Its tag line reads "Keep on Giving Me..." hence THE SWEETEST TABOO is an XXX-rated attempt to cash in on the hit Sade song, which still sounds great 30 years later. Not so this desultory video, a test of any porn fan or student of cinema structure.
Director Ken Gibb(s), a quality photographer but evidently not a wise choice for helming, needlessly mixes up time sequences and abandons pacing altogether as he pastes together sex scenes and "plot" willy-nilly. I did some do-over viewing with my DVD copy but to no avail -this hodge-podge makes no sense at all.
To begin with, early on we have the feel of an unfinished project, as the "story" revolves around a trio of nubile young babes, but the 3-some varies segment to segment. As a result, top-billed Kimberly Carson is lost in the shuffle. Her role or at least position in the femme front-line opposite Desiree Lane and Ginger Lynn is replaced for most scenes by the unfamiliar Cindy Brookes (as spelled in the credits), and I was mightily confused.
In mainstream cinema we have of course the case of the late Heath Ledger, where various actor friends filled in for him to complete unfinished scenes in that posthumous Terry Gilliam release. Far more interestingly was Bunuel's classic THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIERE, where he cast two dissimilar actresses to play the same role in various scenes for an unsettling effect.
In SWEETEST TABOO, the gimmick is the gals out for fun in a Winnebago borrowed from Kimberly's parents, recalling prior sexual incidents in a borrowed RV (with Cindy featured in the flashbacks). Or vice versa - I still don't get it. Their uninteresting sexual adventures reach an apotheosis in a flashback of blonde Desiree befriending (in flashback) Paul Thomas as Glen, a hobo who knocks on her RV door. He talks with a Liverpudlian accent that sounds like a bad impression of George Harrison, yet she falls in love with the twerp. Perhaps to prove that pornographers are irreverent, Glen laughs as he mentions "Andy Kaufman died last night", and the improvising porn performers make fun of Andy as "that guy from TAXI". Later on when the gals are picked up by dirty old men R. Bolla and Ron Jeremy, Ron makes fun of Paul's fake French accent -he apparently was not privy to the Liverpool gambit or the video's "script" was altered.
This nonsensically confusing farrago culminates in a particularly stupid climactic scene of the cast (minus Kim) hearing noises at night, exiting the RV and seeing two couples making love by a campfire. Both women are on top, Mindy Rae and Tantala Ray, and after we watch their humongous boobs bouncing around (in oddly a 100% softcore sex scene) for the umpteenth time, the cast realizes Tantala is Cindy's mother. How dramatic!
Coda has a forlorn Desiree wandering down the beach in present time, bumping into, you guessed it, Glen for a romantic fadeout. Thus ends among the most incompetently thrown together features I've ever sat through. Other than an occasional wailing saxophone, the crummy video's soundtrack doesn't even attempt to capture the sublime, infectious mood created by Sade at the outset of her career.
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