be ecstatic over the unbridled use of profanity and
gratuitous servings of T&A. The writers even try to make the trashy
characters likable, though everyone dwells at the same level of contemptuous
amorality. But the most reprehensible act in the film comes from Springer
himself: not his being in bed and having sex to his favorite episode, or his
weary, "above it all" scowl, but his outburst of moral vindication in the wake
of an emotional fracas that was carefully incited by his salacious muckraking.
--Tom Meek
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