Deep in the Valley(2009)

SHORT VERSION:
After Carl’s budding romance with Bambi goes sideways and Lester finds himself experiencing nothing but pain every time he tries to make a porn fantasy come true, the duo decide to pay Diamond Jim a visit at his mansion to ask him to return them to their reality, having opted to end this “meaningful journey” that Diamond Jim has put them on. They show up at his place while a party is going on (and Bambi is one of the guests there), but they soon come under attack from Detective Rod Cannon and his subordinate, Susie Diablo, and they have a fight that ends when Cannon tackles both Carl and Lester into the mansion’s swimming pool right in front of Diamond Jim and Bambi.

Carl and Lester ask Diamond Jim to send them back home because they haven’t figured out why they are here and they both feel that they haven’t learned a thing. Diamond Jim thus makes one of his Diamond Zone porn booths appear for them to use to return home, but after Carl exits the pool, he shares a long look with Bambi, then runs up to her and embraces her. Diamond Jim remarks that it looks like he did learn something here after all, and Carl replies that he has; he learned what true love really is. He and Bambi then profess their love for each other, but when they share a kiss, Carl suddenly disappears in a flash of light, and the next thing he knows, he is sent crashing back into his apartment through the roof. Diamond Jim then explains to Bambi that the reason Carl vanished is because he broke the one rule of Deep Valley: You can’t fall in love here, and if you do, you are exiled.

Lester is still keen on leaving, explaining to Diamond Jim that he understands now that living in a reality straight out of a porn film isn’t as great as he thought it would be. Diamond Jim then reveals to him that he is his (hitherto unknown) father, shocking Lester so much that he faints. After he regains consciousness that night, he gladly accepts his place as the Prince of Deep Valley, and he finally starts to receive all of the sex with hot women that he can handle.

Soon after his return, Carl breaks up with his domineering fiancée Tracy, but his attempts to fix the now-broken porn booth so he can go back to Bambi ultimately prove futile and he sinks into a depression, thinking that he has lost her forever. Fortunately, his depression doesn’t last long when Bambi successfully pleads with Diamond Jim to let her go and be with him in his reality and Lester facilitates her transfer. After Carl and Bambi happily reunite, Lester talks to Carl through his TV set, telling him that he told him that he would always have his back, as well as informing him that he is staying in Deep Valley. After Lester tells Carl that he will come back to visit him at Christmas, the screen shuts off. Carl and Bambi then start to get intimate on his bed.

Detective Cannon gets his comeuppance for his treatment of Carl and Lester when Diamond Jim fires him from Deep Valley’s police force and later banishes him to their reality, and he is last seen working Lester’s old job as a liquor store clerk.

LONG VERSION:
In the short time that Carl (Brendan Hines) and Lester (Chris Pratt) stay in Deep Valley, Carl finds himself nurturing a genuine mutual romantic attraction to Bambi Cummings (Rachel Specter), a top-notch porn star who has been questioning her existence in Deep Valley lately and wants more out of life than just daily sex. Meanwhile, Lester tries to make some of his pornographic fantasies come true, but they all end up getting ruined by Susie Diablo (Blanca Soto) – who works for the Deep Valley cop Rod Cannon (Scott Caan), who is out to arrest the guys – and usually end with him getting hit in the genitals.

