1942 Indeed!
This movie is full of cheap thugs, gin-soaked dames and mob gorillas!

Between plotting deadly schemes, guzzling hooch and leading a double life, our heroine "Jenna" is tangled in a payback scheme to find her husband's killer and secure her fate in an organized crime ring full of ne'er-do-wells. There are some sexy moments in this movie and some physically-impressive ones too, but it mostly left me laughing. "Jenna Confidential," with the shocking truth that changed Hollywood forever, is a wacky, Chicago gangster, semi-hardcore film produced by Jenna Jameson and Justin Sterling, the once married Club Jenna dream team. And the shocking truth? Well, it's a twist at the end of the movie, salacious certainly for 1942 convention, or at least... it would be if the first 50 mins weren't a pornographic movie.

Club Jenna movies, especially ones directed and performed by Jenna and Justin, are normally a treat for ladies and couples because they are stylized, have plenty of real orgasms and use technical elements to promote the visual fantasy. Jenna Confidential certainly has the visual appeal (or attempt) I've grown to expect, and this time it's lots of black and white smoky scenes that look like a cross between "I Love Lucy" and Hitchcock's "Notorious." But wait, there's more! There are magical-like transitions into color for all of the sex scenes- a motif that is more powerful when it moves the plot forward in things like Wizard of Oz and Pleasantville. But, I suppose, porn is just the Baskin Robbins of the film industry, and in lieu of content filmmakers, just chose from one of the 32 flavors to paint their movies with. I appreciate what little attention to aesthetic and detail is given, I just don't understand how in 2009, high budget pornographic production value doesn't at least improve to the level of art student film.

Nevertheless, this film does have some really good things going for it, so here they are! The 2nd sex scene with Randy Spears and English adult star Ashley Long is great! They have a great connection through the entire scene and it is a welcome relief after the first scene, a cold and cumbersome threesome that includes Michelle Michaels, two thugs, an impressive airborne Eiffel Tower and a double pop in the face. Long and Spears slip into a little foot fetish in their foreplay, I laughed once when a whole stockinged foot was shoved in Randy's mouth, and then again when both feet were pressed into his cheeks while he moaned. But I respect all fetishes, my mouth does not respect the taste of foot, however. But I went back and watched the scene again because it was sexually honest, my favorite in the movie by far.

80's porn star Sharon Kane brings a great character performance to the table with her flask wielding busy-body who is secretly running a ring of cross dressing tough girls. If it weren't for all that destructive Carol Burnett-like plastic surgery, her sex scenes might be more appealing, but some things just look painful. She has an amazing body and a fair scene with Jenna, where it looks like she has the best orgasm of her life, but the way she holds her body is strange and all I see is a drugged up actress trying to keep up. Jenna does manage to tame some of the off-putting phoniness out of her performance, but I liked her a lot better before she got naked.

Despite it's attempted empowering "gangster girl" power trip-thing, where our female heroines toast "the only good men are dead men," this film has too few great sex scenes to give it a good rating. But the film does walk a fine line into my favorite kind of pornography… Campy! The script is so silly at times, and the plot so winding that I can't help but like this movie for a whole different reason. All the men are Dukes, Vicks or Mikes, all the girls are "Broads" or "Dames" and between prostitutes drugging their Johns and nasty fights over their mansions, this movie will shoot you through a pillow, make you want to laugh, and say then sigh, "what?"

The best news is, the end of the film has a surprise ending...and then it's completely upstaged by Jenna putting the entire neck of a champagne bottle into her vagina! I love porn.