Still photographer turned director Alan is not known for the quality of his scripts, and this "who cares?" riff on the classic fairy tale is no exception. Saving his ass, as always, is the casting of solid femme talent.
The iconic details of "Cinderella" are largely jettisoned: no glass slipper, with the pursuit of Cinderella following a chance meeting consisting merely of posting her on Social Media; not even a ball or a "be home by midnight" warning. Instead AJ Applegate as the put-upon step-child with a most tantalizing big behind merely meets her "Princess Charming" out jogging in the formm of lovely Mia Malkova. The two of them exchange lines from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" but Alan even misses the chance to have Mia (reciting Romeo's part) be butch or cross-dresser or even impersonating a man in true Shakespearean fashion.
No, he takes the simple-minded route, emphasizing ad nauseum how poor little Cinderella (named AJ, as all the characters just use their porn names even though the credits list hopefully (and misleadingly) the fairy tale character names) is mistreated by her step-siblings and very campy (and beautiful with latter-day trademark purple hair) step-mom Jelena Jensen.
Gimmick is from producer's favorite bag, incest made okay by step-relationship. So all three girls are step-children o Jelena, none of her blood daughters and all three husbands dead and buried. She's a big movie star, though an interview (Alan the director is the "gotcha!" interview) posits her as a has-been who hasn't worked for four years. Malkova plays a current top mainstream star named, of course, Mia Malkova.
AJ wants to be a stage actress, dreaming of going to acting school in New York City, where her BFF Karlee Grey lives. Grey literally phones in her role via Skype, and an idle mention of "fairy godmother" is the closest she comes to playing such a role. Alan truly cheats the audience by having No Sex for Karlee, who doesn't even appear on the same coast as any of the other characters.
One clever notion that I enjoyed was having AJ be an extreme sub, so all the sexual domination by the other three meted out to here are merely cause for AJ orgasms, an interesting twist on the fairy tale. Jensen meanly makes her wait before being allowed to have an orgasm, but fan will enjoy the build-up as anilingus from Jelena applied to AJ's ample posterior is a show-stopper here.