One night, in an effort to find a way back to their reality, Lester leads Carl to a party being held at the home of Busta Nut (Tracy Morgan) because Busta has a collection of old booth-style games in the basement and one of them might be able to send them back home. After they gain access to the party by Lester pretending to be Busta’s friend, Rumpa Thumpa, Lester starts hanging out with Busta while Carl heads for the basement to check out the booths. However, Bambi is in attendance and spots him heading down there, and wondering what he is up to, she follows after him. She catches him being felt up by two female partygoers and not offering any true resistance to their advances, and thinking that Carl is being unfaithful to her, she leaves the party in tears (which is a new emotion for her, as no one in Deep Valley seems to cry about anything). Carl finds the booths and notices that one looks just like the Diamond Zone porn booth that Lester got that brought them to Deep Valley, so he goes back upstairs, gets Lester’s attention, and brings him down to the booths. However, Carl learns that he will be returning home alone; Lester has decided that he wants to remain in Deep Valley, feeling that he belongs here. After assuring Carl that they can use the booth here and the one back in their reality to visit each other anytime they like, Carl steps inside. However, the booth turns out to contain just a sex-themed video game, and then, they come under attack from Dick (Michael C. Kricfalusi) and Lance (Tim Trobec), two detective comrades of Rod Cannon. They get the better of the detectives and flee upstairs, but Dick and Lance follow after them and draw their guns on Carl and Lester in front of the partygoers. Suddenly, it is revealed that everyone at the party is carrying various kinds of firearms when they all pull them out and aim them at Dick and Lance, and the duo react to this by fleeing the house. Busta then slaps Lester on the back, which causes the grill on his upper teeth to fall out and blow his cover, but Carl and Lester quickly make their escape before anyone can do anything to them.

As they walk off for elsewhere, Lester tells Carl that he knows of another possible exit from this world, but an exasperated Carl remarks that he is trapped here forever with him. He then tells Lester that he never should’ve listened to him, then insults him for being a liquor store employee and for dragging him into this porn-fueled world before call him the biggest loser he knows. Lester retorts that he is just being a big baby about everything before complaining about how he should be getting “two at a time, twice a day”, but he has to deal with him and his whining all the time and getting regularly hurt by Susie and others in Deep Valley. The two friends then tell each other to get stuffed before going their separate ways.

Carl returns to the sorority house where Bambi resides and finds a forlorn Bambi sitting out in the back yard. When he approaches her, Bambi asks him how he could betray her the way he did tonight, then brings up how she saw him with the girls who were fawning over him. Carl tries to explain himself, but Bambi refuses to hear it, telling Carl that he hurt her and that she never wants to see him again. Meanwhile, Lester steals a pizza delivery car and goes to a random house occupied by two gorgeous women to try to make a pizza delivery fantasy happen, but the pizza guy notices the theft of his vehicle not long after and contacts Cannon, who calls for backup because he fully believes that Carl and Lester did this. Susie finds Lester first and hits him in the testicles again, and then the pool cleaner comes in through the front door and takes the women away from Lester. His presence also draws Susie’s attention, which gives Lester a chance to slip out the door, steal the pool guy’s van, and drive off. He drives up to the sorority house in the morning and finds Carl sitting outside the front of it and remembering his times with Bambi, and he tells Carl that he has had enough of this place. Carl comes into the van with him, and they head over to Diamond Jim’s (Christopher McDonald) mansion to make a direct appeal to him to end this “journey” that he put them on (Diamond Jim had told them shortly after they first arrived in Deep Valley that they were here for a reason and that they had to go on a “journey” to find out what that reason was) and return them to their reality.

When they get there, they find a party in full swing, and we see that Bambi is among the partiers, but she is feeling sad about how things went down with Carl and now thinks that she has made a mistake. Carl and Lester dress up as pool cleaners to infiltrate the place, but their charade goes kaput fast when they lock eyes with Susie, who is also there. They run up a staircase to get away from her, but find Dick and Lance waiting for them at the top of it. They bull through the detectives and send them rolling down the stairs and into Susie, and then they start to look around for a place to hide. However, just as they find a room to hide in, Susie shows up behind them and knocks their heads together to daze them. Cannon then comes in behind her, and the two duos duke it out with each other until Carl and Lester run out the room’s patio door, which leads to the swimming pool. However, Cannon soon tackles them both into the water right in front of Diamond Jim and Bambi.

