Star Nina Hartley candidly explains what this movie aimed for, noting how director Stuart Canterbury delivered "an abbreviated version of the play" by Shakespeare, his adaptation script only 12 pages long. Suitable for a porn film, and surprisingly faithful to the source. (Unfortunately, a decade later Canterbury succumbed to churning out over a dozen crappy porn-parodies, take offs ranging from "Jaws" to "Boardwalk Empire".)
Not without flaws, this is a serious approach to making a real erotic movie, combining explicit sex with key elements and dialogue of the Shakespeare play. Lilting music, terrific sets depicting a forest outdoors but staged in the studio, elegant camerawork by ace Jake Jacobs and fine costumes combine to cast a romantic spell far removed from traditional porno films. Not surprising, because Adam & Eve Productions was producing dozens of classic romantic movies for Couples around that time.
Nina Hartley and Evan Stone star as gods Titania and Oberon, the latter with his playful Puck (McKayla, delightful as both beautiful woman and androgynous male with mustache) causing much of the problems for the star-crossed lovers. Entire cast delivers the authentic Elizabethan dialogue (including a few modern lines like Evan saying "screwed up") well enough to qualify for a mainstream version of the play.
The sex scenes, after the opening segment of a languorous group lesbian extravaganza, feature condoms -the usual anachronism except that at the very end Puck closes the show with his/her monologue wandering from the forest into a movie studio, revealing dolly shot tracks along the floor, indicating we are watching a film.
In the four leading young couples roles, Sydnee Steele, Ava Vincent, Nick East and Michael J. Cox demonstrate their real acting abilities, combined with sex worker prowess, and Kyle Stone as Bottom, making love to Hartley with his donkey makeup on, is both amusing and sexual in character.
As for the lowbrow title pun, it was good enough to show up later as the name of a product sold at Trader Joe's.
