James Avalon has been Sweet Sinner's main director for several years now since founder Nica Noelle left for greener pastures, and has done a commendable job of carrying on her tradition of "real lovemaking, real orgasms", but in the contrived "Sibling Rivalry" he directs his cast back into the tired exaggeration of faked porn ecstasy. It's a shame, wasting a good cast and decent premise.
Yes, all four sex vignettes are dominated by actresses shrieking and wailing like mad water buffaloes, hardly the sensual approach Nica pioneered, but clearly in step with today's audience preference for gonzo. Other than the non-sex, non-role for Kylie Ireland as mom, Avalon also opts for relatively flat-chested women, again in line with current movement away from sweater girls toward jail-bait casting.
Current superstar blonde Karla Kush stars as the bad sibling, intent on stealing away every boy or man attracted to brunette sis Jodi Taylor. Jodi is actually the central role, but Kush has an extra sex scene and is far more popular at the virtual Adult Entertainment box office (in these post-theatrical decadent times).
That is basically the entire plot line from writer Justin Thyme, who is credited twice on screen, but IMDb used the unreliable DVD box boiler plate credits which sloppily give Avalon scripting honors - I will endeavor to correct this mistake. There's a Florida porn actor who spells his stage name Justin Tyme, but I believe that's a different fellow. Or perhaps it is a pseudonym Avalon has taken up using on screen for scripts?
Besides the outrageously overdone sex action, in which both star Xander Corvus as a boyfriend (who humps both siblings, natch) and daddy Steven St. Croix adopt a rat-a- tat-tat thrusting style, which nets the fit Xander at least a thousand whomps in the opening sex scene and becomes tedious in the extreme, film suffers from a repetitious contrivance that unbelievably has all the sex (except a Corvus flashback back at school) taking place surreptitiously at the Ireland/St. Croix mansion, undetected by other cast members despite the high-decibel screaming of the girls.
That mansion is none other than my favorite porn location, the house with oval portal doors & spiral staircase immortalized by Nica Noelle in "Immoral Proposal" and dozens of other XXX films. It is perhaps the best element of "Sibling Rivalry", with excellent shots exploiting the beauty of the staircase and providing a beautiful white- on-white backdrop to the non-sex action. Two of the sex scenes are staged claustrophobically in a tiny bathroom, a dumb stunt Avalon pulls off for no apparent reason.
The Corvus flashback having sex with Kush, observed by heartbroken Taylor who thought he was HER boyfriend, has the gals in cute (fetish) schoolgirl uniforms, squarely exploiting Avalon's currently lucrative "Student Bodies" series, and that vignette could very well have been shot for SB and then spun off for this feature. Kush and Taylor are high-energy performers, too high this time, and as in Avalon's next Sweet Sinner film, "Brothers & Sisters", the make-up crew is deficient, leaving poor Jodi in tight closeup with numerous visible sores on her groin -quite unappetizing and exactly what a makeup staff is hired to hide - same mistake occurred in the latter film for Remy LaCroix.
At first I found the use of same location and same parents (Kylie & Steven) in two quite different films back to back interesting, but ultimately just in-joke territory. Steven has black hair this time and grey/white hair the next to differentiate his two lecherous characters (he gets to hump the scene stealing Adriana Chechik here, with her glamorous styling as guest star upstaging the two title heroines), while Kylie is stuck in a stupid assignment just bawling out her offspring for their rude remarks.
One more anomaly: Jane Hamilton aka Veronica Hart, the all-time Adult great, is credited on screen as production manager, a role she essayed on several earlier Sweet Sinner shoots, but someone has given her credit to a "Jane Hamiltion Cirigliano" caterer in IMDb, a mistake I will try to correct. It is possible that caterer might even be Veronica as well, as Cirigliano used to have a company named Hart Tock Entertainment. It was bad enough in the '70s, but the porn industry continues to create pointless confusion with its never-ending use of pseudonyms or worse the omission of credits altogether (e.g., Girlfriends' uncredited directors & crew or the practice of leaving most non-sex roles uncredited).
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