ManPlay 8 Review

Reviewed by Porn Pundit  on  8/29/2003

Okay, I like the idea. Men should look like men and not Ken dolls, so I like the idea of using actors who look as if you might actually meet them. I also like the idea of eliminating contrived settings and situations and going right for the sex. But you cannot just throw some men together, run the cameras, and hope you come out with good porn.

You sense you are in trouble from the start. The first scene is of rather routine blowjobs (blower kneeling, blowee standing). We see cute little Trip (young-looking guy with soul beard) blowing a very nice cock belonging to Chris, our hairiest actor. Weak cumshot, but Trip is gorgeous and looks amazingly innocent. Owen is probably the best-looking actor. He has a great face, a tight fit-but-not-bulky body, nicely pale, a fine cock and perfect ass. If only he didn't have a streets-of-London-1978 Mohawk! It is distracting and just looks stupid. At the beginning you will see him skull-fuck Jake. Jake is a Dred Scott wannabe with black earrings he seems to have stolen from a housewife in some 1968 time warp. Will looks like the young husband next door and has a nice big cock that Devon does a good job sucking.

The trouble here and throughout is that seldom is anything finished. Just as you get into watching two guys go at it, the action cuts away. It is like coitus interruptus of the eyes.

On it goes: I suck you a while, now you suck me, now I take a break and jack off in the background. You get a nice surprise when Owen, who comes across as a top with attitude, chows down on cock with a vengeance. The boy can deep throat like a champ.

Your first fuck comes 15 minutes in. Owen fucks Parker, who seems to have the horniest holes in the tape. Parker's eyes glaze over as he takes spit and cock in his mouth while being fucked. Will does a good job fucking Parker's right cheek. Eventually, Parker pushes Owen away (WHY OH WHY?!) and is finished off by hairy Chris. Owen goes to fuck Ben (preppy-looking guy with fake shamrock tattoo on belly) Then there is a dissolve away before the fucking is finished! Why?!

And so it goes. An hour into the tape Owen finally gets fucked (Oh, that ass!) but not plowed the way you want to see by now. Later in the tape you see Parker fucked by Chris once more while getting a three-man facial bukkake (c'mon Ben, we're waiting!) which might have made a good final scene but we cut to more boring by-the-book blowjobs. We do finally get to see cute Trip's beautiful rosebud being fingered and loved by Jake, but again we need to see it properly plowed. It builds up to nothing. The very last scene is of Jake and Owen jacking off together -- anticlimactic, to say the least.

I watch mostly to see Owen's cute tight white ass flexing as he fucks skull or ass and I love to see his nose buried in bush as he deep-throats. I enjoy Will's nice cock and Trip's cute face and asshole, but nothing gets properly used. A script might not be such a bad thing after all.

All in all, it's worth owning, but there is better porn out there. Buy it if you find it cheap.