It’s become like an annual holiday season tradition: Axel Braun’s unleashing of his latest super-extravagant superhero send-up. He had no small task cut out for himself in aiming to at least hit the same bar as last year’s insanely fun AVN Best Parody winner Deadpool XXX, but dammit if this barbed farce of last spring’s much-maligned big screen Captain Marvel doesn’t deliver the gut-busting goods aplenty.

It of course helps the cause that Braun brought back Seth Gamble to reprise his AVN Best Actor-garnering Deadpool role (albeit in a much smaller capacity this time out), not to mention that the widespread panning of the source picture afforded the parody maestro—whose 60th XXX spoof this marks—ample opportunity to outshine, rather than merely capitalize upon, its general entertainment value.

Kenzie Taylor (Gamble’s real-life girlfriend, it so happens) clearly relishes every second of her breakout turn in CMX’s leading role, for which she reportedly went through six weeks of training in order to execute its complex fight sequences—her eyes glimmer with smirking glee as she deadpans the continuous stream of rich one-liners Braun gives her, e.g. “If you wanted someone that shows no emotion, you should have cast Brie Larson!” and “Yes I’m crying, goddamit, and now I’m screaming too! How else am I supposed to get a Best Actress nomination?” (Did this meta-joke help her actually accomplish that goal, you ask? Maybe it did and maybe it did.)

She’s aided adroitly along the way by supporting players Quinton James, Ana Foxxx and Tyler Knight, the latter supplying a running gag of repeat, left-field references by his Nick Fury (or perhaps a mixed-up Samuel L. Jackson who’s forgotten what movie he’s in?) to Pulp Fiction. Also, be sure not to miss the song that plays over the end credits, as crooned by cast member Lacy Lennon—it’s an out-and-out side-clencher.

Lennon appears in the movie as Jean Grey, who joins Captain Marvel and Deadpool for the final and easily most sizzling of the six sex scenes here, although the girl/girl between Taylor and Foxxx, and Taylor’s pairing with trans superstar Aubrey Kate—a first for a major Braun project—are both of superlative note as well.

Until Braun’s next epic outing, Captain Marvel XXX makes for a fine 60th-entry milestone in his parody canon to keep fans eminently sated.