One of Paul Thomas's worst projects, it has a big cast and big-budget (compared to current standards, that is), some local color shooting in New Orleans, but is a complete mess. It reminds me of those days when mainstream movies were shot by clowns while high.

David Stanley wrote the screenplay, which is disastrous. It's basically a vehicle for Vivid Video contract girl Sky, who plays cheerleader Debbie, of porno fim fame from the good old Theatrical porn days. Her adventures are stupid: engaged to creep/cheater Bobby Vitale who owns a sleazy motel. She only wants to watch the Super Bowl, as crass a tie-in as Paul & David could imagine.

Many, many scenes depict live sex shows with ethnic audiences (tourists?) and some big-name stars performing. I suspect these scenes were all shot back in Los Angeles, but the impression is attempted to show how low-down The BIg Easy is. Crass, baby.

Many extras and non-sex folks are included, without credit, including transvestite hookers. Wendy Divine, later to become Stanley's favorite actress when he became a full-time director, is wasted as a fellow cheerleader.

Last part of the show is taken over by Devin Wolf faking a Southern accent (he was so much better in movies for other labels at the time like Adam & Eve) who starts romancing Debbie, with Blair Segal along for the ride in threesomes with them. Ending is cryptic -sort of a "only a dream" type of copout. Also cryptic are scenes with a fat guy dressed up like a harlequin or a cheerleader-white-slave-trafficking teased subplot (very confusing).

When a project is messed up like this one, in the mainstream world, it gets shelved, the footage eventually left in a dumpster. In porn, it gets released to an unsuspecting public.

While her cheerleader teammates are already having fun around town, Debbie feels neglected by her fiancé. She decides it's time for her to get all the love and attention she deserves, even publicly on stage.

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