Not a porn-parody from Jim Powers nor his gonzo mode, "Friends and Family" skirts the popular incest genre by emphasizing the "friends" over the "family" of its title.
Two broods intersect in the mix and match screenplay, as the friends Evan Stone and shaved-head Mark Davis each are patriarchs of quite horny and oversexe households.
You almost need a scorecard to keep straight all the romantic entanglements, but by film's end Powers' check-list of liaisons and hook-ups has been carefully completed, minus the expected generational incest I expected going in. So the poaching occurs with the other guy's family as the prey.
Lisa Ann is more of a guest star than naturally dominant figure here, married to Stone and getting to sample a Davis daughter. Running gag of James Deen (Evan's son and misspelled in the credits as if he were the great James Dean) as a peeping tom jacking off at open doorways while watching couples hump inside is lame, but otherwise the light-hearted romp is easy to take. Closest thing to incestsinvolves step (or foster) sibling Miko Sinz, whose Korean parentage is stressed so as to avoid an assumption of blood relations.
I have yet to watch the follow-up in this series, but on paper it seems rather strange in bringing back Davis and Stone with entirely new families.
