Who's the Boss? A XXX Parody

Who's the Boss? A XXX Parody
February 14, 2010
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To make a long story short, a year ago I rediscovered Who's the Boss? in time for the 30th anniversary.  I'd watched it at the time but it was very interesting to revisit it.  And part of that revisiting ended up being watching this porn parody in the sub-sub-genre of "sitcums."  Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, it's porn with a laugh track.  And with the "audience" squealing over kissing and suggestive lines.  (Luckily, both tracks are silent during the sex scenes.)  The comedy portions are pretty contrived, and the funniest thing about the writing is the writer's name, Crystal D. Lite.  (Which seems fitting, since Bud Wiser produced the actual show.)  The movie is directed by Lee Roy Myers, who appears to be the king of the porn parody.  And, yes, with this source material, the movie is also a rom-com, since we want Tony & Angela to get together, and, oh, yes, they definitely do.

However, as with Sex Files, there are other pairings and groupings.  I generally enjoyed these more than in Files, since there was more set-up for why these people were together and the sex seemed less interminable.  In fact, the Sam & Marcy pairing is actually a bit sweet and sexy.  Yes, "Marcy" with a Y rather than an I.  The movie is not exactly canonical to the show.  The Tony & Angela dynamic is similar to the first season, with him walking in on her in the bathroom, as he did early on in the show.  (Rosano also walks in on Kimberly Kane in Sex Files, although it's less farcical there of course.)  This Angela pulls rank more than the TV version usually did, especially in later seasons.  In fact, there are unresolved class issues here, unresolved even after consummation, not that I expected a serious political treatise of course.

The biggest change is that "the kids" have been aged up by about a decade, so that they're in college and thus able to have girlfriends.  Sam has a boyfriend, too, Jesse, who, unlike his TV counterpart, who was very much the late '80s activist, is sexist enough to think girls don't need to go to college.  He ends up with Mona in the kitchen, even though Sam and Marcy are in the next room.  In fact, the entire movie is set in the house, with a very tiny cast (ten people), none of whom walk in on anything more than mild making out.

The casting in the movie ranges from way off to dead on.  I don't at all care for 43-year-old Payton Leigh as Mona, or the final sex scene, where she has slaves up in her room (proving that she's the boss) and she hardly interacts with them.  She doesn't look or sound a bit like Katherine Helmond, not even a younger, Soap-era Helmond.  And obviously she's much too young to be playing the grandmother of a college student.

Anthony Rosano and India Summer were both 33 at the time this was released, she a few months older than he, so they're not too far off from the ages of first-season Tony Danza and Judith Light, although, again, too young to be the parents of college "kids."  (Rosano and Summer would reunite in The Graduate XXX, as respectively Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson, despite their lack of age difference.)   Twenty-three-year-old Alyssa Reece plays Sam and 22-year-old Sonny Hicks is Jonathan and they're reasonably well cast, looking and sounding enough like their TV counterparts to not be distracting like Leigh.

Summer somewhat has the look of Judith Light, although she's wearing an obvious blonde wig.  She's tall and slender with a small chest and long legs.  She doesn't really sound like Light and she does seem overly uptight, except of course when she lets herself go in the sex scene.  Rosano on the other hand is perfectly cast.  (And Danza-ly cast, considering his screen name is Anthony, so he is another Tony playing Tony.  He also was Tony in the porn parody of Taxi that same year.)  He doesn't quite look like Danza but he sounds like him.  Even during the sex scene, he's perfectly in character, yes, with an "ay-oh" here and there.  If everyone were on his level, I would give this movie a much higher rating.  Watch this movie for him, especially with Summer.  They have good chemistry together, in the sexual tension scenes as well as the release of tension scene.  And they're actually adorable in the post-coital goo-goo eyes scene.  Pity that the movie doesn't end right after that.

Lexi Belle, who plays Marcy, would again be a College Student in Graduate XXX.