Carmen Electra adds a touch of glamour - albeit in a bra-popping page 3 kind of a way - to British comedy I Want Candy. It's a "good-natured slice of suburban smut" following two film school students (Tom Riley and Tom Burke) as they try to make their magnum opus. It got the thumbs up from critics but paying punters were more excited by Hot Fuzz and the finely chiselled abs of 300 Spartans.

Sugar And Spice

It's no surprise that screenwriters Peter Hewitt and Phil Hughes come across like a couple of sniggering schoolboys (complete with acne) in The Making Of I Want Candy. On the other hand it's hard to imagine that the original draft of the script was "far crasser and far more unrealistic" as Tom Riley puts it. He adds that it also "lacked some of the heart" and so began a long process of script development - not to mention an apparent burgeoning of bitter resentment on the part of Hewitt and Hughes ("They had to keep us away from the actors..."). American helmer Stephen Surjik chips in to say that Electra is "a fine actor" and the woman herself tells us, "It's a film about making your dreams come true," stopping just short of licking her lips and blowing a kiss to camera.

Mel C is one of the unlikely guests to turn up at the film's premiere in London. A two-minute vox pops from the red carpet reveals that her porn star name would be Fluffy Tuffley (adding the name of her first pet to the street where she grew up), which perhaps will come in handy if the Spice Girls reunion doesn't pay off. Anyway, this report is only slightly more edifying that Baggy And Joe's 10 Tips On Making A Film, which in reality, is an extended trailer for the film.

Getting Fruity

Thankfully there are more laughs to be had in 11 minutes of deleted scenes. There's more from Eddie Marsan who pitches the porn version of On Golden Pond (!) and Mackenzie Crook, who dispenses some brilliant oneliners as pretentious film professor Dulberg. He tries desperately to get down with the kids, or: "In the words of Vanilla Ice, 'Stop, collaborate and listen...'"

Public speaking doesn't appear to come naturally to Tom Burke either. Half of an 8-minute blooper reel is devoted to his line fluffing and there's a bizarre slow-mo outtake of Electra struggling to smash a tomato with a hammer at close range. It feels like a sexual fantasy dreamed up by Salvador Dali.

Okay, so this DVD comes with more padding than one of Electra's wonder-bras, but those who fled in trepidation of "another bawdy Brit-com" the first time around might be surprised by the sweetness of Candy.

I Want Candy DVD is released on Monday 20th August 2007.