House of Morecock, The Review

Reviewed by dvdevious  on  1/12/2003

This was a VERY disappointing effort from someone as talented as Joe Phillips. Considering the potential of anime, "The House of Morecock" just falls way short of tolerable. The animation is minimal -- and not the "charming" minimal we've grown to love in anime generally, but a cheap-looking, amateurish minimal that detracts from any merit the artwork might otherwise have. Artistically, the boys are cute but their dicks are ridiculously big. The film has multiple framing stories--an annoying live-action couple who are watching the "Morecock Marathon", and an annoying Feirstein impersonator who sets up the stories. Each of the episodes is mericifully short, but that isn't really a positive merit. Each episode is structurally identical: Our Hero goes somewhere (to Scotland, to Sleep, to Mexico, to whatever) and meets one or more hot guys and they have oral sex and then fuck. Gets a bit monotonous when it's REAL people; when it's ink-on-acetate, it's deadly.

I thought that "House of Morecock" would be fun and silly--a porn cartoon was too good to pass up. If only I'd had the strength.