Diamond Jim demands to know what is going on, and Cannon replies that he is here to take Carl and Lester back to jail. Carl and Lester tell Diamond Jim that they just want to go home because neither of them can figure out why they are here and they felt that they haven’t learned a single thing during their stay. Accepting their choice, Diamond Jim makes a Diamond Zone porn booth appear near them, and Carl and Lester start to make their way out of the pool to go into it. Cannon voices his opposition to this decision, prompting Diamond Jim to ask him what crime these guys have ever committed. When Rod admits that he actually doesn’t know for sure what they have done, Diamond Jim calls him the sorriest cop on the force and then fires him.

Lester is ready to return home, but after Carl shares one long look with Bambi, he runs over to her and embraces her. Diamond Jim remarks that it looks like he learned something important here after all, and Carl replies that he did; he learned what true love really is. Carl and Bambi then give each other their love, but when they kiss, Carl suddenly disappears in a flash of light. The next thing he knows, he is sent crashing back into his apartment through the roof. Diamond Jim informs Bambi that the reason why Carl vanished is because he broke the one rule of Deep Valley: You can’t fall in love here, and if you do, you are exiled. Diamond Jim then talks to Lester and asks him if he really wants to go, and Lester tells him that he definitely does and that his time in Deep Valley has taught him that living in a reality straight out of a porn film isn’t as great as he thought it would be, plus he has had enough of all of the abuse that his testicles have taken ever since he got here. Diamond Jim then tells him that there is one thing he ought to know before he goes: He is his (hitherto unknown) father. Surprised beyond words by this news, Lester faints moments later.

After Carl discovers that Lester’s porn booth no longer works, he starts trying to repair it so he can return to Bambi. While he is doing so, his fiancée, Tracy (Charlotte Salt), comes stomping in through his front door and orders him to get ready for a get-together they are having with her parents today before telling him that, tomorrow, he WILL explain to her why there is a hole in his ceiling and why he has been missing for two days. After taking a moment to think about Bambi and how she is definitely a much better woman than Tracy, Carl finally grows a spine and essentially tells Tracy that their relationship is over, having had enough of her overbearing and domineering behavior, then makes her back out of his apartment and slams the door in her face. Unfortunately, despite his newfound self-confidence, fixing the booth ultimately proves to be impossible, and he sinks into a depression, thinking that he has lost Bambi forever. Meanwhile, Bambi pleads with Diamond Jim to let her go to Carl, and after she gets some support from her sorority house mother, Autumn Bliss (Denise Richards), Diamond Jim tells her that he will see what he can do for her. Just then, Lester regains consciousness, and after Diamond Jim lets him know that he is the Prince of Deep Valley, Lester tells him that he loves him, essentially deciding to stay put. Suddenly, Cannon appears and tries to shoot Lester, but Diamond Jim snaps his fingers and makes him disappear into the unknown.

That night, Carl turns on the TV in his bedroom and sees that it is airing the Diamond Zone, and Lester appears and shows Carl clips of the sex scenes that he has recently done. He then brings Bambi onto the screen, and Carl averts his eyes away from her, not wanting to be reminded of what he has lost. However, Lester snaps his fingers and makes Bambi disappear, and moments later, she comes falling through the roof of Carl’s bedroom, where she bounces off his bed and onto the floor. After she gets up, Carl expresses his disbelief over how she is here and asks her how this can be, and she tells him that, when his journey ended, it turned out that hers had just begun; he came into her life and showed her what she was looking for, and Diamond Jim told her that, if she wanted true love, she had to go after it herself. Carl tells her that he is surprised that she gave up her life in Deep Valley to be with him, but she replies that she would do anything to be with him. They then start to kiss passionately before lying down together on the bed.

Lester then gets Carl’s attention again through the TV and reminds him of how he once told him when they were kids that he would always have his back, and he informs him that he is staying in Deep Valley for good because he is finally experiencing all the sex with hot women that he can handle. Carl thanks him for sending Bambi to him, and Lester tells him that he will come back to visit him at Christmas before the TV screen shuts off. Carl and Bambi then waste little time in getting intimate.

After the credits, we find out that Diamond Jim had banished Cannon to Carl’s and Lester’s reality when we see him working Lester’s old job at the liquor store.